Annual Poll: Your Top Ten Favorite European Cities!

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Jul 31st, 2013, 01:20 PM

PalenQ

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Annual Poll: Your Top Ten Favorite European Cities!

If asked to rank what you top ten European cities are what would they be - rank them in order from one to ten and then we will tally up points by inverting the rankings - 10 points for you top city; 9 for your #2, etc.

I'll start:

1- Amsterdam
2- London
3 - Paris
4- Berlin
5 - Rome
6- Florence
7 - Venice
8- Bruges
9- Barcelona
10 -Prague

ET TU?

Jul 31st, 2013, 01:29 PM

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Why just big cities?
Only Venice would be in my top 10 destinations in Europe.

Jul 31st, 2013, 01:33 PM

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not just big cities - any city or town - Rothenburg could be one or some small village - me I like big cities others may not.

thanks for the comment and to clarify!

Jul 31st, 2013, 01:47 PM

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Cities:
Amsterdam
Paris
London
Venice
Lisbon
Florence
Bologna
Stockholm
Santiago de Compostela
Siena

Jul 31st, 2013, 01:54 PM

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Istanbul
Berlin
Sarajevo
Rovinj
Granada
Cadiz
Lecce
Genoa
Vilnius
Antwerp

That's the 2013 list!

Jul 31st, 2013, 01:56 PM

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I agree with Bob. I don’t know why everybody is so obsessed with cities. The more that I visit, the more I am starting to want to avoid them. I realize that cities are usually the transportation, cultural & culinary hub of a country but more & more I find that my tolerance level for the traffic, crowds & noise of a city is diminishing. And the sites & museums of most major centers are so over-crowded during the prime tourist times of the year that they have zero charm & increasingly less & less appeal for me. Maybe I am just getting old & grouchy but I am starting to prefer the tiny villages & the remote places more.

Anyway . . .

Paris
Ravello
Sevilla
Vienna
Granada
Siracusa
Edinburgh
Sopron
Todi
Modica

These are the places that I would return to.

Ian

Jul 31st, 2013, 01:58 PM

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Barcelona
Paris
Valencia
Venice
Madrid
Stockholm
Berlin
Rome
Amsterdam
Rome

Jul 31st, 2013, 02:20 PM

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I'm only doing 5 cos 10 is overkill. The city at number 10 is going to be pretty meh compared with no 1. So:-

Barcelona
Oslo
Venice
Verona
London

Jul 31st, 2013, 02:46 PM

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Barcelona
Cascais
Paris
Istanbul (the European side for the sake of this survery)
San Sebastian/Donostia
Cefalu
Krakow
Prague
Sevilla
Gibraltar (not really but so many people can't abide it)

Jul 31st, 2013, 02:49 PM

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Venice
Bruges
Salzburg
Verona
Prague
Edinburgh
Bamberg
Bath
Lyon
Copenhagen

Jul 31st, 2013, 02:59 PM

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1. Paris
2. Prague
3. Salzburg
4. Stresa
5. Venice
6. Piran
7. Dresden
8. Cesky Krumlov
9. Berlin
10. Vienna

Jul 31st, 2013, 03:33 PM

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OK--I will play:

1. The Italian lakes
2. Tuscan hill towns
3. The Amalfi coast
4. The Salzkammergut of Austria
5. Venice
6 Sicily
7. Portovenere
8. The Dalmatian coast
9. The Dolomites
10. San Sebastian