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?

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

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!

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

Istanbul
Berlin
Sarajevo
Rovinj
Granada
Cadiz
Lecce
Genoa
Vilnius
Antwerp

That's the 2013 list!

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

Barcelona
Paris
Valencia
Venice
Madrid
Stockholm
Berlin
Rome
Amsterdam
Rome

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

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)

Venice
Bruges
Salzburg
Verona
Prague
Edinburgh
Bamberg
Bath
Lyon
Copenhagen

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

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

1. Naples
2. Naples
3. Naples
4. Naples
5. Naples
6. Naples
7. Naples
8. Naples
9. Naples
10.NAPOLI

"I don’t know why everybody is so obsessed with cities"

Because it is what some of us prefer.
Small towns bore me after a day.

Top 5

1.London
2.Paris
3.Ghent
4.Lisbon
5.Madrid

Paris
London
Budapest
Assisi
Bath
Mont St Michel
Krakow
lLake Bled
Berlin
Ronda

So hard to rank, loved them all for vastly different reasons!

Rome,
Amsterdam,
Dubrovnik
Venice,
Cinque Terre,
Firenze,
Paris,
Capri,
The Amalfi Coast,
The Italian Lakes,

Paris
Berlin
Istanbul
Beaune
Barcelona
Brugge
Venice
Montepulciano
Rome
Sarlat

Bruges
Krakow
Bergen
Salamanca
Florence
York
Amsterdam
Copenhagen
Dublin
Prague

Paris
Barcelona
Venice
Vienna
Italian Lakes
Amalfi coast, esp. Positano
Stockholm
Tuscany
Garmisch-Partenkirchen and surrounds
Dubrovnik

Dublin
Paris
London
Munich
Garmisch-Partenkirchen
Florence
Edinburgh
Cinque Terre
Salzburg
Ghent

1 Paris
2 Paris
3 Paris

((I))

1 Edinburgh (and repeat)

London-3x
Paris
Istanbul-

Paris
Vienna
Munich
Prague
Aero Island
Stockholm
Budapest
Salzburg
Sarlat
London

Berlin
Rome
Edinburgh
London
Strasbourg
Frankfurt
Hamburg
Büdingen
Brussels
Antwerp

Paris
Budapest
London
Rome
Bratislava

Hard to find one original thought in the bunch. I'll give bobthenavigator top marks for Portovenere. All the rest pretty much fit the 'most commonly visited' list for Europe.

Nothing wrong with that of course if you like being common.

I have not visited enough cities in Europe to make a sensible comparison.

Venice is our favourite
Rome is fun.

Improviser - the title of the post is favourite CITIES. I'm sure everyone could be quirky and original if the brief had been to come up with towns and villages, or any place in Europe regardless of population or designation as a municipality. You do say some ill-thought out things in your efforts to be crushing.

I love being common... It suits me really well. I am also down to earth and friendly.

Some people prefer mean, smug, and self absorbed... Another perfectly valid choice.

French Riviera- loveeee
Barcelona
Amsterdam

I haven't been to a ton of places, but those are my 3 faves so far

>>Improviser on Aug 3, 13 at 1:14am

>>Hard to find one original thought in the bunch. I'll give bobthenavigator top marks for Portovenere. All the >>rest pretty much fit the 'most commonly visited' list for Europe.

>>Nothing wrong with that of course if you like being common.

What an uncommonly sad way to try and elevate one's self esteem.

Barcelona
Paris
Venice
Edinburgh
Prague
St Andrews
Vienna
Bruges
Tallinn
Salzburg

Brugge
Quedlinburg
Bamberg
Prague
Sarlat
Seville
Berlin
London
Krakow
Salzburg

Posting from Helsinki where it is currently (6pm) 24 degrees. Sun is shining ,water is sparkling and everyone is out enjoying the weather. There can't be anywhere nicer in the world!

Posting from Helsinki where it is currently (6pm) 24 degrees. Sun is shining ,water is sparkling and everyone is out enjoying the weather. There can't be anywhere nicer in the world!

So in six months, it is not your favorite city?

I haven't been to enough places to pick ten, but cities I've had a great time in include (in no particular order)

Antwerp
Amsterdam
Brussels
London
Prague
Paris
Rotterdam

LOL, some of you are truly challenged. I can't say in what way in a public forum.

RM67, here is a list of cities in just France:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...s_(2010_census)

Now how many of them do you think anyone is going to list here? Do not stick your foot in your mouth and suggest you know whether I am referring to cities or towns/villages.

"I'm sure everyone could be quirky and original if the brief had been to come up with towns and villages,"

No, RM67, everyone could not be original EVEN just coming up with CITIES to choose from. What you get is the COMMON list of well known places.

What I wrote is not "ill-thought out", it is carefully thought out. What I wrote is not intended to be "crushing", it is intended to make people THINK. Do not presume to know what my intentions are, you aren't a mind reader. If you want to know what my intentions are, ask. Otherwise you end up with footinmouthitis.

WHY do people list the same places over and over? WHY do people only visit the same places as everyone else does? Yes we should all visit Rome or Venice (examples only), they are worthwhile and have a lot to offer the visitor. But WHY do individuals not also visit other places of individual interest to them?

WHY do you not see someone posting on this forum and saying (an example only), 'here is my planned visit to Europe. I intend to visit 10 places where Picasso lived and worked, as I am fascinated by his work.' That list would be far different than the average list would it not.

Most people go where the herd goes, pure and simple. The word 'common' has a meaning. What is it? In the terms we are talking about here, it refers to going to places where people COMMONLY go. Nothing wrong with that if you like being common. One of the masses who does what the masses do.

But maybe, just maybe, it might be interesting to go off the beaten track that everyone talks about wanting to go off and never does. It isn't about doing so being better, just different, not common.

Come up with a list based on something other than you've heard of them all and others go there. Come up with something ORIGINAL.

I recall one guy from Australian (on another forum) who decided he wanted to bowl a game in a bowling alley in every state in the continental USA. He posted to ask for a list of peoples' favourite bowling alleys in their home state. You may or may not think much of that ambition but that's irrelevant. At least he had an original idea.

Now compare that to this thread. No offense intended PalenQ but what would the lists you got look like if instead you had posted the question, 'What are your favourite cities in your HOME country?'

If you read 10 responses to that by Italians and saw that 8 out of 10 had listed Lecce, that might cause you to wonder why you had never heard of Lecce. Do you think Lecce is going to turn up on this current thread? I think not and yet it is an incredible city to visit. But it isn't COMMONLY listed in 'the top 10 of Europe'.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/ar...st-world-.html

However insulted people might feel, the fact is most people are tourists who tour the usual places. Few are truly independent travellers who think for themselves independently. But anyone can change that for themselves at any time. Just stop doing what is COMMON and look for yourself at places to go rather than following the herd all the time.

Go to Italy(again, only an example), start in Rome, hire a car and drive south for 2 weeks. See what you find.

Improviser... Your list would be fascinating. What is it?