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