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Europe's Top Ten Landmarks?
What do you think are Europe's top landmarks - buildings or towers or whatever? Things that everyone knows and wants to see? Castles and churches and museums don't count!
1- I think Eiffel Tower has to be #1 for sure - after that not sure but my choices: 2- Rome's Colloseum 3- Pisa's Leaning Tower 4- London's Big Ben (tower not the bell) 5- London Traflagar Square 6- France- Mont Saint Michel 7- France Pont du Gard 8- Florence' Ponte Vecchio 9- England's Stonehenge 10- Berlin's Brandenburg Gate WHAT ARE YOUR TOP TEN (MORE OR LESS!) |
No castles, churches or museums? Pretty much discards my top 10 or 20 or 30.
"Things everyone knows and wants to see?" Landmarks may be harder to quantify, but probably yes to: Eiffel Tower Leaning Tower of Pisa Colloseum in Rome Some possibilities: not my choices, but are well known Trevi Fountain Pompeii and Vesuvius St Peters Square The Grand Canal in Venice and Rialto Bridge London Bridge Champs-Elysees |
I assume you mean Tower Bridge Sassafrass. London Bridge is nothing special.
White Cliffs of Dover. Normandy Beaches the Alps Cave Paintings Giants Causeway Mount Etna The Lofoten Wall Lavender fields Tulip fields Gorges du Tarn |
German beer hall
Dutch windmill Charles Bridge The Acropolis Blue Mosque |
My high school year book was called Landmark
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How about the Chunnel? Naw.
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Could Auschwitz be called a 'landmark'?
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Originally Posted by IMDonehere
(Post 16723293)
My high school year book was called Landmark
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Yes, Tower Bridge! Thanks.
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But Tower Bridge is London Bridge to most Americans - of course it's not and the real London Bridge is ho-hum and in Arizona - new one in London also ho-hum.
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Dun Aengus in Aran Islands
top of the Zugspitze in Germany Top of Crough Patrick in Ireland Giants Causeway The tomb at Newgrange cliff walk in Cinque Terre David in Florence Oktoberfest American cemetery in Normandy Edinburgh castle Just a few of my favs |
Or was it Lowmarks
Which I guess is better than Skidmarks |
We have gone out of our way to avoid the Leaning Tower and while visiting Paris, on numerous occasions, we close our eyes when we pass the Eiffel Tower.
And you can attribute the following to my ignorance, but until this thread I never heard of the The Lofoten Wall. It sound like Trump wants to keep lutefisk out of the country. |
The forums are truly doomed if it's come to this. This afternoon I watched paint dry. Really.
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Trevi fountain
Spanish steps Venice or at the very least the grand canal and St. Mark's square Alhambra Alcázar If the question is places everybody knows it's likely a very short list. Not everybody knows the Promenade des Anglais or even Ramblas. |
I have avoided looking at the leaning tower in Paris
The Eiffel tower is easy to avoid in Pisa But more serioiusly The view from Pienza cliff on a clear night The view from Colli Euganai towards Padua in the easly morning The smile of a bakery girl at 7:30 any morning especially when buying croissant in a small French town The ferry to to Brehat Troense Yllas in the winter when the deer are passing The underground spa in Miskolc Flying plants at the Sunday morning market in Hamburg The bike path on top of the railway line in Prague You guys go crazy places :-) |
I would say:
Eiffel tower, Paris Colleseum, Rome Tower Bridge, London Notre Dame, Paris Leaning tower, Pisa Ponte Vecchio, Florence Sagrada Familia, Barcelona St Peter's, Vatican Big Ben, London Alhambra, Granada |
Jeez, Pal, Has your supplier gotten really crappy stuff this week, or what?
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Originally Posted by MmePerdu
(Post 16723474)
The forums are truly doomed if it's come to this. This afternoon I watched paint dry. Really.
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I am working on my bottom ten and some of the top ten appear there.
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