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PalenQ May 2nd, 2018 11:01 AM

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!)

Sassafrass May 2nd, 2018 11:58 AM

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

hetismij2 May 2nd, 2018 12:08 PM

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

xcountry May 2nd, 2018 12:44 PM

German beer hall
Dutch windmill
Charles Bridge
The Acropolis
Blue Mosque

IMDonehere May 2nd, 2018 01:11 PM

My high school year book was called Landmark

PalenQ May 2nd, 2018 01:17 PM

How about the Chunnel? Naw.

PalenQ May 2nd, 2018 01:23 PM

Could Auschwitz be called a 'landmark'?

xcountry May 2nd, 2018 01:25 PM


Originally Posted by IMDonehere (Post 16723293)
My high school year book was called Landmark

Or was it Lowmarks

Sassafrass May 2nd, 2018 02:04 PM

Yes, Tower Bridge! Thanks.

PalenQ May 2nd, 2018 02:10 PM

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.

Macross May 2nd, 2018 04:37 PM

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

IMDonehere May 2nd, 2018 06:20 PM

Or was it Lowmarks

Which I guess is better than Skidmarks

IMDonehere May 2nd, 2018 06:29 PM

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.

MmePerdu May 2nd, 2018 08:49 PM

The forums are truly doomed if it's come to this. This afternoon I watched paint dry. Really.

Traveler_Nick May 2nd, 2018 11:47 PM

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.

bilboburgler May 2nd, 2018 11:59 PM

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 :-)

Lamorna May 3rd, 2018 11:24 AM

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

StCirq May 3rd, 2018 11:38 AM

Jeez, Pal, Has your supplier gotten really crappy stuff this week, or what?

Macross May 3rd, 2018 02:22 PM


Originally Posted by MmePerdu (Post 16723474)
The forums are truly doomed if it's come to this. This afternoon I watched paint dry. Really.

I am bored at work so scrolling through.

IMDonehere May 3rd, 2018 03:51 PM

I am working on my bottom ten and some of the top ten appear there.


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