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Old May 2nd, 2018 | 11:01 AM
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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!)
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Old May 2nd, 2018 | 11:58 AM
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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
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Old May 2nd, 2018 | 12:08 PM
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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
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Old May 2nd, 2018 | 12:44 PM
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German beer hall
Dutch windmill
Charles Bridge
The Acropolis
Blue Mosque

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Old May 2nd, 2018 | 01:11 PM
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My high school year book was called Landmark
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Old May 2nd, 2018 | 01:17 PM
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How about the Chunnel? Naw.
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Old May 2nd, 2018 | 01:23 PM
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Could Auschwitz be called a 'landmark'?
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Old May 2nd, 2018 | 01:25 PM
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Originally Posted by IMDonehere
My high school year book was called Landmark
Or was it Lowmarks
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Old May 2nd, 2018 | 02:04 PM
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Yes, Tower Bridge! Thanks.
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Old May 2nd, 2018 | 02:10 PM
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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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Old May 2nd, 2018 | 04:37 PM
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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
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Old May 2nd, 2018 | 06:20 PM
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Or was it Lowmarks

Which I guess is better than Skidmarks
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Old May 2nd, 2018 | 06:29 PM
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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.
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Old May 2nd, 2018 | 08:49 PM
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The forums are truly doomed if it's come to this. This afternoon I watched paint dry. Really.
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Old May 2nd, 2018 | 11:47 PM
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Trevi fountain
Spanish steps
Venice or at the very least the grand canal and St. Mark's square
Alhambra
Alcázar
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If the question is places everybody knows it's likely a very short list. Not everybody knows the Promenade des Anglais or even Ramblas.
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Old May 2nd, 2018 | 11:59 PM
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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
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Old May 3rd, 2018 | 11:24 AM
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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
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Old May 3rd, 2018 | 11:38 AM
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Jeez, Pal, Has your supplier gotten really crappy stuff this week, or what?
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Old May 3rd, 2018 | 02:22 PM
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Originally Posted by MmePerdu
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.
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Old May 3rd, 2018 | 03:51 PM
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I am working on my bottom ten and some of the top ten appear there.
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