Nora

In the USA people put down places with the comment of &quot;that's so tacky&quot; Places like Gatlinburg and the Wisconsin Dells are looked down at because they are tacky.<BR><BR>No one one this board ever comments about tacky places in Europe. Come on, there must be tacky places (Euro Disney? London Eye?) Where are they?

uncle sam

Gatlinburg is tacky?!?!<BR><BR>Maybe to some East or West coast pseudo sophisticate, but not to normal people that want to take their family to a nice family oriented entertainment site.<BR><BR>OTOH, the tackiest thing I've seen in Europe is the street that runs in front of the leaning tower of Pisa. <BR><BR>Now that place is tacky!<BR><BR>US

AR

Stratford upon Avon is tacky. So olde worlde. It is not even as if they know much about Shakespere (or Francis Bacon for that matter ha ha).

AR

Sorry, before I am hounded, I mean the man Shakespeare as in his history. I don't mean that Stratford don't know what they are talking about - although they did get Shakespeare's mother's house wrong for many years!

Liam

Blackpool was for decades considered a tacky beach resort -- does that image still hold today?

AR

Oh yes!

shawna

Place de tetre, Paris. Art for tourists' sake.

Dodo

Easily the tackiest spot I've seen in Europe is Blarney Castle. Much ado about a dopey rock that silly tourists slobber upon. The gigantic shopping center (Blarney Mills?) just outside out &quot;tacks&quot; even the tackiest U.S. tourist locales.

Karen

Venice at certain times of the year. Too many video-camera carrying tourist crammed into gondolas. More stacked and backed than the I-5 at rush hour.

AGAS

Gatlinburg is tacky for sure. I would also have to say that some parts of southern Spain, like Benidorm. Oooo.<BR>By the way I think the London Eye is great. You can't beat the view!!

guy

London Eye is not tacky -its actually rather a wonderful piece of slick, cool, modern engineering with a great view to boot! - wouldn't Disney have painted it in pastel rainbow colours and had people dressed up as strange animals as hosts??, but Blackpool certainly is TACKY, but then that is its charm. But its not tacky in a contrived Disney sort of way, its just popular English 'culture' gone completely overboard. Definitely worth a weekend (especially at &quot;Illuminations&quot; time when there is the British version of Disney desperately tring to prove itself, but ending up as truly British instead, just nowhere near as slick or sentimental as the american version!)

as

I agree with uncle sam. The street that runs along Pisa is about the tackiest place in all of Europe.<BR>

Tim

I know I'll have some &quot;Amelie&quot; fans up in arms, but Montmartre is pretty damn tacky. Especially if you get off at the Pigalle metro stop and walk up the front steps.<BR>If you go up the side way through the actual streets of Montmartre (get off at Abbesses and go up past the vineyard, etc.) it's a different experience.

TC_Rider

LOL, your recollection of Montemart is the same as mine.<BR><BR>I do want to say that any discussion of 'tacky' in America is neglect without mention of the home of Pedro, South of the Border.

lll

I agree with Place du Tetre in Paris as being tacky. It's swarming with &quot;artists&quot;-okay some are artists-but it's such a rip-off. They charge an arm and a leg for a tiny oil painting. Then there are many who want to draw caricatures. They actually follow you and try to talk you into having them do this for you. When you ask their price, it's outrageous.

John G

Here's another vote for the area around the Leaning Tower of Pisa. Walmart has more elegance.<BR><BR>Also, some of the streets in Sorrento around the Foreigner's Club. Too many souvenir shops filled with cheap junk.

egg

In London the London Dungeon.<BR>Sadly, I'd also nominate Lands End in Cornwall. The rest of Cornwall is so beautiful and this is mainly because much of it has been bought by the National Trust. They couldn't raise enough money to buy Lands End.

Fan of Uncle

I frequently agree with Uncle Sam and I am glad he posts on this board, but I think Gaitlinburg IS the tackiest place in the whole world. There are lots of rather ugly places in Europe, but tacky..It has to be Gatlinburg.

Made in Taiwan

Hello...Gatlinburg the tackiest place in the world? Haven't any of you ever been to Niagra Falls? And Las Vegas is pretty darn close too.

Ann

The town of Killarney (in Ireland). The countryside surrounding the town is lovely, but the town itself represents the very worst of the leprechaunization of Ireland.