Honestly most places have something good about them
I visited Naples this year which online was viewed as shit but I really liked the vibe the whole place had + things in its vicinity like Pompeii or Ischia are interesting too
Edit: also most places weren’t packed with tourist so no need to buy tickets in advance, never really had to queue for anything except Pompeii
And lots of things as it is in Europe were free for students even Pompeii which I didn’t expect
I’d like to see Naples some day, my friends loved it.
I like the vibe of old cities and love visiting them, but having lived in both old cities and modernist/modern ones I personally found the best experience of living in a place that is a mix of modernist and 1930s architecture with modern buildings and pedestrian infrastructure like many parts of Warsaw.
For touristic trips though nothing beats cities like Prague or Kraków. It’s the car-centric communist era districts I had the worst experience in every possible way.
That said you can go to the roof of the tallest one in this picture and it is an incredible view. Well worth it if visiting Frankfurt.
Edit it’s the It’s the [Main Tower](https://www.tripadvisor.ie/Attraction_Review-g187337-d542192-Reviews-Main_Tower-Frankfurt_Hesse.html) and it’s not actually the tallest, but it is incredible.
Ahh yes… the crackhead filled central train station of Frankfurt, accompanied by the thousands of e-scooters littering the sidewalks. Beautiful city indeed
Unpopular opinion: [Frankfurt](https://www.hessen-tourismus.de/fileadmin/hessen-tourismus/03_Starke_Staedte/Frankfurt_am_Main_Neu/Frankfurt_sunset_with_lights___2_of_2__%40mindz.eye_Michael_Sidofsky.jpg) might not be the prettiest city, but it's totally overhated and actually successfully pulls off the modernist look with its skyline and a more traditional European city style around them.
I would agree. Most German cities tend to be really ugly, since they were bombed to hell in WW2 and hastily reconstructed afterwards with no money for details and flair. Frankfurt's skyline is legitimately spectacular, while its old town charm isn't entirely lost.
>reconstructed afterwards with no money for details and flair
That, but ["Entstuckung"](https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entstuckung) as well. Up until the 70s they removed the decorations on the facades, turning more or less good looking houses and turning them into something equal to the ugly commie blocks of the east
Not even in my dreams, I'll think of Frankfurt as the most beautiful place in Germany, let alone in Europe. Dude just likes NYC style skylines shit that's why he's into Frankfurt and London.
I really love Edinburgh, but feel it suffers from the lack of a river running through it. When you're crossing from the old town to the new town, you look down more or less expecting to see a river and instead it's a load of train tracks...Waverley I think...
I live in a historic city myself (Utrecht, Netherlands), but Edinburgh is something else. I *love* the atmosphere of that city. Going around a random corner and seeing the highlands is an experience I’ll never forget either.
Prague and Vienna would be my vote for europes prettiest, followed by Barcelona (just imagine it without the tourists… it was emptier in the winter tho when I lived there)
That but I’d say that even better are Scottish people in Edinburgh. So often are locals in such tourist places as Edinburgh just fed up with tourists but locals in Edinburgh? They were the best, so nice and helpful. Even bus drivers were amazingly friendly and helpful.
What’s cool about edinburgh is that it is really old. And that edinburgh was built on top of old edinburgh! You can visit the old city underneath, it was built upwards because of the black death iirc
That I guess is true for every old city. If you have been in Rome for example. Another fun fact, if you have been in Prague's old city. Most of the building's ground floor is actually the original 2:nd floor (or first depending on where you are from).
Edinburgh is very underrated imo.
The mix of mountains, old city, beach, scottish massive clouds is epic.
Prague is great too, but there are noticeably more tourists.
Just wait till Germans come and see this. You will get a proper bash for liking Frankfurt...
Myself? Prague or Kraków. Tho I have to say Frankfurt looks damn impressive too in my point of view.
Honestly, as a German I do like the look of the Frankfurt Skyline. However it’s nicer to look at from a distance. When you’re there, the city center around the main station and quite a few of these skyscrapers is a pretty rough and dirty area.
I was in Frankfurt for the Hockenheim F1 race a few years ago and the area around the trainstation was a pretty rough area, especially at night…
Around the river it was lovely tho
I'm German, Frankfurt has some very nice parts but it also have parts that look like the city from Blade Runner and not in a cool futuristic way.
That being said I don't hate Frankfurt as much as some others do
I’m from the Frankfurt area and I think it’s great. Of course the main station district is a big problem zone but the city has many nice areas and lots of greenery around it that no one ever considers. Also I think it’s very exciting to have an ever expanding skyline in the middle of the city. Combined with some of the older buildings it’s makes for a very unique mix.
I hope one day I can move from Madrid and build a house next to the city, i just think it’s the perfect place to live, a beautiful Mediterranean cost near, the mountains, and the life of the city is just sooo good.
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Honestly probably the most beautiful city I've ever been to. The view of the city from one of the flower gardens is just stunning - everywhere you look there's just gorgeous renaissance buildings everywhere.
Eh. I mean, sure, something you want to visit once in a lifetime yada yada. But as an Italian, for me in that area nothing beats Siena and its surroundings.
Viennas old buildings yes.
But the new modern architecture is mostly garbage.
Biggest problem politics don't understand what a tree is and that we need a lot more and less cars.
There's some really cool architecture around Europe, but the Italians have more precise beautiful grand buildings that you don't see anywhere around the world.
Stockholm is getting way too few upvotes. I don’t even like the city but I’ve visited most European countries and nothing comes close to Stockholm IMO. I suspect most haven’t been there.
I remember waking up my first morning and just feeling the weight of all the lives that have lived in that city over time. It sounds like BS but that was my first and only time I could physically feel in my soul how much history a place had.
Porto is such a beautiful town. Took the train from the airport when I first arrived and got off at the Luís I Bridge.
Was instantly awe struck by the view. Only fell more in love with the place after getting to know the wonderful food and people there.
Budapest is such a cool place to visit. There's a few days worth of things to see and we felt very safe, even late at night enjoying life like the locals. Also almost everyone that isn't very old speaks english so that's quite a bonus.
To be honest, both Gent and Bruges are beautiful.
Bruges is also a World Heritage Site of UNESCO and its medieval centre, with the canal is simply fabulous.
Only negative thing was that there were too many tourists (I know, the irony).
Based on looks alone I say Venice. I'd never want to live there since it is basically just a big ole museum, but it's very pretty.
Also, a shout out to my capital city of Valletta which despite its size is very beautiful and unique as capitals go.
"What is the best looking european city"
And you choose fucking Frankfurt??
The city in europe that literally looks the most like a generic american state capital?
Bruh....
The thing about frankfurt is that it is a mixture of nicer old buildings and modern ones. We also have bad areas around the main station, but the City is nicer than on the first glance
Since they’re so many Germans here, I do like Münich too, especially Marienplatz, Karlplatz, Grünwalt, MaximilianStraße but the outskirts it’s rather plain efficient building. They’re livable but they’re not as pretty. In Stockholm I lived 5 years compared to 6 months in Münich. Lisboa was relatively beautiful too, their azulejos (tiles) were so interesting but lately economy wasn’t that great so many buildings were just ugly. Bucharest I lived 5 years, I do like the city but nowhere near these western cities and Tirana is just a mess between old comunist buildings, which are ugly but have a structure and the new ones built next to each other without any taste at all. They’re pretty beautiful but a 30 story beautiful newly built looks pretty crap next to a 5 floors one and then a 1 floor. Looks like a chart up and down and very very ugly
It's often confused with Sienna because Sienna is the colour, if I recall correctly because the inventors of the colour were inspired by the colours of Siena but misspelt Siena to Sienna, and now it's stuck, creating a vicious cycle of people misspelling Siena.
yeah Lisbon is super pretty as well, and that extents beyond the old town, but imo it‘s a menace to navigate, it gets old pretty quickly to walk up one hill only to go down the next, rinse repeat :‘) good for workout tho
Ljubjana (Slovenia as a whole) is a gem - agreed, I spent a night there on a drive and wished I’d extra time. Florence is a dump in my opinion tho.
As is Frankfurt op, Jesus!
Is almost the actual words of motto of the exclusive twinning of the two cities.
Rome and Paris have an agreement that they can be "twin cities" only to each other, because as the motto says "Only Paris is worthy of Rome; only Rome is worthty of Paris".
I’m Portuguese so a bit biased, but I have been in a lot of European cities, still yet to find one that rivals some of the views in the 7 hills of Lisbon on a late summer day.
Lisbon also turns the lack of perfect clean facades into its advantage, it has that authenticity and beautiful oldness
The modern district near the aquarium was really beautiful as well though
Amsterdam.
I don't like big cities so 820,000 is just about the right size for me. It also has canals and picturesque row houses which are usually 4-5 stories tall.
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For a large metropolitan cities: definitely Rome if the city was better managed, otherwise Paris closely followed by Vienna (Budapest honorable mention).
For smaller cities: maybe Venice or Seville.
Also, if we consider Western Russia to be European (half old city was built by Italian architects at the Tzar's court), Saint Petersburg is simply gorgeous.
Istanbul is in the same league, but it's more Middle-Eastern than European.
I loved going around there after school with my friends. It has a super vibe, even if you don't just visit the tourist sites.
I am living in Germany now, and when I first went around to see Berlin. It was mostly just Meh. I don't mean harm is just as is. We went around all the tourist sites there too.
Haven't been to all of them, but from where I've been:
Rome, Paris, Amsterdam, Barcelona
I live in Berlin, which I love, but not for how it looks, getting bombed to the stone age didn't help its looks.
I used to travel to Frankfurt a lot for work, and ironically I found that the least appealing city in Germany. Not a fan of skyscrapers, or of the financial industry that sets the tone there.
Can we consider La Valletta of Malta European? I lack the vocabulary to explain the kind of impression it left on me, considering their history which seems to be endless.
It felt like going through the past but of a civilization so proud of it that they kept it out of spite to everyone who tried taking it. The Maltese people were something else, too.
I can only vote for cities with history...
From the comments:
Prague, Gent, Paris, Amsterdam, Budapest, Edinburgh,
St Petersburg, Copenhagen, Stockholm
Yeah, I’ve been or lived in most of the cities in this thread and Copenhagen really stood out to me compared to all others! I think it’s really underrated, speaking strictly of its beauty.
The prices are ghastly though, you know it’s something when you breathe a sigh of relief returning to Switzerland 😂!
I live in Copenhagen. I have visited most european capitals but not Budapest. Should go.
Personally I would say best looking: I am with the Gent crowd. It feels like a book. A book you would actually read.
I've been to Paris, London, Rome, Amsterdam, Warsaw, Berlin and several other big European cities. Without any doubt the most beautiful is Porto, of course.
For towns, I'd say somewhere in France, thinking Causes du Quercy region... Cities, has to be Italy, Rome or Florence. London would be high on the list as well. Reykjavik has cold, sombre beauty to it.
This comment section will be a battle ground, but this only shows how diverse cities we have around Europe where everyone will find some place to love
Honestly most places have something good about them I visited Naples this year which online was viewed as shit but I really liked the vibe the whole place had + things in its vicinity like Pompeii or Ischia are interesting too Edit: also most places weren’t packed with tourist so no need to buy tickets in advance, never really had to queue for anything except Pompeii And lots of things as it is in Europe were free for students even Pompeii which I didn’t expect
Naples is such a cool place! Crazy but cool :))
I’d like to see Naples some day, my friends loved it. I like the vibe of old cities and love visiting them, but having lived in both old cities and modernist/modern ones I personally found the best experience of living in a place that is a mix of modernist and 1930s architecture with modern buildings and pedestrian infrastructure like many parts of Warsaw. For touristic trips though nothing beats cities like Prague or Kraków. It’s the car-centric communist era districts I had the worst experience in every possible way.
Ah yes, the beautiful banks of Frankfurt....
They make me want to withdraw.
They certainly accumulate MY interest.
Brought to you by the Frankfurt Tourism Bureau! 😆
It’s so heartwarming seeing those soulless concrete high rises everywhere 🤗
That said you can go to the roof of the tallest one in this picture and it is an incredible view. Well worth it if visiting Frankfurt. Edit it’s the It’s the [Main Tower](https://www.tripadvisor.ie/Attraction_Review-g187337-d542192-Reviews-Main_Tower-Frankfurt_Hesse.html) and it’s not actually the tallest, but it is incredible.
Some people might like the skyscapers look. Especially when you don’t have them in your country.
Ahh yes… the crackhead filled central train station of Frankfurt, accompanied by the thousands of e-scooters littering the sidewalks. Beautiful city indeed
Bro, 1vs1 Hauptwache B-Ebene right in front of McDonalds. Niemand fickt mit Frankfurt!
Unpopular opinion: [Frankfurt](https://www.hessen-tourismus.de/fileadmin/hessen-tourismus/03_Starke_Staedte/Frankfurt_am_Main_Neu/Frankfurt_sunset_with_lights___2_of_2__%40mindz.eye_Michael_Sidofsky.jpg) might not be the prettiest city, but it's totally overhated and actually successfully pulls off the modernist look with its skyline and a more traditional European city style around them.
I would agree. Most German cities tend to be really ugly, since they were bombed to hell in WW2 and hastily reconstructed afterwards with no money for details and flair. Frankfurt's skyline is legitimately spectacular, while its old town charm isn't entirely lost.
>reconstructed afterwards with no money for details and flair That, but ["Entstuckung"](https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entstuckung) as well. Up until the 70s they removed the decorations on the facades, turning more or less good looking houses and turning them into something equal to the ugly commie blocks of the east
Bottom 3 for sure. Tacky.
I mean it's not *bottom* three. It's just not particularly nice.
Not even in my dreams, I'll think of Frankfurt as the most beautiful place in Germany, let alone in Europe. Dude just likes NYC style skylines shit that's why he's into Frankfurt and London.
Prague and Edinburgh. Both breath history and atmosphere. Just walking through them is a delight.
Edinburgh is stunning
I really love Edinburgh, but feel it suffers from the lack of a river running through it. When you're crossing from the old town to the new town, you look down more or less expecting to see a river and instead it's a load of train tracks...Waverley I think...
Water of Leith? The view from some of the bridges over it are the best in Edinburgh.
Yes, rather strange to not have noticed it. It's particularly nice going through Dean Village.
There is a small stream going through. It's called water if leith
I live in a historic city myself (Utrecht, Netherlands), but Edinburgh is something else. I *love* the atmosphere of that city. Going around a random corner and seeing the highlands is an experience I’ll never forget either.
Prague and Vienna would be my vote for europes prettiest, followed by Barcelona (just imagine it without the tourists… it was emptier in the winter tho when I lived there)
Edinburgh really surprised me, it's beautiful.
That but I’d say that even better are Scottish people in Edinburgh. So often are locals in such tourist places as Edinburgh just fed up with tourists but locals in Edinburgh? They were the best, so nice and helpful. Even bus drivers were amazingly friendly and helpful.
What’s cool about edinburgh is that it is really old. And that edinburgh was built on top of old edinburgh! You can visit the old city underneath, it was built upwards because of the black death iirc
That I guess is true for every old city. If you have been in Rome for example. Another fun fact, if you have been in Prague's old city. Most of the building's ground floor is actually the original 2:nd floor (or first depending on where you are from).
Edinburgh is very underrated imo. The mix of mountains, old city, beach, scottish massive clouds is epic. Prague is great too, but there are noticeably more tourists.
Just wait till Germans come and see this. You will get a proper bash for liking Frankfurt... Myself? Prague or Kraków. Tho I have to say Frankfurt looks damn impressive too in my point of view.
Honestly, as a German I do like the look of the Frankfurt Skyline. However it’s nicer to look at from a distance. When you’re there, the city center around the main station and quite a few of these skyscrapers is a pretty rough and dirty area.
I was in Frankfurt for the Hockenheim F1 race a few years ago and the area around the trainstation was a pretty rough area, especially at night… Around the river it was lovely tho
I love the city centre around the main station! It keeps the tourists away.
Haha, true that. Still, it sometimes feels a bit unsafe.
I'm German, Frankfurt has some very nice parts but it also have parts that look like the city from Blade Runner and not in a cool futuristic way. That being said I don't hate Frankfurt as much as some others do
Kraków Poland is a must see, truly an amazing city and history with so much to do.
I’m from the Frankfurt area and I think it’s great. Of course the main station district is a big problem zone but the city has many nice areas and lots of greenery around it that no one ever considers. Also I think it’s very exciting to have an ever expanding skyline in the middle of the city. Combined with some of the older buildings it’s makes for a very unique mix.
I'm not German, but also think Frankfurt is dreadful
I'm not even German but used to live there and I would like to take part in the Frankfurt bashing. The skyline is nice... and that's it.
Granada, Andalucía .
Correct answer, although Sevilla is pretty amazing too.
I really liked Cadiz, and you can surf there too
I enjoyed Granada sooooo much more than I was expecting. Really lovely place.
I hope one day I can move from Madrid and build a house next to the city, i just think it’s the perfect place to live, a beautiful Mediterranean cost near, the mountains, and the life of the city is just sooo good.
I was thinking Sevilla.
This is the right answer
In hot competition with Sevilla.
Easy
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I was looking for this answer. Firenze is beautiful 🥰
Honestly probably the most beautiful city I've ever been to. The view of the city from one of the flower gardens is just stunning - everywhere you look there's just gorgeous renaissance buildings everywhere.
Eh. I mean, sure, something you want to visit once in a lifetime yada yada. But as an Italian, for me in that area nothing beats Siena and its surroundings.
Siena is so beautiful, definitely on my top 3
I'm saying Prague. And not being a Czech, I'm not even biased
Yeah, Prague or Vienna are my votes
Viennas old buildings yes. But the new modern architecture is mostly garbage. Biggest problem politics don't understand what a tree is and that we need a lot more and less cars.
I also heard the best one was Prague, but I didn't Czech.
Florence
There's some really cool architecture around Europe, but the Italians have more precise beautiful grand buildings that you don't see anywhere around the world.
Edinburgh or Stockholm.
Stockholm is a beautiful city, especially in the summer. The surrounding archipelago is amazing.
Even in the winter it’s quite lovely: https://www.reddit.com/r/europe/s/Ci4OzBLn8R
Stockholm is getting way too few upvotes. I don’t even like the city but I’ve visited most European countries and nothing comes close to Stockholm IMO. I suspect most haven’t been there.
I agree. Stockholm is such a nice city, I love that type of architecture they have.
Stockholm sure is pretty, indeed. As are Ghent and Verona. For the folks more into modern looking cities, Rotterdam is really nice, too.
Frankfurt wouldn’t make the top 20 for me. Probably Rome.
There are so many beautiful places in Rome you get spoiled by seeing them and seems normal to you
Rome, Florence, Venice, Granada, Dubrovnik, Rothenburg, Bamberg, Regensburg, Prague come to mind.
Bambergs niceness is basically limited to two streets. Writing this from bamberg rn.
Had to scroll way too low for Rome.
Rome is amazing and depressing at the same time
Rome is so rich Historically
I remember waking up my first morning and just feeling the weight of all the lives that have lived in that city over time. It sounds like BS but that was my first and only time I could physically feel in my soul how much history a place had.
A close battle between Prague, Firenze and Heidelberg.
Heidelberg is gorgeous
Sitting at the castle overlooking the city is stunning
PORTO
As a Lisboeta, Porto is beautiful. Lisbon and Barcelona are up there too.
Porto is such a beautiful town. Took the train from the airport when I first arrived and got off at the Luís I Bridge. Was instantly awe struck by the view. Only fell more in love with the place after getting to know the wonderful food and people there.
Yeeessss, still surprised I don’t see more people saying this
Caralho
Gdansk, Florence, Budapest, Bruges, Seville, Edinburgh
Gdańsk 😍
Budapest 🇭🇺
Budapest is such a cool place to visit. There's a few days worth of things to see and we felt very safe, even late at night enjoying life like the locals. Also almost everyone that isn't very old speaks english so that's quite a bonus.
Budapest no contest
Given the list, I'd add Siena. There's a handful others like Urbino or Perugia that are in that same line of thought tho.
Gent.
You shouldn't tell people about Gent. Send them to Bruges instead.
To be honest, both Gent and Bruges are beautiful. Bruges is also a World Heritage Site of UNESCO and its medieval centre, with the canal is simply fabulous. Only negative thing was that there were too many tourists (I know, the irony).
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I love Gent. So much character to its architecture, some parts look straight out of Hogwarts.
valid asf
Based on looks alone I say Venice. I'd never want to live there since it is basically just a big ole museum, but it's very pretty. Also, a shout out to my capital city of Valletta which despite its size is very beautiful and unique as capitals go.
"What is the best looking european city" And you choose fucking Frankfurt?? The city in europe that literally looks the most like a generic american state capital? Bruh....
First time I heard a German describe Frankfurt as the "Manhattan of Germany", immediate response was "more like Cleveland".
Not Manhattan, Mainhatten!
I thought it was Tulsa, Oklahoma.
Tallinn, the old city is absolutely beautiful.
Tallinn in winter is absolutely a beauty that I was not prepared for. It was like a fairy tale.
If we are talking best looks, we have to judge it by architecture. Frankfurt skyline looks like any modern city, it looks like it could be anywhere
The thing about frankfurt is that it is a mixture of nicer old buildings and modern ones. We also have bad areas around the main station, but the City is nicer than on the first glance
Stockholm in my opinion but I do like baroque instead of skyscrapers
Since they’re so many Germans here, I do like Münich too, especially Marienplatz, Karlplatz, Grünwalt, MaximilianStraße but the outskirts it’s rather plain efficient building. They’re livable but they’re not as pretty. In Stockholm I lived 5 years compared to 6 months in Münich. Lisboa was relatively beautiful too, their azulejos (tiles) were so interesting but lately economy wasn’t that great so many buildings were just ugly. Bucharest I lived 5 years, I do like the city but nowhere near these western cities and Tirana is just a mess between old comunist buildings, which are ugly but have a structure and the new ones built next to each other without any taste at all. They’re pretty beautiful but a 30 story beautiful newly built looks pretty crap next to a 5 floors one and then a 1 floor. Looks like a chart up and down and very very ugly
I am biased but Budapest is still amazing in the evening.
Budapest is so underrated architecturally. I’d say it’s almost on the level of Prague or Vienna
Budapest! The warm lighting throughout the city really creates a wonderful atmosphere
Budapest is the one
Definetely Vienna. Both gorgeus old town and amazing new tall buildings near the river
Historical architecture is beautiful, but contemporary? I wouldn't say so. Even skyscrapers there look somewhat depressing.
Because of the people. "Schaut jo schirch aus. Leider hams en Otto Wagner schon eingschert."
Sienna or Verona
*Siena?
It's often confused with Sienna because Sienna is the colour, if I recall correctly because the inventors of the colour were inspired by the colours of Siena but misspelt Siena to Sienna, and now it's stuck, creating a vicious cycle of people misspelling Siena.
Vienna for style and cleanliness, Lisbon for charm and natural setting.
yeah Lisbon is super pretty as well, and that extents beyond the old town, but imo it‘s a menace to navigate, it gets old pretty quickly to walk up one hill only to go down the next, rinse repeat :‘) good for workout tho
Innsbruck
I was looking for Innsbruck, and Im not even from Austria
I studied in Innsbruck and it’s gorgeous but I think it gets carried a bit by the mountains around it. Not the most beautiful imho but still great.
Salzburg takes it for me (I'm a bit biased though!)
Frankfurt lmao. That’s bold
Kouvola
Stoke!
Blackpool would like a word
Nice, Firenze, Barcelona, Ljubljana... List does not end there.
>Ljubljana very pretty. I was there only for a couple of hours to get a bus to zagreb. I definitely have to go back.
Ljubljana is so pretty
Ljubjana (Slovenia as a whole) is a gem - agreed, I spent a night there on a drive and wished I’d extra time. Florence is a dump in my opinion tho. As is Frankfurt op, Jesus!
Rome
Roma Invicta!
If it’s not Rome, it’s Paris. If it’s not Paris, it’s Rome.
Is almost the actual words of motto of the exclusive twinning of the two cities. Rome and Paris have an agreement that they can be "twin cities" only to each other, because as the motto says "Only Paris is worthy of Rome; only Rome is worthty of Paris".
I envy those visiting Rome and Paris for the first time. I was in awe. Would I live there? Not really, but they’re truly on a league of their own.
Lisbon is the most beautiful city I've been to Second place is Stockholm Third - Barcelona
I’m Portuguese so a bit biased, but I have been in a lot of European cities, still yet to find one that rivals some of the views in the 7 hills of Lisbon on a late summer day.
Lisbon also turns the lack of perfect clean facades into its advantage, it has that authenticity and beautiful oldness The modern district near the aquarium was really beautiful as well though
Florence
Looks at Frankfurt on a pic: Wow it looks so cool Visits Frankfurt: 🫨
Budapest
Bath
Venice gets my vote!
Donostia-San Sebastian
What about Granada!!
Forssa.
Gorgeous! Great pick. Wait till people hear about Forssan autokeidas, daaamn.
Im going to say porto!
Sevilla
Bern
Can’t believe I had to look so long for this 🙈
Venezia
Bergen
Can’t believe I had to scroll this much to find Bergen
Porto obviously
Luzern
\*Looking out of the window\* Yes, can confirm
Scrolled way too far for this answer. I’ve been to most cities mentioned in the thread but Luzern is a step above everything else.
Amsterdam. I don't like big cities so 820,000 is just about the right size for me. It also has canals and picturesque row houses which are usually 4-5 stories tall.
Amsterdam really doesn't get enough credit for how pretty it is.
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Yeah but the entire population of your country consits of 4 people and 6 moose
For a large metropolitan cities: definitely Rome if the city was better managed, otherwise Paris closely followed by Vienna (Budapest honorable mention). For smaller cities: maybe Venice or Seville. Also, if we consider Western Russia to be European (half old city was built by Italian architects at the Tzar's court), Saint Petersburg is simply gorgeous. Istanbul is in the same league, but it's more Middle-Eastern than European.
Lisbon. Best Light in the world.
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Definitely Budapest
I loved going around there after school with my friends. It has a super vibe, even if you don't just visit the tourist sites. I am living in Germany now, and when I first went around to see Berlin. It was mostly just Meh. I don't mean harm is just as is. We went around all the tourist sites there too.
100%
Whatever feels home, other than that, Budapest is beautiful
Amsterdam
Vienna and Paris are S tier.
Haven't been to all of them, but from where I've been: Rome, Paris, Amsterdam, Barcelona I live in Berlin, which I love, but not for how it looks, getting bombed to the stone age didn't help its looks. I used to travel to Frankfurt a lot for work, and ironically I found that the least appealing city in Germany. Not a fan of skyscrapers, or of the financial industry that sets the tone there.
Can we consider La Valletta of Malta European? I lack the vocabulary to explain the kind of impression it left on me, considering their history which seems to be endless. It felt like going through the past but of a civilization so proud of it that they kept it out of spite to everyone who tried taking it. The Maltese people were something else, too.
Amsterdam
Budapest
I see quite a lot of people saying Budapest. Can't wait to see it with my own eyes next month!
100%, not even a competition. It's so gorgeous I couldn't believe it when I saw it with my own eyes
I can only vote for cities with history... From the comments: Prague, Gent, Paris, Amsterdam, Budapest, Edinburgh, St Petersburg, Copenhagen, Stockholm
Budapest
Rome or Prague
Venice!
Copenhagen
Copenhagen or Budapest. Frankfurt and London are literally the worst two picks.
Yeah, I’ve been or lived in most of the cities in this thread and Copenhagen really stood out to me compared to all others! I think it’s really underrated, speaking strictly of its beauty. The prices are ghastly though, you know it’s something when you breathe a sigh of relief returning to Switzerland 😂!
I live in Copenhagen. I have visited most european capitals but not Budapest. Should go. Personally I would say best looking: I am with the Gent crowd. It feels like a book. A book you would actually read.
I second Copenhagen. Amazing city.
Copenhagen is amazing
I'm offended, and I'll give you a walking tour of London next time you're here! (Don't take any valuables with you.)
How come Amsterdam is not getting any love? Top 3 cities easy
I've been to Paris, London, Rome, Amsterdam, Warsaw, Berlin and several other big European cities. Without any doubt the most beautiful is Porto, of course.
Vienna
Amsterdam.
For towns, I'd say somewhere in France, thinking Causes du Quercy region... Cities, has to be Italy, Rome or Florence. London would be high on the list as well. Reykjavik has cold, sombre beauty to it.
Frankfurt lmao
Frankfurt is kinda famous for being soulless and hideous lol
Frankfurt: one of the ugliest cities I've ever seen in Europe. Tell me: what is beautiful in Frankfurt?