What is the best city you have ever visited? Not necessarily architecturally, though if that's your criteria, that's fine.


Now, no dissing of Dublin in this thread, try and keep this positive rather than bitching about Dublin as in other threads.

Transport & Food - Singapore
Variety if life - Barcelona
Architecture & Style - Paris
Wierdness - Darwin
Beachlife - Perth

...was I only supposed to mention one...

All of the above - NYC

can any city compare with NYC? its in a category of its own.
sure, other cities have x, y, and z -but New York has the whole spectrum of humanity.
you just feel that anything can happen at any moment- incredible place.

paris: for history, art, architecture, adventure, the metro, the river walks, and atmosphere.

dublin has its moments though

Lisbon for me… architecture the old city itself, the Alfama district and all the new architecture / public space down on the old docklands, lovely metro and old trams, food wine lovely weather, football, people and prices.

A little tip !! The best kept secret for favourite old town would have to be Castellammare de Golfo 40 kms west of Palermo Sicily……God its November how I wish I was back.

Oh how I understand you Papworth :)

I never go out of Europe and Africa but untill now Lisbon is also my favourite city for all that you said and a lot more, of corse

Beat this: Belem, at the mouth of the Amazon, right on the equator. Colonial architecture, huge old dockside buildings converted into an amazing range of restaurants, botanical and zoological gardens, amazing archeological sites nearby, an interestingly louche atmosphere, and that Brazilian verve. Forget Manaus upriver, it's been wrecked. All the tourists go to Rio - so Belem is pretty much unspoiled.

Belem is a place to retreat to in a Graham Greene kind of way. Or a Le Carre, Tailor-of-Panama kind of way, if you prefer.

I like my hometown !

Yazd
zavare
kashan
all of them ........of iran
because of wind towers ,vault ,pure space,
mosque,mall,houses...........

Say hello to you !!!
I was born in china !
the grate wall !
or the other building in Zhejiang ,yangzhou .
look this!

Lisbon is a great city specially at sunset. (it is my home town)

The sunlight and the colors are very beautifull

The Saint Jorge's Castle is a great place to look at the city

I just arrived from Mumbai. A caotic city but very peculiar

For modern creative architecture, low and high rise and overall a very pleasent forward looking city, Valencia, Spain. most people think of Madrid or Barcelona, but this is a city that holds a lot of suprises.

Agreed about Valencia. The old market buildings there are awesome. Plus recent Calatrava and Foster, and that amazing linear park made out of the old river bed, running right through the middle.

could any one send his favort city send apicture of city it would be really visual and interesting

Montevideo is a magic place for me. Arriving by boat from BA. Walking up through the markets and squares. Wonderful. Salavador Bahia was a amazing place 15 yrs ago .... I hear its no longer so great.


Beachlife - Perth


..... there are no beaches in Perth, Australia.
Do u mean Freemantle down the river?

ooh, what an interesting little thread...so far i've only been around europe (but almost all of it)

1. barcelona - for all aspects of living
2. london - for its variety
3. munich for its cathedral spires and the city is beautiful esp. with a bit of snow
4. vienna - for its richness of architecture
5. paris - same as above

new city : chicago
in the middle : dublin
old city : paris

sydeny, san francisco, helsinki, genoa, edinburgh. all pure class to visit, and all with a direct relationship to the sea which is no coincidence.

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can any city compare with NYC? its in a category of its own.
sure, other cities have x, y, and z -but New York has the whole spectrum of humanity.
you just feel that anything can happen at any moment- incredible place.

Couldn't disagree more. NYC is great but lacks too much for me to choose it. Hong Kong, Bangkok, Rome and Paris all great cities, but for me the answer is always going to be London. London has everything, from the glitzy West End to seedy SoHo, China Towns to Little Indias, Modern Skyscrapers to Royal Historic Palaces, Oliver Twist to Harry Potter, Harrods to Notting Hill, Tube trains to Rickshaws and everything in between. Absolutely magical place, simply unique.

if you can make it here...you can make it anywhere...its got to be new york
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from the observation deck top of the roc

Paris, London, San Francisco, New York, Hong Kong, Rome.

The same cities always come up.

For variety in everything, architecture, Culture, nightlife, it's gotta be London.
Although I'm biased, since I'm studying there.

Barcelona is the best regarding architecture!

Venice
Florence
Rome
Naples
Vicenza
Pienza (most important)

Prague
Crackow
Dresden
Leipzig
Cologne
Wien
Budapest
Triest
Lubjlana
Salzburg
Regensburg

Avignon
Nantes
Toulouse
Bordeaux
Nice
Carcassonne
Dijon
Autun


Seville
Burgos
Cadiz
Toledo
Setubal
Oporto