Best looking city in your country?

[NovaKart]

Kurdistan doesn't really have any beautiful cities but Rawanduz is interesting.

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[Josu]

It is not a city, it is an area with a bunch of some small towns, called Urdaibai, all I am posting can be visited in one day

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This next place is my favourite place in the whole basque country, along with the navarrese Pyrenees

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[Domen]

It is hard to pick one, but I nominate Poznań (which was also the first capital city of Poland):

It is now the 5th largest city in Poland (after Warsaw, Cracow, Lodz and Wroclaw) with over 550 K people:

More aerial photos:

http://www.aerofoto-kaczmarczyk.com/index.php?option=com_zoom&Itemid=31&catid=85

And yet some more:

http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=399203&page=4

 

[Tahuti]

I'm torn between Amsterdam, Haarlem, Delft and Breda, though I decide to go ahead with Breda (and no, you don't say Bre-da, you say Bray-dah):

 

[Domen]

And in the old days:

http://www.makieta.poznan.pl/angielski/galeria_dp_en.html

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In even older days... :

http://www.makieta.poznan.pl/angielski/glowna_gp_en.html

 

[Domen]

^ If we counted also smaller cities and towns, then I wouldn't nominate Poznań, but something else. For example Sandomierz, Kazimierz Dolny, Zakopane, Zamość, etc. have their charm. Out of larger cities (but not as big as Pozna&#324 also for example Lublin and Toruń.

I'm gonna have to go with Detroit.

^ Wrong thread, here is the one you are looking for:

http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?p=13874325#post13874325

 

[Domen]

Another great thing about Gdansk - it's connected to two other cities which forms the "Tri-City". One of those other cities is a modern shipyard type town, but the other one is Sopot - which has beautiful beaches

The "modern shipyard type town" is Gdynia, which used to be just a small fishing village 100 years ago.

What is exceptional about Gdynia is that it was built from scratch during just several years, as this population data shows:

A short video about Gdynia:

http://www.muzeumgdynia.pl/en/


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Gdynia is full of nice-looking, modernist architecture from the late 1920s and from the 1930s.

It looks much better than most of younger architecture from the Communist period.

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Simultaneously with the city of Gdynia, also the trunk-line connecting it with Polish Upper Silesia was built in period 1926-1933:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish_Coal_Trunk-Line

The Coal Trunk-Line (Polish: Magistrala Węglowa) is one of the most important rail connections in Poland. It crosses the central part of the country, from the coal mines and steelworks of Upper Silesia in the South to the Baltic Sea port of Gdynia in the North. The line is used mostly by freight trains: passenger connections on it are few. Constructed in the late 1920s and early 1930s, it was one of the biggest investments of the Second Polish Republic. (...)

As well as the Central Industrial Region, the construction of which started in 1936, and the end was planned for 30 July 1940:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Industrial_Region_(Poland)

The Central Industrial District (Polish: Centralny Okręg Przemysłowy, abbreviated COP), is an industrial region in Poland. It was one of the biggest economic projects of the Second Polish Republic. The 5-year-long project was initiated by a famous Polish economist, deputy Prime Minister and Minister of the Treasury, Eugeniusz Kwiatkowski. Its goal was to create a heavy industrial center in the middle of the country, as far as possible from any borders, strengthen the Polish economy and reduce unemployment. The four-year plan for the development of COP was scheduled from 1 September 1936 until 30 July 1940 and was interrupted by the outbreak of the Second World War and the German invasion of Poland on 1 September 1939. Nonetheless, the COP project succeeded in vastly expanding Polish industry, and after the end of the war in 1945 COP was rebuilt and expanded under the People's Republic of Poland. (...)

After WW2 when Communists asked Eugeniusz Kwiatkowski to work for them and improve Communist economy, he replied:

"I can make an omelette from whole eggs, but I cannot make whole eggs from an omelette."

Thus refusing and telling them what was his opinion about the feasibility of Communist economic theories in the real world...

 

[Lohrenswald]

Pictures can never do a city justice. It's hard to comprehend the incredibleness that is Chicago's skyline without being there. The buildings are more awesome than even the ones in NYC.

More awesome than not at all?

whaaaaaaaaaaaat goes the crowd

Anyway I guess it's probably Bergen. Oslo is more or less a copycat of other european cities these last 200 years. Bergen has its old charm, and it was more or less the only city around most of the country's history, I think. Large parts of it is on Unesco's world heritage list.

But this is kind of tough, given that Norway primarily is renowned for the nature, and not the cities, even within the country itself.

JK actually Lillestrøm is the best city

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[Domen]

^ To my previous post:

The battle around Gdynia was one of the fiercest battles of the invasion of Poland in 1939. German forces of ca. 40,000 men, 1900 machine guns and 460 artillery pieces fought against Polish forces of ca. 16,000 men, 500 machine guns and 90 artillery pieces. The battle lasted from 01.09. to 19.09.39. On the German side around 700 soldiers were killed, while on the Polish side around 2250 died. The commander of Polish forces commited suicide on the last day of the defence. After the battle Germans renamed Gdynia - Gotenhafen:


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September 14 1939, Gdynia. Informative communique of the commander of [Polish] Land Coastal Defence about the character of combats in the Coastline and situation of both sides

CHARACTERISTICS OF COMBATS.

The enemy [the Germans] is preceding their offensive actions by rapid shelling of our positions with artillery fire, under the cover of which they are moving forward numerous machine guns to the far outskirts in order to enable to move forward their own infantry and to suppress our infantry to the ground by heavy fire of all weapons (...) As it appears from testimonies of POWs, the Germans are afraid of hand-to-hand clashes. At nights they are vulnerable to counterattacks from our side, during which they abandon heavy weapons and withdraw, barricade themselves inside buildings and compact settlements, defending with use of machine guns and hand grenades. At daytime they fill windows, trees, bushes, etc. with machine guns, using which they are shelling our units. (...)

 

[Leifmk]

JK actually Lillestrøm is the best city

Now that's comedy!

 

[Pangur Bán]

Sadly Scotland didn't really have anything that could be called a city until the early modern era. But Edinburgh, formerly Dún Etin, is the world's fourth most beautiful city according to the Rough Guide.

It's an Enlightenment city built around a Celtic hill fort that oversaw the northern side of Dere Street.

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[The_J]

I'm torn between Amsterdam, Haarlem, Delft and Breda, though I decide to go ahead with Breda (and no, you don't say Bre-da, you say Bray-dah):

Have only been to Amsterdam, seems I need to go to the rest ^^.
But Nijmegen, Utrecht + Maastricht are also nice (at least the inner cities).

Random pick: Maastricht:

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For Germany: No idea, I've been only to very few places in Germany.

 

[Hygro]

Maastrict and Nijmegen are very nice, but Maastricht feels low key more German than it does Dutch. Nijmegen has a few too many modernist boxes dominating its otherwise gentle skyline. Both have an unusual Dutch feature of having elevation changes. I never say Delft, Haarlem, or Breda. Next time.

 

[Lohrenswald]

Now that's comedy!

You might find this interessting

I think local politicians have a little bit of megalomania about the whole city-thing

 

[gay_Aleks]

elevation changes

Sinking down to the bottom of the sea is one hell of an elevation change.

 

[W|M]

Both have an unusual Dutch feature of having elevation changes.

Salvador has a bit of an elevation change as well:

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Niterói, where I'm from, has some nice sunsets:

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[Ice_Tyrant]

For where I've actually seen, the prettiest city.... might be Cincinatti or maybe Chatanooga?

Though as far as places I didn't just drive past though, I'll go with Columbus Ohio. I'm from some small town in Kentucky. It's big by Kentucky standards, but well that's Kentucky standards. Walking around the downtown of an actual city was, at the age of 22 sadly, a whole new thing for me.

As far as in general... I like Salt Lake City, but I think I'll go with Honolulu.

 

[Leifmk]

You might find this interessting

I think local politicians have a little bit of megalomania about the whole city-thing

I actually live near Lillestrøm (same municipality) and you can have our local politicians because I sure don't want them.

 

[Thorgalaeg]

It is difficult to choose one in Spain, too many to choose one, and even the worst ones can be beautiful from some point of view. Anyway i will post some shots of Ronda:

 

[Samson]

It is difficult to choose one in Spain, too many to choose one, and even the worst ones can be beautiful from some point of view. Anyway i will post some shots of Ronda:

That is really spectacular, the 1st one here that I feel I must see for myself.