What's the best looking city/town in Europe in terms of architecture?

What's the best looking city/town in Europe in terms of architecture?

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Any answer other than Prague would be false

For some reason all towns and cities in the Danube Basin are really beautiful, they are the heartland of Europe, well, except the Romanian part, of course. ;)

That's kind of a loaded question because there is so many different styles of architecture, and they all look good for where they are.

Central European architecture, is a lot different from Spanish or Italian for example, and they look good for their regions climate.

I'm speaking of course for old traditional architecture not that bland, soulless, modernist shit.

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THIS, comparing Rome to Paris is apples to oranges even though both are monumental cities with their fair share of marble and cast bronze sculptures. Then maybe you prefer Prague or Buda or Vienna. Then there's the picturesque small towns in a lot of different styles. Europe would be hard to narrow down to a single city.

Bavaria obviously

Its Prague

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>Australian education

all these "comfy european cities" look the same

OK here

In Europe, I've only been around the South of England and Paris.

Bath has to be the nicest city in the South though it is loaded with tourists (mostly Asian). I still haven't made it to Kent which I'm curious to see for Canterbury. I might be going to Compton, Surrey this weekend for the Watts museum and chapel. The chapel doors are pic-related. England's architecture is underrated probably because few venture out of London.

As for Paris, the Ile de la Cité is quite nice with Notre Dame and that little palace with Saint Sulpice. Versailles is amazing, but there were so many tourists that it was rather unpleasant to visit. I don't necessarily hate tourists per se, but massive crowds make for an unpleasant viewing experience.

t. Yank

Firenze

SOUTHERN BRAZIL

delet

Garmisch, Germany, duh.

Why are you here? Do you like it here?

Probably connecting to his heritage. His father was, after all, Miller and the mother was O'Hara.

Poland has lots of the finest cities, for example, Warsaw, Krakow, Poznan, Gdansk and so on.
Poland is equal with the whole Western Europe.

>tfw live literally 1 hour in train away from that place
>never went

is it worth it?

Your opinion is biased though because you are the Polishboo.

He's right about Poznan.

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Only nice """"Polish""" cities are German.

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Prague is ok as long as you don't stray too far away from the center.

depends if you like Southern or Northern more, I like the mediterranean style with its many variations.

I've been to Prague and yes the outskirts are full of brutalist plattenbaus but the ratio of traditional architecture to brutalism is unusually high for former communist Europe.

thats' some disgusting warcraft looking city.

Maybe it's the lighting, but it looks to be in disrepair. Shame to see such art crumble like that.

Especially since if it gets too bad they'll tear it down and replace it with a shitty modernist glass box.

WW2 mostly went around us, we didn't get bombed to shit and the Prague uprising was actually succesful so most of Prague was still left standing so commies didn't have a reason to build awful shit everywhere.

Still, there are some reminders.

I really really don't like Americans coming here and making that kind of comments while knowing nothing, why don't you complain about graffiti too?

Not saying it's your fault for not being able to afford to repair it, just saying it's a shame.

Don't get so defensive.

CE architecture is actually pretty close to Italian thanks to catholic culture. Especially the palaces and churches built in renesance and baroque. Many Italian architects built Prague.

Yeah, but the colors used are still different and match the setting. Plus there is still plenty of medieval and Gothic stuff around the later Renaissance and 19th century stuff.

there's nothing to repair, that's bare rock.

also that's the point of southern architecture, it looks old and ruined to begin with and you are yank as fuck for wanting it "fixed", tick to Bavarian villages.

I got no problem with representative buildings like Kongresove centrum, Kotva, Federalni shromáždění, Nova scena and so on. Imho these were very well done and Czech architects did a good job on these. What's ruining Czech cities and towns are poorly made commieblock areas and their urbanism. Sometimes the old cozy neighbourhoods were destroyed for awful commie blocks as in case of Přerov, Klatovy or of course Most.

You need to calm down Giovanni, wasn't trying to be hostile.

>germs call a ex-capital of Poland they occupied for 123 years their own clay
Just stop it already.

W-we have this kind of cities as well.

Pictures of Edinburgh look nice, does it have significant portions of ugly post-ww2 modernist shit or no?

Amsterdam is a gem when it comes to architecture. A lot more to see than, say, Prague, or any other generic Germanic comfy city.

Either way, a lot of the "historical" buildings in Poland were built after 1945.

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Any cunts with gothic architecture are aces.

I'd much rather have the old styles be rebuilt, than the shitty modernist crap.

Germany gave bullshit excuses saying they couldn't afford to rebuild using traditional architecture, but fucking commie pols were apparently able to.

Warsaw is just like that, the """""""old town""""""" is literally brand new old looking buildings. Dumb American tourist might fall for the meme, though.

>I'd much rather have the old styles be rebuilt, than the shitty modernist crap.
Same here.

I'm pretty calm I just like to bast Americans.

but it has a different feel to it all, still good lookig.

>I'm pretty calm I just like to bast Americans.

Well when you grow up your whole in shitty burgerville you end up ignorant, it's not our fault.

work on Bratislava already you we wuzz cuck

The Dutch excel at architecture desu

are suburian mcmansions the reason you tell us to "fix" things?

Not anymore apparently.

Decay and ruin have a beauty of their own and tell deep stories. Americans typically have an Anglo mindset that emphasizes clinical environments.

Their architects influenced this very world like no other country.

not really

Were not used to old stone shit I guess. Everything here is made out of wood.

beautiful

you and me get it friend.

It's part of that kind of beauty, if it was all nice and straight it would lose most of it.

Decayed ruin brings an emotion of defeat and lost greatness to us.

If something is repaired and well kept it's sign of prosperity and success.

Berlin

Have you ever noticed how shit is google image search?
Why have nobody yet invented an image search engine that would go through quality images first?

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Budapest,Prague

There is a common theme though.

Try bing

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If you are able to look past the huge pile of shits and only stay in Charlottenburg and Mitte, this is actually a decent answer

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Bologna is very underrated,
it's unique corridor architecture is beautiful
and it's everywhere in the city

you have canals in Venice
you have corridors in Bologna

Hmm.

3 city is ok if you stay in the center of Gdańsk or Sopot.

There are many beautiful Italian cities. But the corridors in Bologna are indeed great, I loved them. It gives you a completely different perception of the city.

Turin has quite a few as well

I do find historical Paris amazing

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I'm getting back to you a bit late. Bear in mind my opinion mostly applies to the South. I've only only been in the Midlands for a weekend in Stratford-upon-Avon, if that even counts. I'm aware of the differences between regions especially when people talk about "up North."

Why: My girlfriend's family is from here.

Do I like it: Frankly, yes. Here in the South, the weather isn't as bad as some people make it out to be. Just yesterday we had some clear skies and girls were out in their shorts. I've never had a rude encounter in the six months I've spent here on separate visits. It's God's country outside of London and even London I don't mind that much. I dislike how dense the cities are, but with that said, to get into nature one doesn't need to go very far.

People here are very general and day-to-day conversations seem to be more about exchanging pleasantries than anything particular. Lots of "how are you, my dear?" "Oh, everything is so lovely, so lovely." I like this because it slows things down a bit and is very cozy, however, I miss the sort of debate and sparring that goes on in American conversations about subjects like politics. Nonetheless, I can see why friendships here seem to be longer lasting than they are in the US. If you talk about nothing, there's nothing to lose.

Canterbury is nice. Kent is known as the "Garden of England", but it's very flat. Also you shouldn't restrict yourself to inland, Britain has thousands of miles of lovely coastline.

that's a big river

lol

for boats

Italy and rural Britain has nicest little towns imo.

Bordeaux for big cities

Vienna

And Colmar for villages

I'd be affraid to go to France nowdays tbqh familia.

I am just leaving this here:
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Is it true that European cities are unlivable hellholes filled with muslims and africans trying to rob, rape, and behead you on every corner?

Or is that just Sup Forums memes?

Do you even get any traditional German culture like that anymore?

If you leave the center of Paris or use the Subway your chances of getting robbed or worse rise by 100000000%. A pic of the center dosn't give justice to cities.

All architecture is inherently ugly, most don't know this

Wtf are you racist? European culture is shit, especially German!
Nie wieder Deutschland! Germany, never again!

It might be true for Paris or Marseille, but that's it. The rest is just Sup Forums bullshits.

Sup Forums memes, just do not go to shitholes and you will be fine
also I went to london last year and it is full of pakis and indians that meme is real

Bearlin
ampelmann save us.

Yes

But then again, all cities are unlivable hellholes, regardless of whether they're filled with foreigners or not.

when I've spent a couple of days in Berlin two years ago the only time I saw niggers was walking across a bridge near Kreuzberg late at night
they were selling drugs ofc

Paris and Milan are total shitholes tho, full of africans, arabs and pajeets

If old architecture, Swiss and Greek looks great imo
for modern, Netherlands is pretty good. They were heavily bombed in WW2 so they made loads of new buildings
Old part of cities in my area just look medievalesque but its quite comfy for some reason

>Nie wieder Deutschland! Germany, never again!
I'd probably cream my pants if I heard a crowd of Germans yelling that eagerly in the middle of a German city.

Fuck off, you nationalist cunt!
We will liberate you from your nationalist and destructive views!