02-03-2002 05:26									#31
	Put an end to popups!

quote: Originally posted by Provost Harrison I bet Babylon would've been a cool place to visit if it had still existed!

Saddam Hussain was rebuilding it a while ago (out of cheap concrete)

	02-03-2002 05:27									#32
	Put an end to popups!

quote: Originally posted by Case Saddam Hussain was rebuilding it a while ago (out of cheap concrete)

Also hiding a nuclear silo in it from rumors I heard.

	02-03-2002 06:13									#33
	Increase Your PM Length

Lucern is nice so is Paris.

Indy is too dull to be a dark horse its more like a black potato or rock.

	02-03-2002 06:15									#34
	Support Apolyton, buy Call to Power 2

I highly doubt that Saddam has nukes. And I highly doubt that even he would hide one in that city.


My favorite? Limerick, in Ireland.
My second favorite? New York.

For a more complete lise, lemme just go hit F11, or go to the world menu, and pull up the top five cities chart...
It looks like the top five are:
London, Washington, New York, Hastings, Boston.

This is with me as the English, and having taken over America.

Steele

	02-03-2002 06:47									#35
	Lose 30 kilos (of popups)

Most beautiful city I have ever seen is Vancouver, bar none.

As a city, Anchorage is crap, but its setting is absolutely awe-inspiring.

	02-03-2002 07:11									#36
	Support Apolyton, buy Civilization 2

Barcelona isn't bad, Gaudi (sp!) is amazing and mopeds are cute and Granada deserves to be listed just because of the Alhambra...

Middletown is more

	02-03-2002 07:12									#37
	Got spare money?

I vote for Prague.

	02-03-2002 07:36									#38
	Support Apolyton buy from Amazon

I don't think Prague is the most beautiful. But it's my favorite.

Washington is quite nice.

After considering all the factors, I guess I haven't seen enough of the world to judge. I've never been to Asia or Africa.

	02-03-2002 08:18									#39
	Support Apolyton buy from Amazon

Newburyport.





Those pictures don't do her justice, however.

	02-03-2002 09:13									#40
	Suffering from ads?

quote: Originally posted by Guynemer Most beautiful city I have ever seen is Vancouver, bar none.

Yup, nothing more beautiful than the addicts and drunks puking their guts out on East Hastings.

But, the skyline view is fantastic.

	02-03-2002 09:26									#41
	Put an end to popups!

quote: Originally posted by Giancarlo Also hiding a nuclear silo in it from rumors I heard.

I heard once that during the Persian Gulf war, Saddam was hiding weapons in the ruins of Ur and that the USA bombed the ruins.

Is it true?

	02-03-2002 11:10									#42
	Suffering from ads?

Swansea, hands down...........

Honestly, I would have to say Montreal. I really can't tell you why, I just get all warm and fuzzy thinkin' 'bout that place.

	02-03-2002 11:41									#43
	Help yourself to an AD-FREE life

Vancouver of B.C. Canada...

	02-03-2002 12:42									#44
	In my opinion, Support Apolyton, buy Galactic Civilizations: Deluxe Edition

Santa Barbara, California

	02-03-2002 13:17									#45
	Get a bigger avatar today!

I really have no idea, as I have never left my home country -Australia- but from photos I can safely say that Paris is pretty nice, as is my hometown, Townsville

	02-03-2002 13:46									#46
	Support Apolyton, buy GURPS/ Alpha Centauri

Paris, hands down.

sorry ren but is your city really named townsville or am I incredibly thick?

	02-03-2002 14:23									#47
	Support Apolyton buy from Amazon

Paris is gorgeous from a birds eye view.. and even from the streets when aimed at nice picturesque landmarks.. but isn't that the "dogshlt city", where canines run loose (often into restaurants) and trash is thrown everywhere (lack of garbage cans)? I've also heard it's real fun to go to the public bathrooms there, piss in a communal grate facing each other, and crouching to take a shlt in a little trough.

	02-03-2002 14:36									#48
	Put an end to popups!

I didn't notice any problems with garbage or dogsh!t.

What charms me about Paris is that it is a city that has everything. Really. You can just walk by the Sikouana river (in english?) just browsing at the little gravour kiosks then chill out at the chick bistros and then go out at night.

I'm not particularly interested for monuments, museums and sightseeings except maybe the first days.

Just to hang around and waste your time (around all the beautiful buildings and monuments). Paris is THE city to do just that.

	02-03-2002 15:36									#49
	Tired of ads?

Gotta go for Korso. It's great!

	02-03-2002 15:54									#50
	Remove this text

Townsville?! I visited once and never realized since - THE City of Townsville? "Fighting crime, trying to save-" Sorry.

Sydney, even the people there are all disgusting beautiful. But that's a plastic city.

My real pick is Chiang Mai, Thailand - half for the city (little pollution, foothills of the Himalayas setting, many ancient monuments just dotted around) and half for the people, who are the defining character of a city. It isn't the most ordered city in the world, but it has a chaotic beauty, and with that much tropical vegetation it has no need of sterile city parks!

	02-03-2002 15:56									#51
	Support Apolyton, buy Galactic Civilizations: Deluxe Edition

You know, austin has to be up there somewhere too...

	02-03-2002 18:01									#52
	Support Apolyton, buy Call to Power 2

For African cities, I hear Lamu is brilliant, but short of having gone there myself, Zanzibar Town is great. For situation you can hardly beat Iringa, Tanzania, which is on the top of a tall, flat mountain, a kind of natural fort. Brilliant.

	02-03-2002 18:58									#53
	Support Apolyton buy from Amazon

Venice of course. Absolutely magnificent city.

	02-03-2002 19:07									#54
	Put an end to popups!

Tenochtitlan. And I mean it serious. I've not been there 500 years ago, but from what I've seen it slightly bests the others.

	02-03-2002 19:13									#55
	Support Apolyton, pre-order Civilization IV

So many choices.

-Vancouver: probably the most naturally beautiful in North America

-Chicago: amazing skyline - better than NYC in that respect

-Venice: Venice is very nice as long as you are looking away from a canal. Very dirty water, but the Doge's Palace, St. Mark's Square, etc. are beautiful.

-Granada: amazingly pretty, with the Sierra Nevada and the Alhambra.

	02-03-2002 20:27									#56
	Support Apolyton, buy Galactic Civilizations

pekka: mene hukkaan sen korsos kans!

och samma på engelska:
about korso that pekka mentioned,
been there, seen it, and did not like it!

	02-03-2002 21:26									#57
	Lose 30 kilos (of popups)

Den Hoorn. No contest.

Edit: the picture is too big, I guess. Here's the link instead...

http://www.hetgoudenboltje.nl/texel...f_den-hoorn.htm

	02-03-2002 21:45									#58
	Lose 30 kilos (of popups)

Siena is nice.
I remember I liked Moscow a lot, too

	03-03-2002 05:55									#59
	Support Apolyton, pre-order Civilization IV

I like the wide sweep of answers this post has gotten. It's really a difficult thing to answer since there are so many different places and different ways of quantifying beauty. We could have a post over the most beautiful city in northern Italy and have as many disparate answers as this post, for the same reasons.

	03-03-2002 07:23									#60
	Support Apolyton, buy GURPS/ Alpha Centauri

Rio de Janeiro, "a cidade maravilhosa"...

Prague

Venise

Firenze