Notable Cities of Europe

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Tadeusz598

Tadeusz598
Florianópolis

Your suggestion has the merit of simplicity.

But I am not sure whether it follows through that a place which is important for historical reasons is necessarily therefore interesting or worthwhile to visit.

For instance, for a time Aachen was the centre of the Holy Roman empire, but apart from a small cathedral, there is really very little to see there.

And there would remain the difficulty of weighing the importance of one criteria over another.

Does the fact that Brussels is head of the EC make it more “listworthy” than a second city of less contemporary significance, such as, say St Petersburg?

But very few people would chose to visit Bruussels over St Petersburg…unless they were mentally ill.

Bla Deblah

Bla Deblah
Helsinki

Ok, I tried to make it short, but like that it wasn’t obvious enough…

A place of historical importance is not necessarily interesting, but the main reason for Rome is its history which has left lots of interesting sites.

Brussels’ notability, for example, is more arguable. Yet it’s a big city in the middle of Europe, it’s multilingual, there’s some notable architecture that made it a world heritage place, you can visit the EU headquarters, and many people might indeed just be curious about the “European capital”.

I just think there should be a comment on each of the cities. Like that, it could become more obvious that some of them should better be replaced by, for example, some of your Italian places.

But if you feel like suggesting a complex ranking system, you’re of course welcome to do that ;)

Tadeusz598

Tadeusz598
Florianópolis

Thanks…no it wasn’t obvious what you were suggesting.

You still haven’t said how you would resolve the inevitable conflicts between the listing of x city versus y city, which is why this discussion started in the first place, and which my points sysytem was intended to, at least formalise the terms of.

I shall attempt to produce a more rigourously evaluated list of fifty cities.

Bla Deblah

Bla Deblah
Helsinki

Well, I kinda expect some of the listed cities to turn out to be not too notable…

And I guess there’ll be conflicts anyway, as this is a community list and not everyone will agree with your (or our, or any) criteria.

Apart from that, I love systems like the one you suggested. I love to work on stuff like that. But now I have to work for university…