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London
Great Britain : England

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Paris
Ile de France

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Amsterdam
Noord-Holland

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Roma
Lazio

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Berlin

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Brussels
Brussels-Capital Region

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Edinburgh
Great Britain : Scotland

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Brilliant city with so much to offer. That is why it is the UKs most visited city outside London.

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Venezia
Veneto

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Versailles
Ile de France : Yvelines

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Milano
Lombardia : Provincia Di Milano

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Firenze
Toscana

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Copenhagen
Hovedstaden

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Salzburg
Salzburg (state)

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Praha
Bohemia

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Lisboa
Grande Lisboa

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Bruges
Flanders : West Flanders

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Antwerp
Flanders : Antwerp (province)

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Stockholm
Stockholms Län

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Rotterdam
Zuid-Holland

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Oxford
Great Britain : England : Oxfordshire

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Glasgow
Great Britain : Scotland

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As much as I love this city I actual work here with Equator Digital Agency. There is so much to do in Glasgow that you will never be bored.

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Zürich
Canton of Zürich

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Liverpool
Great Britain : England : Merseyside

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Brilliant city. The Liverpudlians are crazy people but nice.

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Köln
Nordrhein-Westfalen

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Frankfurt am Main
Hessen

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Apr 06, 2006, 03:12AM PDT

czechnewwaver
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Where are Milan and Dresden?

Or Lucern, Switzerland, among others?

Aug 10, 2006, 10:40AM PDT
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Tadeusz598
Florianópolis

Yes, the list is quite excentric.

Nov 20, 2006, 02:51PM PST
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Tadeusz598
Florianópolis

Yes, Leipzig, and Weimar should also be here.

Nov 21, 2006, 05:32AM PST
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prc152
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The incompleteness of this list troubles me

also… manchester, liverpool, monaco, cork, geneva, lyon, toulouse, naples,

Aug 10, 2006, 10:47AM PDT
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Tadeusz598
Florianópolis

Cork! You’ve got to be kidding. Apart from the cathedral there’s nothing there. You would have to include Ely on those grounds.

Bristol perhaps.

And what about Oxford and Cambridge?

Nov 21, 2006, 05:35AM PST
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Aug 17, 2006, 12:23PM PDT

Tadeusz598
Florianópolis

Italian cities are being maligned!

Good suggestion.

Italy is especially poorly served. I’m not sure if Milan, Naples, Sienna or Padua are on it either.

Nov 20, 2006, 02:53PM PST
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Ameerah
Dubai

Moscow??

Hmmm … am i thick or is moscow in europe??? I am a flight attendant and fly there allot just never knew i went to Europe lol

Sep 02, 2006, 07:44PM PDT
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PeetTheEngineer
Zürich

Asia start behind the Ural. Russia is in Europe and Asia.

Sep 17, 2006, 08:21PM PDT
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salamista
Bratislava

This list was at first list of all capital cities, then some other people made few changes, but Moscow as capital of Russia stayed there.

Oct 10, 2006, 12:03PM PDT
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Tadeusz598
Florianópolis

Moscow is within the European part of Russia.

Nov 20, 2006, 02:49PM PST
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Oct 18, 2006, 01:15PM PDT

Tadeusz598
Florianópolis

No it shouldn’t.

Nov 21, 2006, 05:38AM PST
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Girlbrush Freakwood
Helsinki

Can anyone tell me what’s so notable about Stuttgart? What about Palma de Mallorca, apart from its situation on a nice and popular island..? Anyway, I think there’s too much of Germany and Spain in this list.

Nov 12, 2006, 10:48AM PST
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Tadeusz598
Florianópolis

I am not sure about Stuttgart. It has a major modern art museum and an airport, but not much more.

Palma de Majjorca has a splendid cathedral, of course, but I agree, it seems odd to include it when, say Naples and St Petersburg are absent.

Nov 20, 2006, 03:41PM PST
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Tadeusz598
Florianópolis

St petersburg

St Petersburg is missing, whis just silly when they include Belfast.

Italy should be better served.

I guess they wanted to spread the cities all over Europe, but the truth is that Italy just punches above its size:

Padua,

Sienna

Turin

Trieste

Naples,

Palermo,

Milan

Bologna

Nov 20, 2006, 03:00PM PST
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Girlbrush Freakwood
Helsinki

I deleted stupid Stuttgart and Palma de Mallorca now and added St. Petersburg instead, so that it’s 50 again now. I think Belfast is kinda notable for its troubles with stubborn catholics and protestants. And I don’t know much about these Italian places, I’m afraid.

Nov 20, 2006, 05:41PM PST
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Tadeusz598
Florianópolis

The Italian places are all fairly large, except for Sienna and Padua, which I included because of their importance as a Renaissance cities.

Nov 20, 2006, 06:40PM PST
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Lisili
Jena

I guess, you wouldn’t say that about Belfast, if you’ve ever been there! Consider the historical importance regarding Anglo-irish politics and its outcome on American history and lifestyle. I promise: Belfast will give you goose bumps.

Can’t say the same of all those Italian cities – just gave me headaches because of the crowds of tourists!

Feb 18, 2009, 12:16AM PST
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Tadeusz598
Florianópolis

Notable cities: a points system?

It seems to me that the list could easily be expanded to include about 80 cities.

I would suggest that the criteria have to be refined substantially.

a. Are the cities in question notable for historical events? or as capitals?

Should population size be the criteria, with larger cities being given priority?

c. Or is architecture the main thing?

d. Or economic importance?

e. Or cultural facilities? (museums, galleries, libraries, bookshops

f. Food and Drink?

Perhaps one could develop a points system, according points to each of these criteria, so that Paris, which is important for a all six would be awarded the maximum of 60 points, while Bruges, which is only important in point c. and e. would get 20 points.

London is the only other city that would get this maximum score.

A city like Warsaw, which is medium sized would get 10 for historical events, only 5 for population, five for economic importance and perhaps 5 for architecture, and 5 for cultural facilities and 5 for food, totalling get 30 points (I may be being generous here).

Only cities which reached up to 30 points would be included?

What do you think?

Nov 21, 2006, 05:50AM PST
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Girlbrush Freakwood
Helsinki

This is an interesting suggestion, but would be quite a hazzle… And actually I think one aspect could be enough to make a city notable – but there has to be at least one aspect that makes the place more worth visiting than most other European cities. And I think there shouldn’t be more than 50 cities on the list.

So how about looking for each city’s main justification, such as

Brussels: capital of European Union
Rome: historical center of Roman Empire that shaped much of Europe
Berlin: history of east/west division (city, country, continent)

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If there is no special reason for a city to be part of this list, then it can be deleted.

Nov 23, 2006, 11:26AM PST
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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.

Nov 23, 2006, 12:18PM PST
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Girlbrush Freakwood
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 ;)

Nov 23, 2006, 01:22PM PST
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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.

Nov 23, 2006, 02:01PM PST
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wysiwyg
Southampton

interesting list, but...

if Birmingham is worth putting on the list, then so are a whole load more cities. It is worth visiting, but not necessarily in the context of this list I think.