Top 10 Most Distinguishable Major Cities in the World

[Chitowner86]

Originally Posted by gres

Since when do Prague, Warsaw, Krakow, Vienna etc. have UFO-shaped bridges? Or a cool modern one like the Apollo most (not that far from the city center at that)? One glance at the square castle on the hill or/and the UFO and you know it’s Bratislava. Add the new “old” bridge and little Bratislava has 3 interesting bridges. Meanwhile Vienna has like none?

And Sofia’s NDK (National Palace Of Culture) is unique and huge. It screams Sofia the way the antic theatre screams Plovdiv.

Vienna has no landmarks and has only unremarkable or tiny bridges on the Danube. Most are just roads going over the Danube. I will never visit Vienna again, most overrated place, even more than Prague. After Bratislava I was disappointed. Doesn’t look like an empire capital without a fancy bridge! Budapest has at least one fancy bridge, it looks more like it was the capital of the empire and not the dull Vienna. Apart from the castle Wien didn’t have any special or unique landmarks. Just your typical Germanic city. Most places in German speaking Europe vary from dull or gray (Berlin, Munich, Vienna) to ugly (Nuremberg). But at least Berlin has the Brandenburg thing. Vienna doesn’t really have a landmark like Berlin, Paris, London, Rome, Athens. As I said Bratislava and Budapest have at least 2.

From central Europe the only city I recognize is Budapest. The Danube and the parliament gives it up.

Prague, Warsaw, zagreb, i need to be told its those cities.


Berlín you can identify if they show the vintage images of the wall, or the Alexander platz tower but most people around the world don't know that tower and the wall is gone. So technically, berlin is not really a city you can identify easily.

[easthome]

Originally Posted by erasure

Mmmm...
No. To be honest, those would make me puzzle a bit.

But one glance at Big Ben, and you know we are speaking London.
One glance at Eiffel Tower, and you know we are talking Paris.
One glance at Kremlin/St. Basil, and it's Moscow, no doubts.


I guess it's all about certain landmarks, when it comes to cities recognition.
New York is probably the only exception, ( but even then the Statue of Liberty helps a great deal.)

This century the London eye is 'perhaps' more iconic than 'the clock'? Also Nelsons column (the lions) in Trafalgar Square is incredibly popular (iconic?) with the tourists. Ultimately though Venice has to be the most easily recognised world city (for obvious reasons).

[gres]

For Berlin I think the TV tower is also a landmark. For Sofia the TV tower on the Vitosha mountain is one of the landmarks, at least in the country itself.