Your Top 3 European cities to visit and why you loved them

[mumma24]

so many wonderful cities to choose from.

Amsterdam
Dubrovnik
Verona

Venice - just amazing. I'm not sure it counts as it's so different to everywhere else.
Paris - never tire of it
Munich - for the beer gardens

Oh good to see Bruge on here as I'm going in And gust.
I love Granada (the Alhambra)
Rome (so much to see)
Dublin (my roots)
Paris

Lisbon.
I'm here now and it's just stunning. The architecture is beautiful and the people are lovely. Loving the food too.

Rome - lots to see and do, but we did find it quite expensive.
Budapest - lots to do, cheap and can walk everywhere.
Valencia - lovely laid back feel and nice beach.

Rome, Valencia and Athens

Vienna, Tallinn, Belgrade

Lyon!!!!!! Seriously. It's a shithole

Lisbon, Berlin, Krakow.

We're discussing this now and can't settle on three. Up to about 10 so far 🤣

Not in my opinion.

Ghent - like Bruges but better, less touristy
Vilnius - quirky museums, great value
Venice 20 years ago when it was less overrun

And six exclamation points? What is there to be so hysterical about? One sure sign of a total eejit: ‘!!!!!!!!!!!’; and ‘???????’.

Too hard to choose!
I adore a city break, it's by far my favourite type of holiday.
Some cities we have been to multiple, multiple times and others just once. If we love somewhere we like to go back and we also love trying new places.

This year we're going to Siena / Lucca / Pisa and they're all new to us.

We went back to Budapest for the first time in about 8 years last winter and really loved it. The last time we visited in Summer. We like to experience places at different times of the year too.

Prague in the winter
St Petersburg
Probably Rome for the wow factor.

Reykjavik - For the people and spas and natural beauty
Berlin - Just so Cool! Edgy, history, beer
Venice - I will never tire of the backstreets, gelato, lidos and architecture

Just come back from 3 days in Porto and it was fantastic. Food was amazing, people were really friendly and so much to see/do.

Would also add:

San Sebastian
Venice

(and if I could sneak a fourth, would be Bruges)

Malaga
Barcelona
Amsterdam

Florence for the art.
Riga for the glorious art nouveau architecture
Stockholm

Reims - champagne, and the feeling the centre's small enough to 'know'.

Lisbon
Florence
Rotterdam

Just read the second bit.
Why?
Lisbon - great atmosphere, cafes, went there with good friends and explored galleries and the waterfront. Good food
Florence - jewel like city, great food and wine, amazing shops, window shopping on the Ponte Vecchio and wandering round the Uffizi.
Rotterdam - ran the marathon there and the support they gave runners was incredible. Fun city - community feel.

I didn't answer the second question either!

San Sebastian because of the food, but also the old city is so quirky and it's a beautiful setting, right on the sea

Venice because of its history, also the food, but just so much to see by wandering around.

Rome for the history and the food
Bruges for the tranquility, the beer and the chocolate (the tour of the Half Moon brewery was fantastic). The food was pretty good too and I found Belgium very friendly
Vienna for the architecture and the cakes

Paris (just unfailingly beautiful)

Naples (not everyone's cup of tea but if you like your cities full of drama, life, art and beauty & you're not overly precious about everything looking picture-perfect in a twee kind of way it could be worth a visit- it is stunningly beautiful)

Venice (nowhere on earth like it but don't go at peak tourist season and research the areas that the locals actually live in)

(but also Lisbon, Berlin, Marseille, Vienna, St Petersburg- but probs errr not at the moment)