What's the most beautiful city in the UK?

[StarryBelle]

Why? Any photos?

St David’s the Bishoos palace. The cathedral. The peninsula

How lovely!😊 thanks for info👍 am looking for Winter break

Would love to go o Switz ... what are your top 3 areas?

It’s been about twenty odd years since I lived there and I didn’t tour around it like a tourist as I had very young children. The German part and the French part are as beautiful as each other (as is the Italian part). It’s more that I didn’t come across any horrible areas. I was there for a couple of years, work connected. I’ve still not really come to terms with the visual contrast between there and here in the U.K. it was beautiful every turn you took. I wish I could retire there but you need a lot of money. Both Geneva and Zurich are beautiful cities, Zurich is bigger. If I could retire there I’d move to the Montreux area but only because I know it well. You could plonk me anywhere and it would be lovely.

Thanks @BunnyLake - that sounds magnificent ... I will have to do a tour!

Tbf, even Switzerland has some ugly bits along urban railway tracks, and places where there's a big factory, warehouses or tower blocks plonked amid lovely scenery because they've got nowhere else to put them.

Some parts of Ely are rather lovely.

But Switzerland is extremely boring, stupidly expensive and full of nanny state rules and regulations. Give me quirky old industrial Manchester any day…

St David's

I love switzerland! I think it's the nicest place I've ever been to

Edinburgh
Shrewsbury
York

It's beautiful. The city centre has the street regularly voted the beautiful street in England, Grey Street, with lovely honey stone Georgian buildings sweeping from Greys Monument (Lord Grey - helped abolish slavery) down to the quay side. Quayside is full of bars and restaurants. Shopping area extensive, Northumberland Street and Eldon Square shopping mall. Lovely cathedral and castle. Baltic Arts Centre is free to get in - you walk along the quayside and cross the winking eye bridge. And the 19th century Turkish Bath house has just been restored too!

Oxford and Cambridge

Edinburgh is a city that is perfect for exploring on foot, renowned for its seamless blend of history and culture. Highly recommended!

TBF we never had decades of being an unregulated tax haven for gold, assets and money so the UK has never had as much cash to spend on infrastructure as Switzerland. Maybe we'd have nicer buildings if we'd got hold of a bunch of nazi gold instead of putting ourselves in hock to the USA to stop the Nazis.

Cambridge for heart stopping beauty.

i just find it a bit twee and dull.

Oxford? Oxford is pants.

The river in Oxford is pretty.
My friend knew an Indian gentleman who told him 'Cambridge is beautiful with its dreaming towers and minarets'.
Places like Gloucester and Peterborough are a bit rough around the edges, but the cathedrals are fabulous...I thought the same about Canterbury!
I liked Lincoln.And Milton Keynes.

Quite agree! I never go into town in the run up to Christmas!

I have to agree with Edinburgh(was born there), and love visiting and it has so much going for it. Was brought up near Oxford and outside of the churches, musuems etc in the centre, it really isn't that nice.

Oxford is beautiful, one of my favourite cities.

Lincoln is lovely so long as you're in reasonable shape. Apart from the cathedral and castle at the top, the development by the river, with the uni on the other side, is good.

I’m twee and dull so it suits me. I lived there over twenty years ago and I still miss it. I’m older so I don’t need the ‘excitement’ of a Manchester or Birmingham. Give me beautiful scenery and a clean and beautiful town any day.

I would like to live in Bath but can’t afford it.

@BunnyLake I am inspired by your enthusiam for Switz - now planning a trip ...cant decide to go for the winter snow or the summer green....?