What is a beautiful city? The one with beautiful beaches? The one that stands out for its beautiful architecture? The one that vibrates with its culture or nightlife? The one that is green and very clean?
In this selection of the most beautiful cities in the world, you will find a little of everything.
The most beautiful cities in the world:
1. Venice, Italy
The tangle of islands populated with splendid monuments and linked by beautiful bridges over the canals give the capital of Veneto a charm that grows with time.
After the obligatory gondola ride, buy a couple of blocks and travel with your partner through the labyrinthine Venetian streets.
2. Istanbul, Turkey
First, it was the Byzantium of the Greeks, then the Roman Constantinople and now it is the Istanbul of the Turks, a history of 27 centuries that has shaped one of the richest and most exciting cities on Earth.
Only the Basilica of Hagia Sophia, the summit of Byzantine architecture, is worth a visit to Istanbul. The Blue Mosque, Topkapi Palace, and Dolmabahce Palace complete a quartet of must-see attractions in Turkey's largest city.
A visit to the Grand Bazaar and the Spice Bazaar is a tremendous festival of the senses.
3. New York, USA
New York is a city of multisensory charms. From the aroma of roasted nuts and the taste of a simple hot dog on a cold winter afternoon to the Central Park color palette in fall and the brightness of the Hudson in summer, serving as the backdrop to the Statue of Liberty. Freedom.
Classic New York attractions - like the Empire State Building, Times Square, and Fifth Avenue - retain their spell no matter how many times you've seen or toured them.
4. London, UK
The English capital enlightens the world with the best museums on the planet, such as Natural History, Science and the British, and vibrates with new attractions, such as the Millennium Wheel or London Eye and 30 St Mary Ax, a popularly known building like El Gherkin.
Buildings such as the Tower of London, Tower Bridge, the Palace of Westminster and Big Ben, Westminster Abbey, Buckingham Palace, and St. Paul's Cathedral are testimonies to London's fascinating history closely related to both its old monarchy and its contributions to democracy.
Theater, music, fashion, and other facets of entertainment and culture continue to have London as one of its world centers.
5. Paris, France
Despite the commonplace, it is impossible not to include the French capital among the most beautiful cities in the world.
Just admiring how the night traffic circulates along the Avenue des Champs Elysees between the Arc de Triomphe and the Place de la Concorde and the Louvre faithfully expresses why Paris is called the City of Light.
Eating a baguette with r Roquefort cheese, with a glass of good Bordeaux, in one of the cafes on the banks of the Seine, is exquisite and romantic.
6. Hong Kong, China
A jungle of skyscrapers can be beautiful too. From El Pico, the Hong Kong concrete jungle, the harbor and the hills of the New Territories are a postcard of dreams.
Kowloon Walled City Park represents ancient China and the Clock Tower symbolizes the golden age of the early 20th century.
Parks like Hong Kong Disneyland and Ocean Park remind us that this Chinese "special administrative region" is a capitalist emporium in the world's largest communist country.
7. Amsterdam, The Netherlands
The walks through the canals of Amsterdam, called the Venice of the North, allow you to admire the wonderful physical heritage that the Dutch managed to build between water and land since the 17th century.
Although he was born in Leiden, the city that most marked Rembrandt's life was Amsterdam, where the great master of the Baroque is buried. The Rembrandt Museum in Amsterdam operates in the house where he lived and exhibits an extraordinary collection of his work.
Other must-see exhibits in Amsterdam are the National Museum (Rijksmuseum) and the Van Goh Museum.
In this city everything is done by bike, so the first thing you have to do is rent yours.
8. Saint Petersburg, Russia
Peter the Great wanted to have a city similar to Venice and ordered it to be built on the banks of the Neva, although for this he had to prohibit the use of stone in the rest of his vast empire so that it would be enough for the construction of the new capital.
Almost all the masons and workers in Russia had to move to participate in the colossal project, erecting beauties such as the Cathedral of Saint Peter and Saint Paul and the Winter Palace, now the Hermitage Museum.
The Hermitage houses more than three million works, making it one of the largest art museums in the world.
The beautiful Church of the Resurrection of Christ was erected between 1883 and 1907 on the site where Tsar Alexander II was assassinated.
9. Cape Town, South Africa
When European navigators of the 15th and 16th centuries sighted the Cape of Good Hope in the southern tip of Africa, they knew they were on the right track to the East.
The first settlement in what is now Cape Town was founded in 1652 by the Dutch Jan van Riebeeck, becoming in less than four centuries the second city in South Africa and the most important tourist destination on the continent.
The two million tourists who annually visit La Taberna de Los Mares do not go so much to drink as to surf and windsurf and dive on its beautiful beaches, as well as to see the large colony of African penguins on the Beach of the Roads.
10. Beirut, Lebanon
How many tourists would visit Beirut today if it had not been destroyed by the bloody civil war that ended in 1991?
The capital of Lebanon has been reborn from its ashes with the construction of new infrastructure and the restoration of old places.
In the new Beirut, the National Museum, the La Corniche promenade, the Mohammad al-Amin Mosque, and the beautiful campus of the American University stand out.
Beirut faces the Mediterranean and fabulous hotels have been installed on its beaches. Lebanon was a colony of France between 1860 and 1943 and Beirut cuisine is a delicious Arab-French fusion.
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