For the map enthused!
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be nice
Unfortunately yes for Slovakia. I mean I like Bratislava, I lived there more than a decade, it's nice but ... I feel like we have so many more interresting cities. From top of my head Banská Štiavnica and Bardejov (both UNESCO city centers) or personally I really liked Trenčín and Banská Bystrica, or Poprad being next to Tatra mountains ...
Probably Krakow (Poland), Barcelona (Spain), Dubrovnik (Croatia) and Zürich (Switzerland) and of course Istanbul (Turkey).
Not Constantinople?
Constantinople was a multicultural city with significantly large Greek and Armenian minorities, the majority of whom were expelled from there between the First World War and 1955. Today's Istanbul is what's left.
That's nobody's business but the Turks.
Point.
/whoosh
If you've a date in Constantinople, she'll be waiting in Istanbul.
Zürich ? Really ? What about Geneva ?
Zürich - 4 million nights (2024)
Geneva - 2.3 million nights (2024)
https://www.bfs.admin.ch/bfs/de/home/statistiken/tourismus.assetdetail.34307623.html
According to another source, Zurich has annually about 11 million visitors, but it didn't provide any source for that statement.
Both you and @fibojoly@sh.itjust.works are right. Your Numbers are only strictly according to the "Gemeinde", but that's not representative. That's like saying that washington d.c. doesn't have many visitors because only very few people stay at hotels in the very small district.
More accurate is to look at the "Grossregionen" at the right, where geneva triumphs.
But we also need to point out that a lot of these stays are businessmen for zurich and people from international institutions for geneva, making any comparison impossible and giving Zermatt the win in tourism (probably).
Also I'm kind of insultet that my city (Luzern) is this low. Come visit us more, you cowards!
Do you not have enough Chinese tourists on that poor bridge already? I know Switzerland generally seems to handle tourism better by simply making goddamn expensive, but do you really want it to become like Annecy? ;)
Really?! Why would people want to visit Berlin?!
In German they say "Katastrophentourismus" and I think that is beautiful
Why not? I've visited a number of German cities over the years (even Bielefeld), and Berlin was all right.
The clubs
Hey! I wanna go check out our neighbours and I've already seen Bavaria (love it) but I thought it would be nice to actually check out the capital for a change. If only so I can ride a Trabant and see the Wall and other symbolic places.
ride a Trabant
I looked it up. As someone who was last in Germany in 1994, this is hilarious to me.
My first contact was in 91 as a 13yo exchange student somewhere in the backend of Bavaria. Checkoslovakia was still a country and the Wall had only fallen two winters beforehand. Absolutely loved it, for some reason. Didn't get to come back as often as I thought I would, but every time has been a pleasure.
What else do you recommend? I got the same reaction from a German I work with but I never got to ask him that question.
Munich is the first one that came to mind for me.
Naaah. I've been to Munich, the most memorable thing was the concentration of folk clothing shops and the existence of Weisswurst museum with sausage door handles. The tech museum was nice too but the city itself - rather unmemorable.
Okay, so my comment was more a joke than a recommendation. But there is a truth to it. Berlin is generally known as an ugly and dirty city. In addition, Germany is one of the very few countries where the capital costs more money than it generates. But there are obviously still interesting and beautiful places, especially since Berlin has a rich history. And fun fact: even though the wall has been (mostly) gone for quite some years, the city is still pretty devided. For example when looking at the city form above at night, you can see the different street lights. And more importantly, the difference can also still be seen in elections, in Berlin and Germany as a whole.
I liked Berlin. Yeah, the divide is pretty visible. This makes things more interesting - at least for a tourist
Switzerland: everything is going according to plan
Our capitol is distributed.
Isn’t it officially Bern?
The Parliament and the Federal Counsel are seated in Bern, but the Federal Tribunal (Supreme Court) is in Lausanne.
There are some other federal institutions in other places, including Bellinzona and Luzern.
Switzerland doesn't have a capital.
Bern is de facto the capital, meaning going by the fact that most of the government is located in Bern.
Officially, they don't have one
Poland surprises me
Krakow, right? It's got to be Krakow?
Basically the other Polish city I know of (not really but almost)
+1 for croatia. I feel that’s only cause that’s where everyone has to fly into internationally lol
Australia would be red as fuck. Literally nobody wantss to go to Canberra, not even the government
Ha. Well, Canberra is a designed capital, so sorry government, I guess.
I guess I'm not the only one that thought Madrid was pretty meh.
