What's the most beautiful city in the world?

[Bereta_Eder]

Paris, hands down.

sorry ren but is your city really named townsville or am I incredibly thick?

[Zylka]

Paris is gorgeous from a birds eye view.. and even from the streets when aimed at nice picturesque landmarks.. but isn't that the "dogshlt city", where canines run loose (often into restaurants) and trash is thrown everywhere (lack of garbage cans)? I've also heard it's real fun to go to the public bathrooms there, piss in a communal grate facing each other, and crouching to take a shlt in a little trough.

[Bereta_Eder]

I didn't notice any problems with garbage or dogsh!t.

What charms me about Paris is that it is a city that has everything. Really. You can just walk by the Sikouana river (in english?) just browsing at the little gravour kiosks then chill out at the chick bistros and then go out at night.

I'm not particularly interested for monuments, museums and sightseeings except maybe the first days.

Just to hang around and waste your time (around all the beautiful buildings and monuments). Paris is THE city to do just that.

[Pekka]

Gotta go for Korso. It's great!

[MrWhereItsAt]

Townsville?! I visited once and never realized since - THE City of Townsville? "Fighting crime, trying to save-" Sorry.

Sydney, even the people there are all disgusting beautiful. But that's a plastic city.

My real pick is Chiang Mai, Thailand - half for the city (little pollution, foothills of the Himalayas setting, many ancient monuments just dotted around) and half for the people, who are the defining character of a city. It isn't the most ordered city in the world, but it has a chaotic beauty, and with that much tropical vegetation it has no need of sterile city parks!

[Kaak]

You know, austin has to be up there somewhere too...

[Buck Birdseed]

For African cities, I hear Lamu is brilliant, but short of having gone there myself, Zanzibar Town is great. For situation you can hardly beat Iringa, Tanzania, which is on the top of a tall, flat mountain, a kind of natural fort. Brilliant.

[Saint Marcus]

Venice of course. Absolutely magnificent city.

[Solver]

Tenochtitlan. And I mean it serious. I've not been there 500 years ago, but from what I've seen it slightly bests the others.

[Goingonit]

So many choices.

-Vancouver: probably the most naturally beautiful in North America

-Chicago: amazing skyline - better than NYC in that respect

-Venice: Venice is very nice as long as you are looking away from a canal. Very dirty water, but the Doge's Palace, St. Mark's Square, etc. are beautiful.

-Granada: amazingly pretty, with the Sierra Nevada and the Alhambra.

[Andemagne]

pekka: mene hukkaan sen korsos kans!

och samma på engelska:
about korso that pekka mentioned,
been there, seen it, and did not like it!

[Bas]

Den Hoorn. No contest.

Edit: the picture is too big, I guess. Here's the link instead...

http://www.hetgoudenboltje.nl/texel/SimonSmit/lf_den-hoorn.htm

[Heresson]

Siena is nice.
I remember I liked Moscow a lot, too

[Cairo_East]

I like the wide sweep of answers this post has gotten. It's really a difficult thing to answer since there are so many different places and different ways of quantifying beauty. We could have a post over the most beautiful city in northern Italy and have as many disparate answers as this post, for the same reasons.

[Mikael]

Rio de Janeiro, "a cidade maravilhosa"...

Prague

Venise

Firenze