A fascinating journey, or Beautiful city names

For travelers, most often the key role is played by the place of rest, its characteristics and characteristics, rather than the name. In this case, the principle "the name does not paint the terrain, and the terrain name", and in this regard we often fall in love with the names of those cities in which we were best. Beautiful names of cities are most often found in Europe, they are pleasant and melodic sound for our ear. But in this category falls and a lot of Russian settlements, whose names are charmingly sounded in our native language.

Romance city-museums

It is believed that the most beautiful names of cities in the world are concentrated in the historical region, in the Mediterranean. It is noteworthy that this region lies between two parts of the world - Europe and Asia, and all the settlements that have ever been there or still have very beautiful names. Many cities of the former Roman Empire have survived to this day. Among them, Rome, Florence, Venice. Along with them it is possible to distinguish very beautiful names of the regions: Liguria, Tuscany, Sicily. Agree, pleasure for the hearing?

Neighbor of Italy - Greece, also has beautiful names of cities that are located on its territory. This is Athens, Kallithea, Heraklion. It is noteworthy that, in addition to the most beautiful names, these settlements have managed to preserve monuments of architecture in their territories. You can adore them forever, and gradually they will become synonymous with the names of cities.

Ancient East - refinement and beauty

It's amazing that the beautiful names of the cities of the ancient world were much more gracious especially in the territories of the Middle East. Firstly, it is the center of the birth of Akkadian civilization, the city of Ashur. Several centuries later, the magnificent Nineveh came to replace him. In the south of the same Mesopotamia was the king of all the powers of the time - Babylon with his famous, still not dug out of golden sands, a tower. On the territory of Egypt, there are two megalopolises with the most beautiful names - Memphis and Alexandria. In today's Turkey, which used to be called Anatolia and Cappadocia (also very attractive names for hearing), there was the legendary city of Troy, famous for its history with a wooden horse.

Well, Syria has such beautiful names of cities as Damascus, Alalah, Amarna and others. It is noteworthy that most of the above names have survived to this day. An exception can be considered Memphis, who changed his name to no less beautiful - Cairo.

Spain - a modern fount of uniqueness

The country, located in the south-west of the European continent, is famous for having beautiful city names. We will not list them, but only walk through the most famous ones, which are unique not only with their sound, but also in architecture.

Start a trip to Spain, perhaps, is from Catalonia, where the metropolis of Barcelona. This name has been thundering all over the world for many centuries and appears in the creative sphere of life, then in sports, then in tourism.

Below is located Valencia, and even closer to the south stretched area of Costa Dorada, Costa del Sol, Costa Brava. Among the cities of this country can be identified a complex, but very beautiful name - La Manga del Mar Menor. It is important to note that the Spanish colonization of the country of South America caused the spread of this culture to wider territories. So, beautiful names of cities that are pronounced and written in this language can be found in Mexico, Colombia, Argentina and many other countries.

Far and mysterious North

The names of Scandinavian settlements are also recognized as the most beautiful. It is important to note that Romano-Germanic and Fino-Ugric peoples coexist on this peninsula, therefore the names of local geographical units are fundamentally different. With rigor and grandeur, the capital of Sweden , the city of Stockholm, is filled. Alongside him appear Ostersund, Malmö, Skellefteå and Sundsvall. Finland is famous for the famous cities of Helsinki, Viitasaari, Tornio, Rovaniemi and Nilsia. Most importantly, in many settlements of these cold countries, even in the smallest, the primacy of the traditions and culture of these peoples is preserved, which gives them even more charm and charm.

Surprise of a new century - South Africa and its heritage

Who would have thought that on the expanses of the southernmost point of the African continent would grow up real urban jungles that will bear beautiful names. Among the cities that look more like America with their panoramas, we will highlight Johannesburg, Cape Town, Pretoria, Port Elizabeth and East London. These unique names of these settlements are due to the synthesis of local dialects and English, which appeared here after the British colonization.

Russia and its uniqueness

For our compatriots the most beautiful are the names of Russian cities and mainly the native capital of Moscow, which in each of its letters is unique and individual.

St. Petersburg is an old and incredibly beautiful city.

Remote megacities also have beautiful names: Vladivostok, Yekaterinburg, Astrakhan, Arkhangelsk, Kaliningrad. It can be stated with complete certainty that there are more places, regions and cities with beautiful names in Russia, but it is simply impossible to list them in one article.