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).
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!
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.
Really?! Why would people want to visit Berlin?!
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.
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
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.
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?
