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Athens is so ugly that it comes the other way around.

It looks like no other. When I travel around Europe I sometimes feel that all cities look the same. When I go to Athens I feel that I am not in Europe anymore, it's a different planet.



Comic map of "every European city": https://www.itchyfeetcomic.com/2018/10/omnimappus-europeus.h...

And for equal representation, the corresponding map of "every American city": https://www.itchyfeetcomic.com/2018/10/omnimappus-americanus...


"all cities look the same"

Except, of course, for the one that has as a centrepiece a huge old fortress (still used by the local military) on the plug on an ancient volcano. ;-)


I need to be more accurate... Most cities look similar (beautiful, neat, European)


I dunno. I always thought that one looked kind of like a scaled-up version of Bath.


Which city is that?



Correct

"But Edinburgh is a mad god’s dream,

Fitful and dark,

Unseizable in Leith

And wildered by the Forth,

But irresistibly at last

Cleaving to somber heights

Of passionate imagining

Till stonily,

From soaring battlements,

Earth eyes eternity."





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