Your home town

[Banana238]

Nice thread

My hometown is Nürnberg, Germany:

We have approximately half a million inhabitants. It's the second largest city in Bavaria.
Some (more or less) cool things about Nürnberg:

Christkindlesmarkt:

Rock im Park:

Blaue Nacht:

(it looks totally cool in pictures but when you're actually there it's kinda boring because there are sooooo many people so that you can see absolutely nothing...)

Automated driverless U-Bahn which totally sucks because the doors only open for like 10 seconds and then automatically close and people keep on getting stuck between the doors, which can be funny sometimes if it doesn't happen to you

Oh yeah, and the best things, of course:
3 im Weckla (with original Nürnberger Bratwürste)

and Lebkuchen!

 

[greece]

My home city is Athens

 

[greece]

Sorry but there are problems with photos I don't know why

 

[Sultana]

I write a story about the city which I love a lot! You can read it o skip

I am going to show you the city where I will 100% live in the close future
If I am not mistaken It was already mentioned here but let me do it again
I am talking about the 3d Biggest city in Russia - Ekaterinburg. It is also the capital of Ural Region and it has quite a long history. The population of Ekaterinburg is 1,424,702 inhabitants ( 2013)
First of all, Ekaterinburg was founded in 1723 ( 291 years ago) on the banks of the River Iset' ( Исеть) and named after Empress Ekaterina The First. During the Soviet Union times this city was renamed as Sverdlovsk after Yakov Sverdlov - a Bolshevik party leader . Speaking about renaming of the Russian cities I would like to say that it was quite common thing in past times.Most cities were renamed after leaders or party activists like ( St. Petersburg - Leningrad
Tsargrad - Stalingrad, Samara - Kuybyshev, Königsberg - Kaliningrad and etc. "-grad" in old russian meant city)
In 1991 The capital of Ural - Ekaterinburg again appeared on the map, but the name of the Oblast( a federal subject of Russia) still named as Sverdlovsk Oblast ( Sverdlovskaya Oblast) and most of Russians who was born in 50-70 still sometimes call Ekaterinburg as Sverdlovsk
Ekaterinburg has its own unique history and you can feel connection to it at every step. One of the most memorable historical events is Murdering of Tsar family. It happened here in Ekaterinburg in Ipatiev house and now instead of the house there is The Church on Blood in Honour of All Saints Resplendent in the Russian Land or just The Church on Blood.

I was here myself and the whole Church really impressed me a lot.
The architecture in Ekaterinburg is rich. Here you can see Buildings of 19th century and near it a new beautiful Skyscraper. Also Ekaterinburg has a lot of buildings which were built during USSR times.

The mordern centre of Ekaterinburg looks simply amazing, my father, during our trips to EKB( cut from Ekaterinburg) ,often tells me that 20 years ago the centre looked completely different. There was practicaly nothing.
The "HEART" of Ekaterinburg( Center of the Centers) called "Plotinka" - dam in English.

Here are some Administrative buildings:

The last one is Municipality of Εkaterinburg There is monument to Lenin in front of it and it is a place for meetings and protests I saw myself one small protest about Communism like " Let's have Communism again" 90% of such protests are not interesting to people. On the last photo you can also see people celebrating 290 years of their hometown)
The residence of Governor of Ural Region

It looks more beautiful from the front view

Old railway station
Ekaterinburg is rich in parks and places for relax!
So I think I tired you with my speech just look on some pictures of the city.

Don't be afraid to come to Russia someday!))​

 

[greece]

^Oh it's very beautiful city!
But my fave from Russia is Saint-Petersburg

 

[Sultana]

^Oh it's very beautiful city!
But my fave from Russia is Saint-Petersburg

best of the best agree with you!)

 

[Fierro]

Oh yeah, and the best things, of course
3 im Weckla (with original Nürnberger Bratwürste)

Oh, i'm too spoiled to watch this

 

[Thaddeus]

Hamburg​

Facts​

- Population 1,813,587(Metro: 5,000,000)

- Hamburg is the second largest city in Germany and the eighth largest city in the European Union.

- Hamburg is the third largest musical city after New York and London.

- Hafencity Hamburg – Europe s largest city development project.

- The Speicherstadt (lit. city of warehouses, meaning warehouse district) in Hamburg, Germany is the largest timber-pile founded warehouse district in the world. The Speicherstadt is an UNESCO World Heritage.

- Hamburg is the greenest city in Germany

-The Elbphilharmonie Hamburg (nicknamed Elphi) is a concert hall under construction in the HafenCity quarter of Hamburg, Germany.

- The Reeperbahn is a street in Hamburg's St. Pauli district, one of the two centres of Hamburg's nightlife and also the city's red-light district. In German it is also sometimes described as die sündigste Meile (the most sinful mile).

- In the early 1960s, The Beatles played in several clubs around the Reeperbahn, including the Star-Club, Kaiserkeller, Top Ten and Indra.

- John Lennon is quoted: "I might have been born in Liverpool - but I grew up in Hamburg".

- Hamburg will apply for 2024/2028 Summer Olympics

 

[Iuris]

I LIVE IN MADRID, CAPITAL CITY OF SPAIN. HERE ARE SOME PHOTOS OF MY BEAUTIFUL AND LIVELY HOMETOWN:

MADRID'S SKYLINE: http:////farm4.staticflickr.com/3682/11993740923_8b05f07694_o.jpg
ROYAL PALACE, ALMUDENA CATHEDRAL AND SAN FRANCISCO EL GRANDE BASILICA: Subefotos.com - Comparte rapidamente tus fotos
BRIDGES OVER MANZANARES RIVER: http://http://www.nileguide.com/destination/blog/madrid/files/2010/09/manzanares_manuelmvicente.jpg
EGYPTIAN TEMPLE OF DEBOD: http://www.livingspain.es/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/Templo-de-Debod.jpg
PLAZA MAYOR OF MADRID: http://cdn.traveler.es/uploads/images/thumbs/201144/la_plaza_mayor_de_madrid_5550_966x.jpg
MADRID DE LOS AUSTRIAS, THE OLD PART OF THE CITY: http://www.educa.madrid.org/web/cie.madrid/web_rl/recursos/fotos_Austrias/Calle_del_Codo/calle_codo_4.JPG
THE BEAR AND STRAWBERRY TREE STATUE: http://fromturkeywithlove.files.wordpress.com/2012/01/dsc01922.jpg
PRADO MUSEUM: http://images.placesonline.com/photos/27339_museo_del_prado_madrid.jpg
CIBELES FOUNTAIN AND METROPOLIS BUILDING: http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2268/2279414377_fed52562e1_o.jpg
ALCALÁ GATE: http://www.smsvacaciones.es/blog/wp-content/uploads/Puerta-Alcala-Madrid.jpg
AERIAL VIEW OF RETIRO PARK: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/97/Vista_aerea_Retiro.JPG
CAMPO DEL MORO GARDENS NEXT TO THE ROYAL PALACE: http://www.madridteacher.com/fotos/campo-del-moro/IMG_5459.JPG

 

[r3gg13]

Ugggh, I uploaded a video of me showing my town on youtube, it has somehow disappeared .

I'll save this post until I can recover/reupload the video

EDIT: I give up

I guess it's not meant to be

 

[Yamarus]

Brussels is one of the most congested cities in Europe. Cars have free reign on most of the city, and we have been very slow in following the trend of making large areas car-free, which is so much better for the quality of life and the beauty of the city centre.

Brussels nightlife is centred around the "Bourse" building (Stock exchange), just behind the Grand'Place. To protest against the cars in that area some people have organised street picknicks on Sundays. Now the city authorities are planning to make the area car-free, which will dramatically improve the place.

The Bourse quarter in the 1920s.

How it is now:

And an artist's drawing of how it could be

 

[r3gg13]

[MENTION=7928]Yamarus[/MENTION], I LOVE Brussels, it is one of those cities that felt really alive and bustling! I wish I lived there!

 

[lilka]

My dear Warsaw... Completely destroyed during WW II, now flourishing. Here are some photos:

General panorama of the city center at night:

The Old Town, Castle Square:

The Old Town, Presidential Palace

The Royal Baths Park, the monument of our national hero, the great composer Fryderyk Chopin:

The Royal Baths Park:

http://www.canin.mm.pl/wp-content/uploads/2006/07/imgp0412_mini.jpg[IMG]
Other photos:
[IMG]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/35/Warsaw_Old_Town_Market_Square_10.JPG/800px-Warsaw_Old_Town_Market_Square_10.JPG

And so on...

 

[Milos-BC]

^^ Awesome pics It reminds me of both Belgrade and Novi Sad here, based on the pics

 

[lilka]

My other hometown (where my family mostly comes from and where I grew up), Gliwice, located in southern Poland, in the region of Upper Silesia. Better known as the city where the German SS staged a "Polish" attack on the radio station on the eve of WW II outbreak. The Gliwice Radio Tower is said to be the second tallest wooden construction in the world with its 118 meters. Here are some photos:

The Gliwice Radio Tower:

Other:

 

[nofuxCZ]

 

[galih]

My hometown is in Bogor, Indonesia. It is located in Java Island, and very near to three volcanoes. It's not a big city and rain literally come down every day, we don't have a lot of sunny days although we are in the tropical climate area. These are the pictures of my hometown that I found on the internet

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(source goes to wikimedia, 456room.com, and wafi.tumblr)

And we have the oldest Botanical Garden in Indonesia as well, international tourist always come over to visit this place.

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(source goes to allindonesiatravel, eschasacici.wordpress)

 

[Simon87]

 

[theCONWEL]

My hometown is called Bedlington:

Nowhere amazing, but we do have a breed of dog named after the town, the Bedlington Terrier

I usually tell people I'm from the city of Newcastle, home of Geordie Shore, which is about 15 miles away:

which is near the Angel of the North, one of the biggest landmarks of the region

and this is where all this is in the UK:

 

[Simon87]