BEAUTIFUL CITIES

Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 6, 9 January 1928, Page 11

BEAUTIFUL CITIES

Writing in the "London Observer," Sir Michael Sadler, tho Master of University College, Oxford, asks:— What are the twenty most "beautiful large towns in the world, tho twenty with the greatest charm and character? •A quarrelling game, because tho rules are not fixed. And few have travelled far enough to judge as between rival claims. May one player make a start and hazard a list, but not in any order of meritf — Rome Rotenburg a,(I. Florence Taube Venice Bijou ►Sienna Angoulcine Athens Quebec | Constantinople Agra I Paris Benares Stockholm Edinburgh The Hague . Bath Budapest Oxford Nurnberg Fatipulir Sikri, though one of the loveliest, I leave out because it is deserted. Benares I doubt because the one lovely thing in it is (he curved escarpment of tho river front. Amsterdam I hanker after but it is not what it was. Durham deserves a place. And, if it were less squalid within its walls, Aigues Mortes. And them is Sydney, and the great cities in South America, and Jerusalem and Toledo. But as a target the list must stand.