7 City by Design World's Prettiest

1. MEKKAH

The city is a major goal of the Muslims in pilgrimage, in this city there is a main building called the Grand Mosque. The city is a narrow valley surrounded by mountains with building the Kaaba at the center. The building is used as a benchmark Kaba Qibla direction for worship prayers Muslims around the world.

2.  DUBAI

Is one of the seven most populous city in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), located along the southern coast of the Persian Gulf on the Arabian Peninsula. Dubai lies directly within the Arabian Desert. However, the topography of Dubai is significantly different from most of the southern part of the UAE where Dubai landscape filled with sandy desert patterns, while gravel deserts dominate much of the southern region of the country.

3.  FLORENCE

Is the capital of the province of Florence, central Italy. Cleaved by the Arno River, in the foothills of the Apennines, the city has a population of 400,000 inhabitants. It is the birthplace of the Renaissance, from the 14th century to 16, Florence is known as the center of cultural, economic and financial importance in Italy and Europe so called "Athens of the West". Florence considered the pioneer of Italian art and culture revival. Literary works are born from great Florentine poet. Most of the people who play a role in the development of the Renaissance such as Botticelli, Verrocchio, Leonardo da Vinci. Florentine figures Another influential in many fields such as Brunelleschi (architect), Donatello (sculptor), and Mosaccio (painter). Galileo also from Florence.

4.  PARIS

Paris "Modern" is the result of urban redesign of the mid-19th century. Centuries, the city has become a maze of narrow streets, but beginning in 1852, Baron Haussmann's vast urbanization leveled entire quarters to make way for wide avenues equipped with neo-classical stone buildings bourgeoise. While the city of Paris is still imposing the law of "alignment" as amended (the building facade replaced by street width) on some new development. Building height is also determined by the width of the road, and building codes Paris has undergone many changes since the mid-19th century to high construction.

5.  BARCELONA

A city in Spain, stands at 230 BC, the city's role as a living gallery of modernist architecture and stylish decor and Art Nouveau (New Art). The temples and built by the architect Antoni Gaudí, medieval churches, Roman walls and the rest of the plaza and a place where people walk around-all seem special. Its area is 100.4 km ².

6.  ATHENA

The city has a population of about 700,000 souls, but when calculated with the metropolitan area, the population is about 3.5 million inhabitants. Athena is also a center of economic, cultural, political and Greece. Athena is also often referred to as the origin of Western civilization as the various cultural achievements in the 4th century and the 5th and makes it rich in a variety of buildings, monuments, and works of ancient art. One of the most famous is the Acropolis which is one proof of classical Greek art.

7.  BRASILIA

Brasília is a planned city, and was built in 41 months from 1956 to its inauguration on 21 April 1960. The construction of the city was ordered by President Juscelino Kubitschek. City planner Lucio Costa primarily, the main architect of most public buildings was Oscar Niemeyer, and landscape architecture is Roberto Burle Marx. The city planned by Le Corbusier's ideas.

 

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