Sentence examples for handsome cities from inspiring English sources

You can sail from the capital, Tallinn, to Helsinki in a couple of hours with a passage booked through an agent such as Direct Ferries (0871 890 0900; directferries.co.uk ) – a journey between the two most handsome cities in the Baltic.

For the average visitor, these titles will mean little – but the names of the highlights resonate: Fontainebleau and Versailles, both fine towns with a château attached; the handsome cities of Provins and Meaux, astride the Voulzie and Marne respectively; and, the main destination for UK travellers, Disneyland Paris.

Not much of his scheme was built, but his principles of improving the lakefront, widening avenues and focusing on infrastructure set the tone for transforming the midwestern outpost into one of the most handsome cities in the world, cradle of the steel-framed skyscraper.

Lyon is a handsome city, with a pleasant medieval quarter.

The handsome city of Cáceres is only half an hour's drive.

Edinburgh is a handsome city of great historical significance and one of Europe's chief cultural centres.

Today, this handsome city attracts a relative trickle of tourists compared with the crowds that descend upon Florence.

But nowhere in this handsome city did it feel like a blissful new dawn.

Quito, then a handsome city of 30,000 surrounded by fields and orchards, became their base of operations.

It is a handsome city with a number of celebrated mosques, a wide river with several bridges from which one can get a beautiful view.

In this handsome city of monuments, the Rome of the modern world, there is a cast-iron dome that surpasses the spectacle in Providence.