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Vote for the most beautiful Swiss town.

I came across this while surfing -

http://www.schoenste-stadt.ch/voting.php

Unfortunately, it has a list of Swiss towns to select from which didn't include the two towns that are the most beautiful I have visited (so far) - Stein-am-Rhein and Scuol.

Some of the towns on the list are down right ugly, it's just the surrounding mountains that are beautiful.

So where would you vote for?
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Old 19.11.2011, 10:23
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Re: Vote for the most beautiful Swiss town.

Perhaps Stein-am-Rhein and Scuol don't count as towns. It looks more like a list of most of the towns of a certain size to me. Or maybe they just asked round the office and made a list of all the towns which anyone came up with.
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Old 19.11.2011, 10:26
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Re: Vote for the most beautiful Swiss town.

For those keen on community rankings ( sorry, only in DE ):

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I came across this while surfing -

http://www.schoenste-stadt.ch/voting.php

Unfortunately, it has a list of Swiss towns to select from which didn't include the two towns that are the most beautiful I have visited (so far) - Stein-am-Rhein and Scuol.

Some of the towns on the list are down right ugly, it's just the surrounding mountains that are beautiful.

So where would you vote for?
Quite obviously, that list of towns to vote for is based on the number of inhabitants, a town, according to Swiss definition, being a settlement of 10,000 or more people. That's the reason why quite a few beautiful places are not listed. You can vote for Buchs SG, but Werdenberg, just around the corner, historically a genuine town and one of the cutest places in the country, is missing. Neuhausen, ha ha, but Diessenhofen is missing.

Just boycot that nonsense.
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Re: Vote for the most beautiful Swiss town.

For me the choice was a no-brainer: its got to be Nyon
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For me the choice was a no-brainer: its got to be Nyon
half of it is water!
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Old 19.11.2011, 10:59
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Re: Vote for the most beautiful Swiss town.

Well im biased since i live in Geneva. But still is not a very nice city. I wanted to vote for Interlaken but its not on the list. So it will have to be Montreux
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Really? There must be two Nyons then...
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Diessenhofen is missing
Diessenhofen is where my wife's father and grandfather grew up.

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Re: Vote for the most beautiful Swiss town.

I always thought Regensdorf and kloten were beautiful
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Stein-am-Rhein
I loooooved Stein-am-Rhein
But I'd vote for Zug, it's so nice during summer
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Re: Vote for the most beautiful Swiss town.

I voted Bern - love the old city and the river
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Re: Vote for the most beautiful Swiss town.

voted for zug!
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Re: Vote for the most beautiful Swiss town.

voted for Schaffhausen
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Re: Vote for the most beautiful Swiss town.

No voting for me, sorry...

...there's no Appenzell in the list!

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Re: Vote for the most beautiful Swiss town.

So far I've only been in Basel, Zurich and Bern and I think Bern is the best of those
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Re: Vote for the most beautiful Swiss town.

Absolutely!!
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Re: Vote for the most beautiful Swiss town.

The website doesn't work on an ipad. Schiessflash...
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Re: Vote for the most beautiful Swiss town.

Luzern in my opinion. Beautiful town.
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Re: Vote for the most beautiful Swiss town.

Luzern for me too
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