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within Europe I would tend to agree, if you stay in city centres - it's just old buildings with churches, narrow streets and cobblestones, you could hardly dist

within Europe I would tend to agree, if you stay in city centres - it's just old buildings with churches, narrow streets and cobblestones, you could hardly distinguish the countries if it weren't for language, which makes sense considering how compact Europe is but if you compare European, African and East Asian city you can clearly see differences

riffraff 6y ago
> it's just old buildings with churches, narrow streets and cobblestones Just to talk of a single country: Rome has its kind of old buildings and churches, which is different from Florence, which is different from Venice, which is different from Milan or Trieste. Even the cobblestones are different!
- Markoff 6y ago
  the differences are small unless you have particular interesdt in history/architecture most of the people would not really notice difference and I write this as European
  - abraxas 6y ago
    How can you not notice the difference between the whitewashed houses of Greek islands vs the clay roofs of Porto and Lisbon vs the elaborate facades of Vienna vs the somber everlasting feel of Edinburgh stone masonry? They look NOTHING alike.
    - Markoff 6y ago
      you can see the difference, but unless you have interest in architecture it won't help you indetifying country, because they could be pretty much in any European country sure some white buildings next to sea would help me to guess I am somewhere in southern Europe maybe, but I was talking about regular buildings you see somewhere in city center from street, if you take away letters it looks pretty much same everywhere in Europe
      - abraxas 6y ago
        No. That's just not the case. Even if we set aside the most iconic street scrapes from various places even an ordinary street in Europe varies a lot in the look and feel. A random place in Barcelona will not be mistaken for a random place in Warsaw which will be absolutely different from a random place in Glasgow that will be different yet from a spot in Stockholm. Yeah they will all have buildings and streets in them but that's the extent of their similarly. Do some Google Maps tourism and you will see.
        Markoff 6y ago
        don't have to, travel by myself, I can assure you regular Barcelona street could be as well in Vienna, very similar
  - riffraff 6y ago
    I think people wouldn't _understand_ the difference, but I don't think they wouldn't notice. If you limit yourself to churches, the difference between San Paolo[0] in Rome, Milan's Duomo[1] and Venice' San Marco[2] is pretty obvious, since they come from 3 cultures which were pretty different. Do you need a book/guide to understand why they look like that? Sure, but I bet you can tell they are different. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basilica_of_Saint_Paul_Outside_the_Walls#/media/File:Roma_San_Paolo_fuori_le_mura_BW_1.JPG https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basilica_of_Saint_Paul_Outside... [1] https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/70/Milan_Cathedral_from_Piazza_del_Duomo.jpg/2560px-Milan_Cathedral_from_Piazza_del_Duomo.jpg https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/70/Mi... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Mark%27s_Basilica#/media/File:Venezia_Basilica_di_San_Marco_Fassade_2.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Mark%27s_Basilica#/media/Fi...
    - Markoff 6y ago
      I looked at them and you missed my point, if I would wake up and look at any of these churches I would have no idea in what country I am, but I would guess it's somewhere in Europe, for instance the one you shown in Milan could be as well in Prague or in any German city, so as I said they use pretty much same, that bazilica from Venice could be as well Budapest, these are not distinctive styles you could distinguish unless you have particular interest while if I would look at regular street in India with their temple, then look at temple in Thailand and then at some European church I could see the difference nobody is saying you won't notice difference, but it's pointless because it won't help you placing you in specific country unless you have interest in old architecture styles

riffraff 6y ago

> it's just old buildings with churches, narrow streets and cobblestones Just to talk of a single country: Rome has its kind of old buildings and churches, which is different from Florence, which is different from Venice, which is different from Milan or Trieste. Even the cobblestones are different!

Markoff 6y ago
the differences are small unless you have particular interesdt in history/architecture most of the people would not really notice difference and I write this as European
- abraxas 6y ago
  How can you not notice the difference between the whitewashed houses of Greek islands vs the clay roofs of Porto and Lisbon vs the elaborate facades of Vienna vs the somber everlasting feel of Edinburgh stone masonry? They look NOTHING alike.
  - Markoff 6y ago
    you can see the difference, but unless you have interest in architecture it won't help you indetifying country, because they could be pretty much in any European country sure some white buildings next to sea would help me to guess I am somewhere in southern Europe maybe, but I was talking about regular buildings you see somewhere in city center from street, if you take away letters it looks pretty much same everywhere in Europe
    - abraxas 6y ago
      No. That's just not the case. Even if we set aside the most iconic street scrapes from various places even an ordinary street in Europe varies a lot in the look and feel. A random place in Barcelona will not be mistaken for a random place in Warsaw which will be absolutely different from a random place in Glasgow that will be different yet from a spot in Stockholm. Yeah they will all have buildings and streets in them but that's the extent of their similarly. Do some Google Maps tourism and you will see.
      - Markoff 6y ago
        don't have to, travel by myself, I can assure you regular Barcelona street could be as well in Vienna, very similar
- riffraff 6y ago
  I think people wouldn't _understand_ the difference, but I don't think they wouldn't notice. If you limit yourself to churches, the difference between San Paolo[0] in Rome, Milan's Duomo[1] and Venice' San Marco[2] is pretty obvious, since they come from 3 cultures which were pretty different. Do you need a book/guide to understand why they look like that? Sure, but I bet you can tell they are different. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basilica_of_Saint_Paul_Outside_the_Walls#/media/File:Roma_San_Paolo_fuori_le_mura_BW_1.JPG https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basilica_of_Saint_Paul_Outside... [1] https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/70/Milan_Cathedral_from_Piazza_del_Duomo.jpg/2560px-Milan_Cathedral_from_Piazza_del_Duomo.jpg https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/70/Mi... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Mark%27s_Basilica#/media/File:Venezia_Basilica_di_San_Marco_Fassade_2.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Mark%27s_Basilica#/media/Fi...
  - Markoff 6y ago
    I looked at them and you missed my point, if I would wake up and look at any of these churches I would have no idea in what country I am, but I would guess it's somewhere in Europe, for instance the one you shown in Milan could be as well in Prague or in any German city, so as I said they use pretty much same, that bazilica from Venice could be as well Budapest, these are not distinctive styles you could distinguish unless you have particular interest while if I would look at regular street in India with their temple, then look at temple in Thailand and then at some European church I could see the difference nobody is saying you won't notice difference, but it's pointless because it won't help you placing you in specific country unless you have interest in old architecture styles