What's Your Favourite Mediterranean City?

Thessaloniki and İzmir also nice. Not to mention Venice.

So many small Italian cities and towns.

I want to go to Mahón.

Anybody been to Taormina, Sicily?

[quote] Anybody been to Taormina, Sicily?

Nobody has ever been to Taormina, Sicily not even its residents.

Naples! Strange, dirty, beautiful city with wonderful coffee and food. And a short trip to Ischia.

R4 I have only been to the other side of Sicily - Catania and Siracusa. Very beautiful but I was surprised that cruise ships docked in Siracusa, so there were some roaming packs of tourists.

[quote]Naples! Strange, dirty, beautiful city with wonderful coffee and food. And a short trip to Ischia.

I wonder how Naples compares to Palermo?

Guess there's no love for Beirut.

Istanbul is not on the Mediterranean, just saying.

Nice and Antalya are both lovely.

Tangier

Nice, Monte Carlo, St. Tropez.

Another vote for Thessaloniki. Go for orthodox easter. Why have your major celebration for a birth when you can go all out for a resurrection! Then head into the mountains. Hillsides can be white with blossom (I'm told they are almond trees in bloom) and the streams and waterfalls gurgle and gush with melted snow. The place is alive- you can see what inspired their old religious beliefs

Malaga, Alicante, and even though it’s a few kilometers inland, Montpellier.

The island of Malta seems like an interesting place. Valletta is their capital.

I'd love to travel to Venice too.

[quote]Istanbul is not on the Mediterranean, just saying.

The Mediterranean is made up of 12 marginal seas; the Baleric, Adriatic, Aegean, etc.

LOL @ including Beirut and Algiers in that list.

Why not also mention Benghazi?

[quote]Malaga, Alicante, and even though it’s a few kilometers inland, Montpellier.

Alicante and Malaga are so synomous with tourism; you forget that they're real, working cities where people live.

From this list, it's Valencia for me. I fell in love with that quaint little town the second I arrived.

Rome is only 7 km from the sea.

Palermo and Barcelona thus far. I would love to visit the others on the list. The Mediterranean is endlessly fascinating to me.

^ LOL. That "quaint little town" has over 800,000 inhabitants and is the third largest city in Spain.

Me! R4

^Sorry^^^

How was it, R24?

Your point, r17? According to the map in your scholarly tome, uh Wikipedia, it's not on the Mediterranean. Thanks.

No, R27. If you look at the section on "Marginal Seas" in the wikipedia article, they are included as part of the Mediterranean.

Someone mentioned Tangier, but it isn’t on the Mediterranean either; it’s on the Atlantic end of the Strait of Gibraltar - outside the Pillars of Hercules.

Alexandria, barbarian.

And if you look at the map under "Extent" it is clearly not included.

You're correct, R31. Mea culpa.

BCN

It's so gay!!!

Algiers is a huge interesting city, dum dum R18. As is Tunis, location of Carthage. I prefer Oran to Algiers, however.

[quote]And if you look at the map under "Extent" it is clearly not included.

What are you talking about? You must be trolling. The map to the right of the "Extent" section shows the borders of the Mediterranean Sea and it includes all marginal seas. The article mentions Barcelona and Athens as cities on the Mediterranean, not as cities that should be separately classified as cities on the Balearic and Aegean Seas.

Oh right, right, R31. Now I see what you're getting at. Istanbul isn't on the Mediterranean.

Barcelona is a wonderful place, but it risks being completely overwhelmed by tourists.

Barcelona is for the young, however, into popular entertainment and sex.

I want to go where the swarthiest, hairiest men are.

[quote]I want to go where the swarthiest, hairiest men are.

Salerno is very underrated.

Mine is where the meatiest dicks are.

I love Cádiz, but unfortunately for this thread it's just outside the Mediterranean, on the Atlantic.

Salerno is a town.

Only one of these I've been to is Istanbul on a stopover, was not impressed. Struck me as a shithole, full of touts, and my luggage was gone through while in storage. Everything was expensive too

I'd love to go to Tel Aviv, so I picked that one

Like any vast city, Istanbul depends on when and where you went. I stayed on the European side one summer with a family there who knew all of the best places. It was magical--the beauty of the men, the architecture, the sea, the art, the music, some of the best seafood, the hamam, the shops. I'd go back but of course it wouldn't be the same.

Nissa la Bella

How long ago did you go to Istanbul, R45?

Almost 20 years ago, may have changed since. Hopefully for the better, but given Erdogan is running the joint now, maybe not?

I visited Turkey in 2004 and had a wonderful time. But I wouldn’t even dream of going back now.

Thessaloniki is on the Aegean Sea, not the Med.

Ah, Americans and geography, a pair never to meet.

R52 I know right? Personally I've always thought that the Falklands were the true jewel of the Mediterranean.

Barcelona is on the Balearic Sea.

Palermo and Naples are on the Tyrrhenian Sea.

[quote]Thessaloniki is on the Aegean Sea, not the Med.

And Marseille is on the Gulf of Lion. And Beirut is on the Levantine Sea. And Tunis is on the Sea of Sicily. And Venice is on the Adriatic ...

My God! There are no cities on the Mediterranean!

Menton, France

I think OP is referring to the Mediterranean as a general cultural and historical region, not simply listing every city that happens to be on the Mediterranean Sea. In which case all of the suggestions he listed are correct. Why does everyone have to nitpick so incessantly?

R51 Mediterranean is wider term and includes not only places situated on the Mediterranean sea, but the surrounding seas like Adriatic, Ligurian, Aegean and Black sea.

And I forgot Tyrrhenian sea. Italy is situated on Adriatic, Ligurian and Tyrrhenian sea, and you can't say it's not a Mediterranean country.

Any superyacht out of Antibes.

Palermo is an astonishing place. One minute you are in a modern Italian city, the next you are in a bomb site. I saw a beautiful Baroque square entirely in ruins, with hundreds of broken statues piled up. There is still damage from the Allied Landings which has never been repaired(guess who took the money). The history and architecture from successive invaders make for a fascinating trip. My favourite place was Monreale on the outskirts of the city. The Byzantine style cathedral is incredibly beautiful.

I wish I still had a sea.

[quote]I'd love to travel to Venice too.

Don't wait too long.

Menton, France and Salerno, Italy are two I haven't heard of before.

Menton, in particular, looks amazing.

I loved Menton, it’s not too far from Nice, which is also amazing and has a little more going on than Menton does.

I've been to Nice and the isle of Greece, where I sipped champagne on a yacht.

Corsica, Sardinia, Cannes, Nice, Saint Tropez, Athens, Malta,

Beirut, Tel Aviv and Istanbul ? These are not part of the Mediterranean cities.

R69, what sea do you suppose Beirut and Tel Aviv are situated on?

"Why does everyone have to nitpick so incessantly?"

R57 -- bitterness, loneliness, and lack of sex since the turn of the century are the reasons that immediately spring to mind.

R65 I used to rent an apartment in your picture for my holiday in Menton each year back in the early 90s.

It's a beautiful city. It was so cool walking along the promenade into Italy for a gelato, before walking back into France.

Jean Cocteau's Salle des Marriages is beautiful.

Split is the best.

Carthage.

Capetown!

Tel Aviv has amazing architecture.

Vivian Vance, ya dirty cunt.

No French Riviera cities?

The problem is OP's criterion of "over 100,000".

There go Villefranche and Eze, e.g.

Get a map, r69!

[quote]No French Riviera cities?

Eh, hello, Marseille?

[quote]The problem is OP's criterion of "over 100,000".

OK, let's drop that.