How did Athens become hands down the UGLIEST capital city in all of Europe?It's quite insulting that the birthplace of western civilization is so trashy
first thing i saw in naples was a pile of trash
Is that picture cherrypicked or is Athens really that hideous?I've never been to Greece but other parts of Greece seem to be beautiful
>>16810414Uuuuuuuummmmmmmmmmmmm sweaty??????????? Turkey is african
>>16810436Istanbul mogs Athens in every way imaginable
>>16810414obvious difference in photo saturation
>>16810436>Turkey is africanBut cleaner than Greece
>>16810414Athens was a backwater ever since the Spartans fleeced them in the polypenasian war. They then were under the boots of various states, from Macedon to Rome to Turks before finally being free. If history had gone differentlynI think Constantinople would have been the Greek capital but it is what it is.
>>16810444>Istanbul mogs Athens in every way imaginableAfter all you stole it
>>16810414Istanbul was built by Christians but Muzzies took over. The beauty from the Christian era remains.
>>16810576Muslims never took athens
>>16810414They were so utterly buck broken by the Ottomans that they never recovered
>>16810572>larps as Hellene>larps as Macedonian>larps as Roman>claims Constantinople>in reality is some mystery meat Aromanian-Slavic balkanlar dwellermany such cases
>>16810414I was there last summer and while yeah some sectors are kind of run down the city is absolutley beautiful and charming and you are just some fat American tourist tier idiot
>>16810422Cherrypicked. There's some places like Omonia which are run down, infested with immigrants and drug use, but there are sectors of the city which are absolutley stunning. Google monastiraki and plaka neighborhoods as a starting point.
>>16810444>Greek city we stole is better than this other Greek city we didn't steal
>>16810722>Greek cityliterally founded by an Illyrian who spoke Latin>we stoleMehmet did it a favor. The inept byzzies had neglected it so much it was falling apart. They could not even maintain what a higher civilization had left them.
>>16810422Athens is terrible. But there's also a roach here trying to cope when saying that Constantinople was great precisely because it's not Turkish.
>>16810422It's more that the others are cherry picked to show the best of the other cities. Most of Athens does look like that, as other cities in Mediterranean countries, but obviously there is a more beautiful part .
>>16810422It is cherrypicked, but Athens is pretty ugly. I went to Rome first and it blew my American mind. I'd never seen a city that beautiful before. Then we go to Athens and it looks not too dissimilar from an ugly American city. >but other parts of Greece seem to be beautifulI've only been through the Peloponnese, but it is beautiful. Enough to more than make up for Athens.
>>16811885Athens grew like an infernal commieblock shithole post 70s. Even up to late 70s-early 80s it was much better.
>>16810414Birthplace of western civilization is Miletus.
