>>2874599
Not really most of it was bombed to shit so many historical buildings are gone and its usually some brutalist shit that was put in place instead. South looks nicer than the rest of the country and its by far because of the mountains. France and Italy are easily much nicer, especially Italy, probably the most beautiful country on the planet. You also get good food in those places. Every time I was in Germany I was bored to tears, honestly I'd only return to visit my friends or to go out.

>>2874599
Definitely not. It's below at least Italy, France, Switzerland, Norway, Sweden, Iceland, Austria and Spain with no particular order.

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>>2874623
>many historical buildings are gone
i dont get it, when i was there it seemed to me that most buildings were old, although i guess i only went to the touristy places
were just mosttly just the big cities that were bombed and the small town were left untouched?
> Italy
well i agree with you, italy looks great i guess. i am from there so to me the magic is gone after seeing the true country

>>2874635
i've never been to any of the nordic states, do i miss out on a lot? to me they look really depressing

>>2874638
They are ok.
Go in the summer so you can experience the summer nights. Even if you don't go above the arctic circle there is sunlight well into the night.

>>2874635
Dunno, I've been all over all of the countries you list and my last trip to Germany made my heart go pitter-patter as much as anywhere else in Europe. And that's not even giving it credit for having peak midwinter comfiness vibes around Christmas. Where in Italy can you ride a bicycle through a forest of enormous beech trees and have lunch at a working monastery where the monks serve you homemade beer?

>>2874623
I too used to hate brutalism, but once you understand it you can appreciate it and even find it charming. Especially when the alternative is neocapitalist large-scale suburban developments (where a single brutalist tower block would have sufficed) or globohomo glass skyscrapers. Brutalism has a legitimate place in the lineage of European architecture, neoliberal-kitsch architecture like fake-cutesy "modern village living" abominations does not.

>>2874635
spbp

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You ever see photos of the Dolomites? The Greek isles? The coast in Croatia?

>>2874660
>where in italy can forest monks give u beer?
In italy you get wine served by a smoking hot mama in a vineyard with a slight breeze blowing
Where was the forest beer bicycle ride?

>>2874660
Probably in most of the aforementioned countries

>>2874599
Germany is nice but rural Italy is objectively one of the most beautiful places I’ve been too

>>2874599
>Is germany the prettiest country in europe?
depends on what you want
for idyllic castles with nice cafes and hikes around through the vineyards, it's the best in the world

Germany is probably one of densest touristic developed countries
because Germans love to travel and (proportionally) spend a lot of their money on travel

>>2874623
>most of it was bombed to shit
you're vastly underestimating the "remaining" things

some bigger cities were bombed
not even all of them
but even there's still something historic at literally every corner
many rural areas were basically unscathed

>>2874635
>It's below at least
>Italy, France, and Spain
really a different vibe, except maybe the border regions in France
castles there are also very different architecturally
not to mention that the area of modern Germany throughout the last few centuries was a lot wealthier than most of France, Italy and Spain
>Switzerland, Austria
Alps are prettier there with some very picturesque villages
some cities in Austria are nice, of course Vienna
but otherwise Germany is much more diverse in terms of history and everything build that is not historic in Switzerland just looks like shit
>Norway, Sweden, Iceland,
again different vibe
if you want to see that specific landscape, go to the Nordics
but it's more of an /out/ destination

>>2874599
people rarely talk about the natural beauty of germany
but yeah it's very nice :D

>>2874699
>different vibe
That might be the weirdest argument I've ever seen. Basically every country has a different """vibe""", what's your point? And Germany is far from being the most diverse country in Europe

>>2874599
Yeah

>>2874893
>different """vibe"""
just ask if you want me to translate / you don't understand
here you go
>different landscape, cityscape, climate, behavior of people
>same overall culture, pictures could be mistakes to be the same country by the uninformed
>looks vaguely similar from a distance, but not if you're actually there
e.g. Lyon and Dresden are similar in a lot of ways, yet you would not have the same experience going to either one, so I just say different vibe

>And Germany is far from being the most diverse country in Europe
that's probably Spain (in terms of biodiversity / nature and history), followed by France

but diverse =/= prettiest
and the discussion is stupid anyway because pretty is subjective
which was exactly the point of my prior post
to show that depending on what you think constitutes as pretty, you'd chose a different country from the list

I don't know why the history is so palpable in old German buildings, you can almost taste it. Sometimes you're driving through the countryside and catching a glimpse of one of those big old buildings -- I don't know if they're chateaus or beerhalls or what -- that somehow survived the war. Suddenly you know how Caspar David Friedrich must have felt when he woke up in the morning.
Probably no one here's read the book A Time of Gifts, but it basically answers OP's question.

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>>2874902