Personal Tour - Selfhood

 

Your answers to the psychometric questions at the RANKING TEST tab reveal your personal favorites among the 15 Beautiful Facets.  You can then prioritize your visits to beautiful places in CitiesBeautiful.org’s 25 cities, by focusing on your favorite Beautiful Facet.  Clicking on any Beautiful Facet below will take you to a table that has all 25 cities’ Principle Features and Honorable Mentions that have been classified by that specific Beautiful Facet.  Each table is sorted by the highest scoring city for that Beautiful Facet down to the lowest scoring city. 

 

This webpage is the personalized tour of all the beautiful places that have the Beautiful Facet classification of SELFHOOD.

 

 

CITYSCOREPRINCIPLE FEATURESHONORABLE MENTIONS
PARIS84.6Bastille Day Parade/Festival, Champs-Elysées, Institut de France Place Vendôme, Statues of Liberty at Jardin du Luxembourg and Grenelle Bridge, Galeries Lafayette, Musée Galliera de la Mode de la Ville de Paris,  Paris Fashion Week
SAN FRANCISCO69.2The Castro (Gay "Coming Out" Mecca), Shopping -- Union Square and Vicinity, Angel Island (Ellis Island West)Fort Mason Center, Fringe Festival
CAPE TOWN61.5Grand Parade, Guga S’Thebe Arts & Cultural Centre, Gold Museum of AfricaInfecting The City  Festival; Crafts Markets -- Kirstenbosch, Africa Nova, etc.;  Victoria Mxenge Women’s Group
CHICAGO61.5Magnificent Mile, Chicago Cultural Center, Emerging Artists -- Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art, ETA Creative Arts Foundation, Bridgeport Art Center,  etc.;More Established Art Districts--Pilsen, River North, West Loop
SEOUL61.5Tapgol Park, National Folk Museum of Korea, Sejong Cultural Center Independence Gate, Chongdong Theater, National Gugak Center, Seoul Global Cultural Center, Emerging Artists (Seoul Art Space Sindang , Arko Art Centre, KT&G SangsangMadang, etc.)
BUENOS AIRES53.8Casa Nacional del Bicentenario, Centro Cultural de Borges and Galerías Pacífico (shopping); Emerging Artists -- Braga Menendez Arte Contemporaneo, Zavaleta Lab, Hollywood in Cambodia), etc.Pajcha - Museo de Arte Étnico Americano, Museo de Arte Popular José Hernández 
ISTANBUL53.8Museum of Turkish and Islamic Arts (Türk ve İslam Eserleri Müzesi), Galata Mevlevihanesi [Whirlng Dervis Lodge], Istanbul Handicrafts Center (Kabasakal Medresi)Caferaga Medresesi [cultural center for traditional Turkish crafts], Garajistanbul [center for experimental arts], Hodjapasha Dance Theater and Cultural Center
LONDON53.8Trafalger Square, Marble Arch, Wellington ArchRegent Street, Speakers Corner
PRAGUE53.8National Memorial on the Vítkov Hill (Národní památník na Vítkově), Bethlehem Chapel (Betlémská kaple),  Memorials to Patriots--Jan Žižka; Jan Hus, Jan Palach, Jan Zajíc, etc.National Memorial to the Heroes of the Heydrich Terror, Manes Association of Fine Artists (Spolek výtvarných umělců Mánes)
VANCOUVER53.8Bill Reid Gallery of Northwest Coast Art, Vancouver Fringe Festival, Robson StreetMillennium Gate, Hill's Native Art, Holt Renfrew 
ATHENS46.2Syntagma and Kolonaki Squares (including shopping districts), Foundation of the Hellenic World aka  Hellenic Cosmos, Museum of Greek Folk Art Technopolis, City of Athens Centre for Popular Arts and Traditions
BARCELONA46.2 La Diada Nacional de Catalunya (National Day of Catalonia), Passeig de Gràcia, Centre de Cultura Contemporània de BarcelonaCaixaForum,Foment de les Arts Decoratives i del Disseny (FAD),  Arc de Triomf
FEZ46.2Centre Artisanale; Ensemble Artisanal; Slam&Klam FestivBaghdadi Square (area for nightlife); Rug Shopping -- Aux Merveilles du Tapis 
HONG KONG46.2Shopping -- Nathan Road, Hollywood Road, Cat Street, etc.; Hong Kong Arts Centre, Hong Kong Planning and Infrastructure Exhibition GalleryEmerging Artists -- Fringe Club, Cattle Depot Artist Village
JAIPUR46.2Jaipur Heritage International Festival (India’s leading community-based arts festival); Surajkund International Crafts Mela;  Jawahar Kala Kendra (multi arts centre  built by government for preserving Rajasthani arts and crafts)Top Five Shopping Places -- Anokhi , Kripal Kumbh, Art Chill (Juneja Art Gallery), Gem Palace, Hot Pink
JERUSALEM46.2L. A. Mayer Memorial Museum of Islamic Art, Sir Isaac and Lady Edith Wolfson Museum, Jerusalem Artists' House and Old Bezalel Academy of Arts and DesignNahon Museum of Italian Jewish Art, Bezalel Art Fair
KYOTO46.2Nishijin-ori Textile Center, Kyoto Handicraft Center, Kyoto Ceramics CenterShijo-dori Street [Principal Shopping District]
RIO DE JANEIRO46.2Museu Internacional de Arte Naif do Brasil, Centro Cultural do Banco do Brasil, Praça Floriano a.k.a. CinelândiaMuseu de Folclórico Edson Carneiro, Centro de Referência do Artesanato Brasileiro 
ROME46.2Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Via Veneto, Via Giulia, Esposizione Universale Roma (EUR) [Originally called E42]
SYDNEY46.2Speakers’ Corner, Queen Victoria Building, Sydney Running FestivalSydney Running Festival, Mercedes-Benz Fashion Festival
WASHINGTON DC46.2Dumbarton Oaks. Hillwood Estate Museum & Gardens, Tudor PlaceCapital Fringe Festival, Source Festival
BUDAPEST38.5Statue of Liberty (Szabadság Szobor), Zsigmond Kun Folk Art Museum (Kun Zsigmond Lakásmúzeuma), Váci Street (Váci utca) Festival of Folk Arts (Mesterségek Ünnepe)
MELBOURNE38.5Ian Potter Centre, Art Gallery of Ballarat, Koorie Heritage TrustCollingwoods Art Precinct; Street Art - Hosier Lane, Rutledge Lane, etc.
ST. PETERSBURG38.5Victory Monuments -- Alexander Column[tallest in the world], Monument to the Heroic Defenders of Leningrad,  Narva Triumphal Arch; Nikolayevsky Palace/Art Center -- traditional dances; Loft Project ETAGINevsky Prospekt -- Shopping
AMSTERDAM30.8Westergasfabriek (Cultural Center); The National Monument; Lifestyle Museums -- Hash Marihuana & Hemp Museum, Sexmuseum, Erotic MuseumEmerging Artist Venues -- SMBA, De Appel, De Ateliers, etc.