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 KINSHIP.
| CITY | SCORE | PRINCIPLE FEATURES | HONORABLE MENTIONS |
| SAN FRANCISCO | 100.0 | Neighborhoods – Haight-Ashbury, North Beach, Japantown, Mission (and many more); Chinese New Years Parade, LGBT Pride Parade | Cultural Institutions -- Jewish Museum, Chinese Cultural Center, Italian American Museum, Mexcian Museum, African Diaspora Museum, Etc. |
| AMSTERDAM | 61.5 | Anne Frank House (Anne Frankhuis); Jewish Historical Museum (Joods Historich Museum); Neighborhoods - Nieuwe Zijde, De Plantage, Jordaan, Hollandse Schouwburg, Leidsestraat, De Pijp, etc. | Homomonument |
| BUDAPEST | 61.5 | Andrássy Avenue (Andrássy út), Holocaust Emlékközpont (Holocaust Memorial Center), Neighborhoods -- Castle District (Várnegyed), Leopold Town (Lipótváros), Inner City (Belváros), etc. | Nightlife -- Franz Liszt Square (Liszt Ferenc tér) and Ráday Street (Ráday utca) |
| JERUSALEM | 61.5 | Yad VaShem Memorial and Holocaust Museum, Old City Communities -- Christian Quarter, Jewish Quarter, Armenian Quarter, Muslim Quarter; Heichal Shlomo Jewish Heritage Museum | Newer Neighborhoods -- Ein Kerem, Nahalat Shiva , Ben-Yehuda Street aka Midrachov, Yemin Moshe |
| KYOTO | 61.5 | Gion Neighborhood [a.k.a. Geisha District], Higashiyama-ku Neighborhood, Sannen-zaka and Ninen-zaka Streets | Pontocho [Nightlife District] |
| PARIS | 61.5 | Districts -- Ile de la Cite & Ile St. Louis, Marais, Montmartre, Latin Quarter, St. Germain-des-Pres, etc.; Musée d'Art et Histoire du Judaisme, Institut du Monde Arabe | Musée du quai Branly (MQB) |
| ROME | 61.5 | Trastevere, Piazza di Spagna and the Spanish Steps, Testaccio | Parioli, Museo Ebraico di Roma (Jewish Museum) |
| ATHENS | 53.8 | Neighborhoods -- Plaka, Anafiotika, Kolonaki , etc.; Nightlife Districts -- Psirri and Gazi; Jewish Museum, | Benaki Museum of Islamic Art |
| BUENOS AIRES | 53.8 | Asociación Madres de Plaza de Mayo, Obelisco, Neighborhoods -- Palermo, Monserrat, San Telmo, Recoleta, La Boca, Barracas, etc. | Asociación Mutual Israelita Argentina (AMIA) |
| CAPE TOWN | 53.8 | South African Jewish Museum, Long Street (day and night), Neighborhoods -- Castle Quarter, Adderley Street, Kalk Bay, Bo-Kaap, Simon's Town, etc. | Festivals -- Cape Town Carnival, the baby Expo, etc. |
| HONG KONG | 53.8 | Aberdeen Floating Village; Neighborhoods -- Mong Kok, SoHo, Stanley, etc.; Nightlife -- Lan Kwai Fong | Lamma Island |
| PRAGUE | 53.8 | Neighborhoods -- Kampa Island, Mala Strana, Novy Svet,Narodni Trida, etc.; Jewish Quarter (Josefov ) + Jewish Ceremonial Hall/Museum (Obřadní síň); Prague 2 (Nightlife) | John Lennon Wall |
| WASHINGTON DC | 53.8 | War Memorials -- Vietnam Veterans, National World War II, Korean War Veterans (etc.); U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, Neighborhoods -- Georgetown, Dupont Circle, Foggy Bottom, Glover Park, Penn Quarter, Capitol Hill (etc.) | [None] |
| BARCELONA | 46.2 | Neighborhoods -- El Raval (and less so El Born et al.), Festes de la Mercè (Festival of Our Lady of Mercy), Festival de Sant Joan (Saint John the Baptist) 23/24th June | [None] |
| JAIPUR | 46.2 | Jaipur Literature Festival, Neighborhoods -- Old City, Bani Park, Malviya Nagar,Vaishali Nagar, etc.; Jaipur Foundation Day Celebration | Central park has a 206 feet high monumental National Flag , the tallest tricolour of the country. |
| LONDON | 46.2 | Distinctive Neighborhoods -- City of London, South Bank, Kew Highly, The Strand-Temple, Nottinghill, Kensington & Chelsea, etc.; St Mary-le-Bow (Definitive Cockney); City of London Festival | Ethnic Enclaves --Indian (Sothall), Chinese (Shaftesbury Avenue), Middle Eastern (Edgware Road), etc. |
| RIO DE JANEIRO | 46.2 | Sambodromo; Neighborhoods: Lapa, Santa Teresa, Ipanema/Leblon, LGlória/Catete/Flamengo, etc.; Travessa do Comércio | [None] |
| SEOUL | 46.2 | Neighborhoods (Cheonggyecheon, Jung-gu, Insadong,Garosu-gil, Bukchon, etc.) ; Itaewon (Nightlife district), Korean Comfort Women Protests | Korean Traditional Festivals (Seollal, Chuseok, etc.) |
| CHICAGO | 38.5 | Ethnic Institutions--National Museum of Mexican Art, DuSable Museum of African American History, Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art,Polish Museum of America; Neighborhoods--The Loop, Bridgeport, Chinatown, Argyle Street (Little Saigon), Devon Avenue, Paseo Boricua; National Veterans Art Museum | [None] |
| ISTANBUL | 38.5 | Neighborhoods -- İstiklal Caddesi aka Beyoglu, Eminönü, Kadıköy, Ortaköy, Üsküdar, etc.; Flower Passage (ÇIçek Pasaji); Jewish Museum of Turkey | Nightlife strip between Ortaköy and Kuruceşme |
| ST. PETERSBURG | 38.5 | Neighborhoods -- Admiralty Quarter, Arts Square Quarter, Petrogradskaya Quarter, etc.; Ethnography Museum (Etnograficheskii Muzey); Museum of the History of Religion | Jewish Heritage Tours (e.g., www.totallyjewishtravel.com) |
| FEZ | 30.8 | Neighborhoods -- Mellah (previously Jewish), Moulay Abdellah Quarter; Festival of Amazigh Culture - The festival, run in association with the Institut Royal de la Culture Amazighe, aims to promote and protect Amazigh (Berber) culture; Kassr Annoujoum Ducci Foundation | [None] |
| SYDNEY | 30.8 | Neighborboods: Chinatown, Elizabeth Bay, Kirribilli | Sydney Jewish Museum, Chinese Garden of Friendship, Sleaze Ball |
| VANCOUVER | 30.8 | Neighborhoods: Coal Harbor, Yaletown, Strathcona, etc.; Chinese Cultural Centre Museum and Archives; Festivals - Vancouver Pride, Chinatown, Powell Street, etc. | (clothing optional) Wreck Beach |
| MELBOURNE | 23.1 | Chapel Street; Neighborhoods - Chinatown, Lygon Street (Little Italy), Victoria Street (Little Vietnam), Sydney Road, etc.; Jewish Museum of Australia | [None] |
