15 great cities that certain art enthusiasts must visit

11 years ago, UNESCO established the Global Creative City Network to recognize achievements, while promoting social, economic and cultural growth of cities around the world. Creative areas include literature, cinema, music, handicrafts - folk arts, design - architecture, media arts, cuisine. Among them, the field of design - architecture has created a series of valuable works and left a high impression.

The most beautiful cities in the world

Here are the cities that represent architectural art, from Japan to Spain, where the emphasis is on developing creativity through design.

1. Beijing, China

For a long time, Beijing has always been recognized as the cultural capital of China. With 119 design training universities and over 30 large and small art creation areas across the streets, Beijing has a huge favor for the creative economy. The city is famous for its magnificent palaces, temples, shrines, tombs, magnificent city gates. Along with that, art treasures and universities turned Beijing into a cultural and art center in China.

2. Berlin, Germany

Germany's capital, Berlin, is the home of more than 5,000 design students from the city's art universities. This is a vibrant city mixed with ancient nostalgia, the most interesting capital of Europe. Located in northeastern Germany, Berlin is the intersection of many different cultures. According to the people here, Berlin always brings with it the charm and melancholy because of its heavy history.

3. Bilbao, Spain

Arriving in Spain, outside the beautiful capital city of Madrid or Barcelona, ​​tourists should visit Bilbao - a city in northern Spain with beautiful scenery interwoven between past and modern. Previously, Bilbao was known for its medieval and Renaissance heritage, now particularly famous for its future-oriented modern architecture. This architecture is so impressive that a new type of tourism is born: 'traveling through buildings'.

Being the largest city of Basque, Bilbao is very modern but still intact from the old neighborhoods. The splendid architectural heritage and pioneering buildings helped Bilbao become a bright spot on the Spanish tourist map.

4. Buenos Aires, Argentina

Influenced by European culture, Buenos Aires is sometimes dubbed 'Southern Paris' or 'Paris of South America'. This is one of Latin America's most sophisticated cities, famous for its architecture, nightlife and cultural activities. It is also one of Latin America's most prosperous cities with a large number of middle-class and educated residents. Architectural heritage of Buenos Aires is a blend of Italian and French architectural art. Many tourists enjoyed the scenery of San Telmo, La Boca and Recoleta, where there are magnificent villas, notably the Mataderos market in San Telmo.

5. Curitiba, Brazil

Curitiba city of Brazil is located on the plateau with a height of nearly 1,000 meters above sea level. Since its inception, Curitiba has become an important cultural, political, economic center of Brazil and of South America. Today, this plateau city is known to the world for names such as 'eco city', 'friendly city', 'great settlements' or 'Brazilian pearls'. Most tourists who come to Curitiba feel they love the green, clean and beautiful environment here. Although it is a developed city, Curitiba has a very peaceful and peaceful beauty along with very civilized infrastructure system.

6. Dundee, Scotland

Dundee, Scotland is dubbed the 'city of discovery'. Although Dundee is a small city, Dundee has a remarkable history in design and textiles. For many years, Dundee has built a groundbreaking digital media industry, contributing to restoring the city's social and creative economy.

7. Graz, Austria

Graz is one of Austria's most beautiful cities with a harmonious combination of medieval architectural styles and art schools. It is worth mentioning that the architectural style here is very rich and diverse. In this city, it is easy to recognize the interference of different art flows. Wherever you stand in the city, you can also see extremely beautiful buildings.

This is because the whole of this city center is a large art project that is gathered from thousands of small buildings such as houses, monuments, flower gardens, squares . Along with the capital Vienna, Graz city With his artistic masterpieces is one of the most popular destinations of Europe and the world, this has been confirmed throughout the years.

8. Helsinki, Finland

Helsinki is not only an economic, cultural, political center of Finland but also a famous tourist city of Europe with extremely impressive architecture. Coming to Helsinki, you have the opportunity to visit ancient museums, the most architectural buildings in Europe. In 2000, Helsinki was recognized as a famous cultural city of Europe.

9. Kobe, Japan

Kobe city is one of three economic, tourist and cultural triangles of Kansai region: Osaka - Kobe - Kyoto. In 1868, the area was a pioneer in opening the harbor to trade with Western countries. Therefore, visitors will find Kobe has more differences than the traditional cities often appear in Japanese tours. And the famous attractions in Kobe include not only ancient buildings but also the impressive modern architecture.

10. Montreal, Canada

Montreal, Canada is dubbed the second largest French city in the world. Built on a hillside with zigzag streets, adjacent to St. Bay. Lawrence, Montreal is strangely beautiful. From the top of the hill, on beautiful days, you can see the whole city, and even see New York State and the Green Mountains in Vermont State. Although it is a French city, Montreal still shows a diverse cultural identity. We can see Greek or Vietnamese eateries on Prince Arthur Street, or Italian, Jewish and Portuguese communities concentrated in the area near Art Square .

11. Nagoya, Japan

Within at least two decades, Nagoya City, Japan is increasingly focused on building and developing community buildings and fostering human resources. It can be said that Nagoya is not only an 'industrial heart' of Japan but also a land of spiritual spirituality of the gods, arousing the creativity of each individual's artistic instincts.

12. Seoul, South Korea

South Korea's capital Seoul is spearheaded in the field of mechanical design related to information technology equipment, digital home appliances and the automotive industry. In addition, the city's public design center - Dongdaemun Design Plaza - is also invested in construction including an art hall and a design room. In it, there must be a design library and many other important design educational institutions.

13. Shanghai, China

Not only is it famous as China's largest commercial and financial center, Shanghai is also the first place where artists, film and recording studios appear. At the end of 2013, Thuong Hai also welcomed the birth of nearly 90 creative centers, 4,000 design companies, nearly 300 art / cultural institutes as well as 100 museums.

14. Shenzhen, China

Shenzhen City is an example of China's economic success in the past three decades. With more than 6,000 designers and 100,000 employees, Shenzhen has become the 'cradle' of design, especially Chinese women's fashion. The annual Shenzhen Young Design Talent Award is the city's remarkable effort to foster and honor talented young designers.

15. Turin, Italy

Despite the fact that in Italian travel it is obvious that architecture is mentioned on every trip, but there are many differences in the city of Turin in northern Italy. Dubbed the capital of Baroque art, the city of Turin as a massive museum displaying a series of bold Baroque architecture always makes visitors admire admiration. From churches, temples, temples to houses, all are subtle with distinctive artistic features.

Although not a city that is too busy or too focused on tourism, but in its deep and aristocratic atmosphere, Turin has always captivated anyone who set foot in priceless artistic and architectural values.