Someone Asks Online: "What Is The Most Beautiful Place You Have Ever Visited?", Receives 33 Answers

It’s interesting that throughout the millennia of our history, people have not always traveled to see beautiful places in other countries. No, of course, the aesthetics of admiring the beauty of nature and architecture have always been there, but to go specifically to another city or country to enjoy this beauty - of course not.

People traveled on trade and military matters, made pilgrimages, moved between towns and entire countries - and around them, beautiful nature grew and blossomed in riotous color, architectural wonders towered. But few people actually paid attention to it...

It took until the middle of the 19th century for tourism per se, in a form even remotely close to modern times, to appear. Its inventor is considered to be the Englishman Thomas Cook, who in 1840 organized a group trip for members of the Temperance Society he had created to a convention in a neighboring town on a recently built railroad nearby.

Cook looked after the group members carefully (mostly, however, he tried to distract them from the thoughts about booze - so he switched people's attention to the beauty around them), and the carefree trip was so enjoyable for folks that they wanted more. Then more and more - and so Thomas Cook organized the world's first travel agency. By the way, it was also the longest-lived - the company existed until 2019, when it successfully went bankrupt... but that's a completely different story.

Cook's simple and pragmatic concepts were mixed with the philosophical views of Henry David Thoreau, who in the mid-19th century completely dominated the minds of American society. Thoreau's thoughts on nature, its beauty and simple life away from the bustle of the city became the cultural basis of tourism - and Cook and his colleagues provided a convenient opportunity to go to almost any point on the globe.

And since then we have been traveling, looking at the world - and admiring how beautiful it is. Following Neil Armstrong, who first saw our planet from the Moon. Following Louis Armstrong and his great immortal song.

In fact, by the way, sometimes we forget, behind the world-renowned beauties, how nice and great any point on Earth actually is. It’s quite enough just to see this beauty. The ancient sages rightly said: "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder." And in fact, many places that didn’t make this list also deserve to be there. So please feel free to share your favorite places as well, and never forget - the world is beautiful, completely, wherever you and I actually are.