Here are the Goodreads place (setting) tags for the cities on the list. Caveat with settings tags, if no one has added the setting to the book's metadata, it won't show up on these lists (and there are a lot of books that did not have their setting put in when the book was added to Goodreads).

Barcelona, Spain
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Cape Town, South Africa
Cartagena, Colombia
Chefchaouen, Morocco (I can't find a place tag for this city; here's the Morocco tag instead: Morocco)
Dubrovnik, Croatia
Edinburgh, Scotland
Hoi An, Vietnam (There's only one book, so here's the Vietnam setting as well: Vietnam)
Istanbul, Turkey
Kyoto, Japan
London, England
New York City, New York
Palermo, Italy
Paris, France
Queenstown, New Zealand (Only three books, so here's the New Zealand tag: New Zealand)
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Rome, Italy
San Francisco, California
San Miguel de Allende, Mexico
Sedona, Arizona
Seoul, South Korea
Singapore
Sydney, Australia
Taipei, Taiwan
Tbilisi, Georgia (Also, here is the tag for Georgia (the country) since that's what a lot of books in Tbilisi seem to be tagged with: Georgia)

Amy (Other Amy) wrote: "Here are the Goodreads place (setting) tags for the cities on the list. Caveat with settings tags, if no one has added the setting to the book's metadata, it won't show up on these lists (and there..."

thanks this is super helpful!! I admit I was not really excited about this category, I was just going to read yet another book set in NYC, but now I see I have a lot of options.

My pleasure. I'm in the same boat for the prompt, and feeling a lot better about it.

If anyone knows of a great book that is set in one of these cities but doesn’t show up, I’m a librarian and can add a setting tag to help others find it!

Note: Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk is both #3 and #127

I've been coming through and deleting duplicates as I see them. Thanks for that.

Wow, I personally don't think NYC is beautiful--Vancouver is much lovelier, IMO. It just goes to show you how tastes vary. I wasn't here when this was voted in and of course there are some breathtaking cities in this list :) Now I have to think about what to read.

Karin shared this alternative list of the top 25 most beautiful cities. It includes Vancouver and Lucerne.

(remove spaces to make the link work)
https: // luxurycolumnist. com/ the-most-beautiful-cities-in-the-world/

1. Paris, France
2. Venice, Italy
3. San Francisco, California
4. Prague, Czech Republic
5. London, U.K
6. Cape Town, South Africa
7. Rome Italy
8. Amsterdam, Netherlands
9. Buenos Aires, Argentina
10. Kyoto Japan
11. New York City, US
12. St Petersburg, Russia
13. Sydney, Australia
14 San Miguel de Allende, Mexico
15. Edinburgh, UK
16. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
17. Seville, Spain
18. Hong Kong
19. Quebec City, Canada
20. Florence, Italy
21. Istanbul, Turkey
22. Budapest, Hungary
23. Lucerne, Switzerland
24. Mexico City, Mexico
25. Vancouver, Canada

NancyJ wrote: "Karin shared this alternative list of the top 25 most beautiful cities. It includes Vancouver and Lucerne.

(remove spaces to make the link work)
https: // luxurycolumnist. com/ the-most-beautiful..."

And Québec city which is lovely.

I think Ottawa, Quebec City, and Montreal are all really beautiful cities and I'm really shocked that Canada was ignored by Travel & Leisure's list!

I'm looking for an excuse to read Last Night in Montreal so I searched lists of 25 beautiful cities until I found one that listed Montreal - looks like I"m not allowed to include a link so I guess search for:
"iso.500px.com 25-most-photographed-cities-on-500px"

(I also found an Elle list that included Quebec City if anyone is looking for that one.)