But which cities in Europe are the most written about in literature?
The printing experts at Aura Print combed through the vast expanse of the Google Books corpus (a repository boasting 25 million books) to identify the cumulative mentions of 31 prominent European cities across books spanning from 1920 to 2019.
20 most popular European cities in books revealed
| Rank | European City | Most popular decade | Total occurrences in books (1920-2019) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | London | 1960s | 286,675,501 |
| 2 | Paris | 1920s | 95,290,475 |
| 3 | Rome | 1920s | 48,840,949 |
| 4 | Berlin | 1940s | 37,079,709 |
| 5 | Moscow | 1980s | 31,405,361 |
| 6 | Florence | 1920s | 19,414,470 |
| 7 | Vienna | 1980s | 18,995,437 |
| 8 | Athens | 1960s | 15,118,606 |
| 9 | Dublin | 1920s | 15,021,998 |
| 10 | Amsterdam | 1990s | 12,868,807 |
| 11 | Brussels | 1990s | 10,949,717 |
| 12 | Venice | 1920s | 10,237,695 |
| 13 | Madrid | 1990s | 9,883,636 |
| 14 | Stockholm | 1980s | 8,813,100 |
| 15 | Warsaw | 1980s | 8,054,316 |
| 16 | Munich | 1990s | 8,025,343 |
| 17 | Milan | 1960s | 7,917,978 |
| 18 | Copenhagen | 1950s | 7,317,785 |
| 19 | Prague | 1960s | 6,702,244 |
| 20 | Porto | 1920s | 6,604,087 |
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