Top 10 Songs Mentioning European Cities or Towns
Songs where European cities and towns are mentioned either in the title or the lyrics.Lyrics - "We all came out to Montreux on the Lake Geneva shoreline".
Montreux is a resort town in Switzerland known for its music festivals (ex., Montreux Jazz Festival, held in July).
Sarajevo - capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina (part of ex-Yugoslavia).
Sarajevo suffered the longest siege of a capital city in the history of modern warfare, during the Bosnian War and the breakup of Yugoslavia (for 1,425 days, from April 1992 to February 1996).
This song is on an album that is entirely about this civil war. A cover of this song is currently known as a X-mas song by Trans-Siberian Orchestra.
Also, Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria was assassinated in Sarajevo in 1914, which sparked World War I.
In the lyrics: "Es war in Wien, war Vienna" (Vienna, Wien - capital city of Austria).
Waterloo is a town in Belgium, known for the historic Battle of Waterloo in 1815, where Napoleon was finally defeated.
See my explanation about Sarajevo to the item: Christmas Eve (Sarajevo 12/24)
"But to Moscow chicks he was such a lovely dear".
Moskau is German for Moscow.
Stockholm - capital city of Sweden.
Now Saint Petersburg in Russia.
Waterloo - town in Belgium.