Be'er Sheva, Israel, named by British General Edmund Allenby the "Crown Jewel of the Negev", and the "Desert City of Light"
Birmingham, Alabama, United States, also known as "The City Of Light", as you approach the city from the mountains it glistens like stars
Buffalo, New York, United States, as host of the Pan-American Exposition. In 1901, Buffalo was perhaps the most extensively lighted city of its time
Curepipe, Mauritius, also called "La Ville-Lumière"
Eindhoven, Netherlands, because of the match industry and the Philips light bulb manufacturing company. The city also has various light-artworks and an annual large light festival called GLOW.
New Bedford, Massachusetts, America's whaling capital during much of the 19th century, its whale oil lit lamps around the world and lubricated the wheels of the Industrial Revolution. On the 1847 City Seal, its motto is "Lucem Diffundo" (I Spread Light)
Ohrid, North Macedonia. In antiquity the city was known under the ancient name Lychnidos. probably meaning "City of Light"
Perth, Western Australia, became known worldwide as the "City of Light" when city's residents lit their house lights and streetlights as American astronaut John Glenn passed overhead while orbiting the Earth on Friendship 7 in 1962. The city repeated the act as Glenn passed overhead on the Space Shuttle in 1998.
Tamworth, New South Wales, Australia. Australia's first city with electric street lighting (10 November 1888). The city is known as the "First City of Lights".
Quanzhou, known as "City of Light" by the work of the Jewish merchant Jacob of Ancona
Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India, also known as Kashi, "The Luminous One"
Wolverhampton, United Kingdom 'Out of Darkness Cometh Light' – United Kingdom '"City of Light"'
Music
Symphony No. 22 (Hovhaness) or City of Light, a 1970 composition by the American composer Alan Hovhaness commissioned for the centenary of Birmingham, Alabama
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