but it doesn´t always consist in nightmares. The bright side of the coin has also brought a different tone for this place over the course of the show.

We talk about how it has slowly happened to be the high class meant for unicorns only to become not only mundane with it but the centerpiece of reuniting everyone together.

You know that the harmony was centered around Ponyville, where the three races of ponies joined together and lived in harmony.

Well, Canterlot has slowly transformed itself into that rainbow themed place where everyone has to visit at least once in their lifetime. It has become over time the worthy successor of Ponyville and indeed, it all started here with Twilight reading the book but the main events didn´t happen all that much until the visits from the mane 6 were more frequent and became the norm.

What astounds me the most about Canterlot is how versatile it is for anything really. One could set up any hypothetical situation around it and it would work nicely, from myths and nightmares (building up tons of lore if a villain conquered at some point) to the simplest slice of life story ending with a party.

Sure you could do this with Ponyville but the scenery that accompanies it is just breathtaking either way. You can go no wrong with it.

These two pictures reflect that if Ponyville didn´t exist, you wouldn´t miss it all that much because in the movie and in the finale, it displays what the tree of harmony showed before its destruction, without any elements of harmony for that.