The Beehive

Built astride the great spire Canterhorn, a stiletto of stone piercing the heavens themselves, high above the Saddle Plains and east of Cloudsdale, overlooking the whole of the land, is the city of the goddesses, the home of nobility, the center of commerce, fashion, and power, where white marble and gold filigree shine under both moon and sun, where buildings are topped by spires and domes, scaled, tiled, and crowned by vanes of various designs, where balconies abound and streets are cobbled high, with clear, glittering, flowing waterfalls pouring down into frothing lakes hundreds of meters below, is Canterlot, the greatest city in Equestria.