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Sunday, 26 July 2026
20 facts about Stuttgart
20 facts about Stuttgart
A German city with the highest standard of wealth
Stuttgart is one of the largest agglomerations in Germany, the capital of the state of Baden-Württemberg. It is a city with a rich wine tradition, the ...

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Munich
Munich is located near the Bayerische Voralpen, part of the Bavarian Alps, which, in addition to the views, offers countless hiking trails for both pedestrians and cyclists.
The highest peak of the range, Krottenkopf (2086 m above sea level) is located less than 80 km from the center of Munich.
Florence
In the 17th century, the first meteorological station in the history of the city, and one of the first in the world, was established in Florence - Monastero degli Angeli.
It was based in the former church of Santa Maria degli Angeli in via Alfani. It acted on the orders ...
Copenhagen
There is the second-largest bridge in the world here. The so-called Öresund Bridge is 7845 meters long and connects Copenhagen with Malmö, Sweden.
The first concepts for the construction of the bridge were created in the mid-1930s, but constructio ...
Florence
In the 15th century, an important figure for Florence was Girolamo Savonarola - a Dominican, religious and political reformer, who was considered a heretic and schismatic by the Catholic Church.
Savonarola was an Italian Dominican from Ferrara, a preacher who called for Christian renewal and co ...
Glastonbury
The greatest mystery of Glastonbury is the question of whether King Arthur's body was buried on the abbey grounds.
Despite the monks' declarations about the discovery of the remains of the king and his wife Guinever ...
Shanghai
Shanghai’s signature dessert is the Tangyuan.
It is a hot soup with ball-shaped rice dumplings filled with black sesame.
Cairo
Throughout its history, the city has fallen victim to the Plague over fifty times.
The outbreaks of the Black Death took place between 1348 and 1517. The initial one was the most seve ...
Kaliningrad
After Russia's annexation of two self-proclaimed republics in the Ukrainian Donbas in 2022 and the earlier annexation of Crimea, Czech and Polish “X” (former Twitter) users put forward the idea of annexing Kaliningrad to the Czech Republic.
The mocking "official" account of Kralovec (Królewiec) announced that 97.9% of Kaliningrad's inhabit ...
Copenhagen
Copenhagen obtained city rights in 1254.
Vienna
There are 1400 kilometers of bicycle paths, bicycle lanes, and bicycle routes through low-traffic zones in Vienna.
City bicycles can be rented at 121 stations.