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Saturday, 17 October 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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San Gimignano
The city’s main square is Piazza della Cisterna.
The square is shaped like a triangle, and its cobblestone pavement is laid in a herringbone pattern. ...
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Potsdam
After the announcement of the Edict of Potsdam, which encouraged Protestants to settle in Brandenburg, Potsdam became a center of European immigration.
The religious freedom prevailing there attracted people from France (Huguenots), Russia, the Netherl ...
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San Gimignano
There are many churches in the city.
The two main ones are the Collegiata (formerly the cathedral) located in Piazza Duomo and Sant’Agost ...
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Hamburg
Miniatur Wunderland is the world’s largest miniature railway located in the Speicherstadt area of Hamburg.
There you can admire the world on a miniature scale with recreated regions such as the Harz Mountain ...
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San Gimignano
San Gimignano is the birthplace of the poet Folgore da San Gimignano, who lived from 1270 to 1332.
He is credited with 32 sonnets treating the hunting and skirmishes of the Tuscan bourgeoisie.
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Vienna
Vienna is home to Austria’s famous Wiener Philharmoniker orchestra and the Wiener Sangerknaben boys’ choir.
Every year on 1st January, the Vienna Philharmonic’s New Year’s Concerts are broadcast from Vienna. ...
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Stuttgart
Five of the eleven state museums of Baden-Württemberg are located in the city.
The most important of them is the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart (opened in 1843), which houses works from ...
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Potsdam
In 1914, the last Prussian king and German emperor, Wilhelm II Hohenzollern, signed a declaration of war against the Entente forces in the New Palace.
After the end of World War I, the era of monarchy in Germany ended, Wilhelm II abdicated and fled to ...
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San Gimignano
Franco Zeffirelli used San Gimignano as Assisi in his films.
In 1972 he made a biographical film about St. Francis of Assisi - “Brother Sun, Sister Moon.” Most of the scenes for the film were shot in San Gimignano.
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Munich
The city is home to the headquarters of the largest companies.
In addition to the previously mentioned BMW, Siemens AG, MAN AG, MTU Aero Engines AG, Rohde & Sc ...
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24 facts about Bremen
24 facts about Bremen
A city of tolerance and opportunities
Bremen, a city on the Weser, is located a short distance from its mouth into the North Sea. Its hallmark and pride are the values it has been professi ...
19 facts about Hamburg
19 facts about Hamburg
Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg
This beautiful city with old buildings existed already in the early Middle Ages when it served as a center of Christianization. Its city port is one o ...
31 facts about Helsinki
31 facts about Helsinki
The northernmost urban area in the world
Helsinki is the capital and largest city of Finland, the third largest city in the Nordic countries. It is the northernmost capital of a European Unio ...
48 facts about Vienna
48 facts about Vienna
One of the greenest cities in the world
Vienna, the capital of Austria, is a city of imperial palaces, the Viennese waltz, Sacher cake, classical music, and New Year’s concerts by the Vienna ...
31 facts about Bruges
31 facts about Bruges
Cradle of Flemish painting
Bruges is a small Belgian city that, in the Middle Ages, was a commercial and financial powerhouse of this part of Europe. At the time, it was one of ...
21 facts about Palermo
21 facts about Palermo
A city founded by Phoenicians
Palermo is a city founded by the Phoenicians over 2700 years ago. Located in a valley that the Arabs called Conca d’Oro in the 9th century, it is surr ...
19 facts about Olomouc
19 facts about Olomouc
The historic capital of Moravia
Olomouc, located in the eastern part of the Czech Republic, is a beautiful, though not very popular, city. As the capital of Moravia, it has a rich hi ...
17 facts about San Gimignano
17 facts about San Gimignano
The Town of Fine Towers
San Gimignano is a charming town in the heart of Italian Tuscany, which mesmerizes with an unprecedented beauty, fascinating history, and unique chara ...
27 facts about Rome
27 facts about Rome
The Eternal City hides many fascinating secrets
The history of Rome has been continuous for 28 centuries, although it is known that the area was inhabited much earlier. Rome is one of the longest in ...
30 facts about Shanghai
30 facts about Shanghai
The Paris of the East
Shanghai is the most eclectic city in China. It combines various architectural styles and is known as the Chinese center of Art Deco. Developing at a ...
23 facts about Paris
23 facts about Paris
City of Light
Paris is very eagerly visited by tourists. It surprises with the number of monuments and architectural marvels from various historical periods. Hundre ...
17 facts about Madrid
17 facts about Madrid
The bear and the strawberry tree
The medieval city dates back to the times when the Moors lived in this area. Situated on the Meseta Central near the Manzanares River, it was an excel ...
16 facts about Cairo
16 facts about Cairo
The city of a thousand minarets
Settlements in the area around today’s Cairo existed over five thousand years ago. Over the years, the city’s surroundings passed from hand to hand—fr ...
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