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Sunday, 7 June 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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Los Angeles
It is the seat of Los Angeles County - the most populous and one of the most ethnically diverse counties in the United States.
Los Angeles itself has been recognized as the most ethnically diverse American city - the city's inhabitants are often referred to as Angelenos.
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 ...
Kaliningrad
In 1933, in one of the districts of Königsberg - Siewiernaja Gora - the Germans established one of the first Nazi concentration camps - Quednau.
It was built in the outer Fort III of the royal fortress - Fort Quednau, built in the 1870s, later n ...
Epheseus
This period of wonderful development of Ephesus ended during the so-called Ephesus Vespers - the massacre of the Romans and Italic peoples in Asia Minor, which took place around 88 BC.
Probably 80-150 thousand Romans died then.
Ghent
Every year Ghent hosts one of the largest film festivals in Europe - Film Festival Gent.
Los Angeles
In 1984 in L.A. The Summer Olympic Games were held for the second time.
Despite being boycotted by 14 communist countries, they achieved greater financial success than the ...
Vienna
The first completed building on the Ring was the Vienna State Opera.
The opera house opened on 25th May 1869, with a production of Mozart’s opera “Don Giovanni.”
Rome
It took 120 years to build St. Peter's Basilica.
Construction began in 1506 on the site of an older church founded by Emperor Constantine the Great. ...
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.
Helsinki
The city has about 11.000 boat moorings.
It also gas more than 14.000 hectares of marine fishing waters adjacent to the capital region. There ...