Cities

The historic center of Bruges was designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2000.

During World War II, Los Angeles was a major center for war production such as shipbuilding and aerospace.

The city’s main landmark and probably the most famous building in all of Finland is the Helsinki Cathedral, completed in 1852.

One of the city's most important squares is Puerta del Sol. The name of this place means the gate of the sun, and although the name may come as a surprise today, because the square is located in the city center, in the 15th century an eastern entrance gate to the city was located there.

In the second half of the 18th century, the area around the city was entirely inhabited by Indians, mainly from the Illinois tribe.

In 1781, a group of forty-four settlers known as "Los Pobladores" founded a pueblo they named El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de los Angeles.

It is a city with traditional historic buildings.

Stuttgart is home to six Fraunhofer universities (the Fraunhofer Society is a German research organization with 75 institutes spread throughout Germany) - this is the second-largest number of research institutions in Germany after Dresden.

The southern coast of the Gulf of Finland was inhabited by Finno-Ugric tribes as early as the 2nd millennium BC.

Bremen is the fourth largest city in the Low German dialect region after Hamburg, Dortmund and Essen.