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Wednesday, 22 April 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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Kaliningrad
Kaliningrad has one of the oldest zoos in modern Russia.
This garden was established in 1896 as a zoo in Königsberg.
Vienna
One of the most famous addresses in Bienna is Berggasse 19-the house and now the Museum of Sigmund Freud.
For almost half a century (1891-1938), Sigmund Freud lived and worked in a classic tenement house in ...
Dubai
The Dubai metro is segregated by gender.
There are separate carriages for women and children and separate ones for men. There are also VIP carriages.
Chicago
The first open-heart surgery can be boasted by Provident Hospital in Chicago, where Dr. Williams operated on a victim who was stabbed in the heart area.
The procedure took place in 1893 and was completely successful and the patient recovered after 2 months.
Florence
In 1982, the historic center of Florence (Centro Storico di Firenze) was included on the UNESCO World Heritage List.
The city center is surrounded by walls built in the 15th century. Within them, in Piazza della Signo ...
Copenhagen
Copenhagen is one of the greenest cities on earth and plans to become carbon neutral by 2025.
Over the last 10 years, the city has managed to reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 1/3, mainly thanks to investments in photovoltaics and wind farms.
Potsdam
In August 1945, the Big Three conference ending World War II was held in Potsdam.
It was a conference of three heads of government: the Soviet Union (Joseph Stalin), the United State ...
Chicago
Chicago experienced its greatest boom at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries.
It was then that the city saw an influx of people who came to America from Europe. In 1900, 1.7 million people lived in Chicago, and 10 years later it was almost 2.2 million.
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 ...
Shanghai
It has its own dialect.
Shanghainese is so distinctive from Chinese that most people from around the country cannot understand it.