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Thursday, 12 February 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
In 1969, California became the birthplace of the Internet.
The first ARPANET transmission was then made from the University of California in Los Angeles to the Stanford Research Institute in Menlo Park in San Francisco.
Shanghai
Its official city flower is White Yulan.
It belongs to the genus magnolia, native to China. It grows in the Yangtze River basin.
Shanghai
Shanghai’s signature dessert is the Tangyuan.
It is a hot soup with ball-shaped rice dumplings filled with black sesame.
Madrid
Over 800,000 trees grow in Madrid.
Madrid is the city with the most trees and green spaces per capita in all of Europe. Unfortunately, ...
Stuttgart
Stuttgart is the birthplace of the car.
The automobile and motorcycle were allegedly invented in Stuttgart (by Karl Benz and then industrial ...
Florence
Tourism in Florence is by far the most important of all industries, although manufacturing and trade are also very important.
Tourism added approximately €2.5 billion to the city's finances in 2015. From April to October, tour ...
Palermo
Palermo is a city in southern Italy, the capital of both the autonomous region of Sicily and the metropolis of Palermo.
It is located in the north-west of Sicily, on the Gulf of Palermo in the Tyrrhenian Sea.
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 ...
Palermo
The city was founded in 734 BC by the Phoenicians as Sis (“Flower”).
It then became the property of Carthage. Two Greek colonies were established, known collectively as ...
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. ...