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Sunday, 29 March 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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Dubai
Hitchhiking in Dubai and the rest of the Emirates is illegal.
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Stuttgart
Stuttgart is the only city in Germany where grapes are grown in an urban area, mainly in the districts of Rotenberg, Uhlbach, and Untertürkheim.
Viticulture in this area dates back to 1108 when the Blaubeuren Abbey received vineyards in Stuttgar ...
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San Francisco
The famous Japanese fortune cookies were first served at the Benkyodo bakery in San Francisco.
Although they are commonly considered a Chinese invention, they were born in Kyoto, Japan during the ...
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Helsinki
The typical tree in Helsinki is the common maple (Acer platanoides).
The typical animal, on the other hand, is the red squirrel (Sciurus vulgaris).
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Florence
Near Piazza della Signoria there is one of the oldest museums in Europe - the Uffizi Gallery.
The gallery's collections are dominated by paintings by the Italian and Flemish schools: Cimabue, Gi ...
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Saint Petersburg
The cathedral grounds contain the tombs of all Russian tsars, beginning with Peter I.
The exception is Peter II, grandson of Peter I, the last descendant in the male line of the Romanov dynasty. He is buried in the Arkhangelsk Cathedral in Moscow.
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Kaliningrad
The Kaliningrad Oblast includes the historical lands of Sambia, Lower Prussia, and Lithuania Minor, also known as Little Lithuania or Prussian Lithuania.
About 1/3 of the perimeter area (including a significant part of the coast and the entire Russian pa ...
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Dubai
As recently as the 1960s, Dubai was a small town in the desert, where cars shared narrow roads with donkeys and camels.
The discovery of oil and gold deposits made the place one of the fastest growing, becoming a wealthy metropolis.
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Tallinn
Tallinn is 82 km from Helsinki, 280 km from Riga, 314 km from St. Petersburg, 380 km from Stockholm, 530 km from Vilnius, and 800 km from Oslo.
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Glastonbury
According to another legend, Joseph of Arimathea arrived in Glastonbury by boat.
When getting out of it, he struck the ground with his staff, and the staff miraculously took root, becoming a thorn bush that still blooms during Easter and Christmas in the abbey.
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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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