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Monday, 27 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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San Francisco
San Francisco is the only city in the world where a cable tram system still operates today.
The wagons are powered by a rope that runs under the track. They move at a constant speed of 15 km/h ...
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Epheseus
One night in 356 BC, the Temple of Artemis in Ephesus was burned down by a madman named Herostratus, who wanted to gain fame in this way.
Also on this night, in Pella, the metropolis of Macedonia near Thessaloniki, Alexander of Macedon wa ...
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Shanghai
Shanghai’s signature dessert is the Tangyuan.
It is a hot soup with ball-shaped rice dumplings filled with black sesame.
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Florence
During the times of Emperor Hadrian, the city was connected to Rome by the Via Cassia road.
Current Florence was founded by Julius Caesar in 59 BC as a settlement for veterans and was called F ...
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Philadelphia
Philadelphia was the first capital of the United States.
It served in this role throughout much of the colonial and early post-colonial period, including fro ...
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Los Angeles
The most common plant communities in the Los Angeles area are coastal sagebrush, chaparral, and coastal forests.
Chaparral is an evergreen, thicket plant formation that is a characteristic component of sclerophyll ...
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Philadelphia
The first banks in the United States were established in Philadelphia.
These were the Bank of North America, founded in 1781, and the Bank of Pennsylvania, founded in 1782 ...
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Philadelphia
Philadelphia is an American city located on the northeastern coast of the country, in Pennsylvania.
It is the sixth-largest city in the United States and the largest in the state of Pennsylvania. On t ...
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Chicago
The population of Chicago is 2.7 million and the population density is almost 4450 people/km².
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Philadelphia
Philadelphia is a national cultural center.
It is home to sixty-seven national monuments, including Independence Hall, and has more outdoor scul ...
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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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