Cities

Ghent was the first city in Europe where the Industrial Revolution arrived.

Shortly after the outbreak of the Spring of Nations in 1848, when citizens took to the streets of Vienna demanding the introduction of reforms in the country, Franz Joseph I took power, leading to the creation of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy in 1867.

The city's name has changed several times.

Rome was founded in 735 BC.

A slow process of stagnation began for Bruges.

The first fortifications in the area of Bruges were built as early as the 1st century BC.

The Kaliningrad Oblast is a Russian enclave in Central Europe on the Baltic Sea.

Not far from the Finnish capitals is the 18th-century fortress of Suomenlinna, which is called the Gibraltar of the North.

Ephesus is located in the west of Anatolia - a historical land in Turkey, 6 km from the Aegean Sea.

Olomouc’s Upper Square is also home to the Gothic Town Hall, a historic building that was the former seat of the city government.