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Friday, 6 November 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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Potsdam
He also transformed Sanssouci Park into his summer residence.
Before the Sanssouci residence was built, first, terraced gardens were created on the southern slope ...
Saint Petersburg
The symbol of the Petropavlovsk Fortress, the entire city, and tsarist power, is the Saints Peter and Paul Cathedral, which is crowned by a 122-meter spire.
The construction of this church was undertaken a month after work on the fortification began. It was ...
Potsdam
In 1415, Potsdam became the property of the Hohenzollerns.
In 1660, the city was chosen as the hunting residence of the Elector of Brandenburg, Frederick William I, and became the core of a powerful state that later transformed into the Kingdom of Prussia.
Helsinki
The city has about 11.000 boat moorings.
It also gas more than 14.000 hectares of marine fishing waters adjacent to the capital region. There ...
Cairo
Cairo is the 37th most popular tourist destination.
In 2019, it was visited by 6,81 million tourists, more than half of all visitors to Egypt.
Saint Petersburg
The city's population was growing steadily.
At the beginning of the 19th century, about 300.000 people lived in St. Petersburg, in 1853 - about ...
Epheseus
Saint John died in Ephesus, and Emperor Justinian, in the first half of the 6th century, ordered a basilica to be built over his grave, which is now located on the Ayasuluk hills, east of the temple of Artemis.
During excavations around the tomb of St. John, five small tombs were discovered. Together with the ...
Epheseus
In the years 540-480 BC, a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher (the period in ancient philosophy before Socrates) lived in Ephesus - Heraclitus.
The most famous element of the philosophy of Heraclitus of Ephesus is the concept of change as the c ...
Vienna
Kulczycki is widely credited with opening the first café in Vienna and one of the first in Europe, known as the “House Under the Blue Bottle” on Schlossergassl Street, next to the cathedral.
In this establishment, to commemorate his victory over the Turks, he was said to have served crescen ...
Philadelphia
Until the end of the 18th century, Philadelphia was the largest city in the United States.
It was also the country's financial and cultural center, and projects to build new roads, canals, an ...