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Thursday, 13 August 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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Vienna
There are 1400 kilometers of bicycle paths, bicycle lanes, and bicycle routes through low-traffic zones in Vienna.
City bicycles can be rented at 121 stations.
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Los Angeles
The area of the city is 1302 square kilometers.
The city is the center of the Los Angeles-Long Beach-Santa Ana agglomeration, which is inhabited by ...
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Dubai
The Dubai metro is segregated by gender.
There are separate carriages for women and children and separate ones for men. There are also VIP carriages.
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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 ...
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Philadelphia
The United States Postal Service (USPS) is the oldest postal service in the United States.
Its history dates back to 1775 when the Continental Congress appointed the first Postmaster General, ...
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Shanghai
Shanghai has its own Disney Resort.
It is 11 times larger than the original park located in Anaheim, California. At the same time, it is ...
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Chicago
In 1943, Ike Sewell invented and created the world's first Chicago-style pizza.
This type of pizza is characterized by a thick layer of dough and ingredients and looks more like a casserole or a tart.
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Florence
The Florence skyline is dominated by the cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore, called Il Duomo by the Italians, topped by Brunelleschi's dome.
Brunelleschi’s design involved building the largest dome ever built at the time and the first larger ...
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Florence
The city is located near the Apennines, in a basin formed by the surrounding clay hills.
The Arno River (the most important river in central Italy after the Tiber) and three smaller rivers (Mugnone, Ema, and Greve) flow through it.
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Bremen
Bremen is a city very friendly to immigrants.
In 2015, all refugees who came to Bremen found help. The city has found accommodation for 2000 people, and the rest were taken in by the city's inhabitants.
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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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