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Wednesday, 24 June 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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Helsinki
Helsinki’s neoclassical buildings have often been used by Hollywood filmmakers.
They served as a backdrop for scenes set in the Soviet Union during the Cold War, when filming in th ...
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Los Angeles
As early as 1542, the area of southern California was recognized as part of the Spanish colonial empire.
On August 2, 1769, the Spanish officer Gaspar de Portola, who served as the first governor of Califo ...
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Ghent
In the 7th century, the French monk Amand (Catholic saint, apostle of Flanders) came to Flanders to preach the gospel.
He began his evangelization from Ghent, where he was not well received at first, but eventually, his work bore fruit. Amand established many monasteries in the Flanders area.
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Philadelphia
In 1852, the Czech-German priest and missionary Johannes Nepomucene Neumann was ordained Bishop of Philadelphia.
During his eight-year term, he laid the foundations for the Catholic parochial school system that st ...
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Stuttgart
Stuttgart is the seat of a Protestant bishop (Protestant State Church in Württemberg) and one of the two co-seats of the bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Rottenburg-Stuttgart.
The Pentecostal Gospel Forum based in Stuttgart is the largest place of worship (megachurch) in Germany. It is also the seat of a large English-speaking church, the International Baptist Church.
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Chicago
On April 15, 1956, the Chicago television station, NBC5 Chicago/WMAQ was the first in the world to broadcast a color program.
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Shanghai
The bus system in Shanghai is the world’s most extensive.
There are over 1,000 bus lines throughout the city.
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Madrid
Over 800,000 trees grow in Madrid.
Madrid is the city with the most trees and green spaces per capita in all of Europe. Unfortunately, ...
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Epheseus
The Basilica of St. John and the Cave of the Seven Sleepers comes from the Christian period of Ephesus.
The Cave of the Seven Sleepers is a Byzantine-era necropolis located near the ruins of ancient Ephes ...
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Hamburg
The Kontorhausviertel is also on the World Cultural Heritage List.
It is an office district with buildings from the 1920s and 1930s built in the style of brick expressionism.
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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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