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Friday, 9 October 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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Chicago
The first skyscraper in the world was built in 1885 in Chicago. It was the Home Insurance Company Building.
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Tallinn
Tallinn (together with Turku in Finland) was the European Capital of Culture in 2011.
There are over 60 museums and galleries in the capital of Estonia.
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Rome
Rome has two major football clubs.
AS Roma and S.S. Lazio provide an unforgettable experience for their fans. Lazio is the older club, ...
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Florence
The panorama of Florence is dominated by the city cathedral - Duomo, as well as Palazzo Vecchio - the city hall.
Palazzo Vecchio (Old Palace) located in Piazza della Signoria is the former seat of the city council ...
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Munich
The first people lived in Munich between the 7th and 6th centuries BC.
In the times of the Roman Empire, there was a road near the city on which a Roman settlement was built.
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Saint Petersburg
Regardless of the social changes, St. Petersburg was developing all the time.
New palaces and religious buildings continued to be built, while wealthy capitalists and landowners ...
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Shanghai
The city of Shanghai participated in the Second Sino-Japanese War.
The first engagement of the Second Sino-Japanese War took place in 1937 and is called the Battle of ...
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Copenhagen
The city's population exceeds 520.000 people.
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Los Angeles
Los Angeles is inhabited by people from over 140 countries who speak 224 languages of the world.
The majority are white people (49.8%), followed by African Americans (9.6%), people of Indian origin ...
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Florence
The Galeria dell'Accademia houses Michelangelo's David - probably the most famous work of art in the world.
It is one of the most important works of Renaissance sculpture, next to the Pieta, the most famous s ...
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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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