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Saturday, 22 November 2025
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
An international conference of representatives from sixteen European countries, which lasted from September 1814 to June 1815, called the Congress of Vienna, was held in Vienna.
It was convened to review the territorial and political changes caused by the outbreak of the French ...
Copenhagen
The first traces of human activity in the area of today's city date back 12.000 years.
Epheseus
Saint Paul had to escape from Ephesus.
While preaching by Saint Paul in the Grand Theater, one of the craftsmen, the jeweler Demetrius, who ...
Philadelphia
In 1835, the first general strike in North America took place in Philadelphia, in which workers won a ten-hour day.
Immigrants came to the city, mainly from Ireland and Germany, who were fleeing the Great Famine in t ...
Epheseus
Ephesus was originally an ancient Greek city.
It was probably founded as an Ionian city in the 9th century BC (some believe that in the 11th-14th ...
Vienna
Vienna was founded around the 5th century BC by the Boers (a large Celtic tribe), as a Celtic settlement.
Around 15 BC, this settlement was conquered by the Romans, who set up a camp of the 10th Legion call ...
Paris
The Louvre is known for its grand collection of top world-famous works of art, the most prestigious being the Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci.
Bruges
Bruges has a nearly 100-kilometer-long network of active canals, by which it is connected to Ostend, Zeebrugge (a port built by the Germans during World War I for U-boats), and Ghent.
Because of its sizable network of canals, Bruges is often referred to as the Venice of Flanders.
Glastonbury
The Irish king's son, Saint Indracht, died at Glastonbury.
Paris
The tallest skyscraper in France is the Tour First.
It is located in La Défense and is 231 meters tall.