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Saturday, 11 July 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
The one-story palace built in the gardens was intended to be only a summer residence, for the private use of the king and his guests.
Fryderyk planned to spend time there sans souci (without worries), devoting time to his interests an ...
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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
The main ingredient of Shanghai cuisine is sugar.
It is known as a “sweet tooth” city. Sugar is the basic ingredient of various sauces, thus overall, dishes eaten in Shanghai are considered the sweetest in China.
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Hamburg
It is a city with traditional historic buildings.
There are no skyscrapers in it, the tallest object is the Heinrich-Turm TV tower with a height of 27 ...
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Ghent
A new Ghent-Bruges waterway was built, which was later extended to the ports of Ostend and Dunkirk.
It was used by some 50.000 people a year, and one of the most prominent passengers was Czar Peter the Great of Russia.
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Vienna
Vienna is one of the greenest cities in the world and is also a city with the highest quality of life.
There are 990 city parks there. Thanks to the Vienna Forest complex and the Danube area, almost half ...
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Ghent
Ghent in the 15th century was a city of culture and an important scientific center.
It was there that the van Eyck brothers created the Altarpiece of the Mystic Lamb in 1432, and it wa ...
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Tallinn
Tallinn is the 59th most populous city in the European Union.
According to Eurostat, in 2004 Tallinn had one of the highest numbers of non-European Union citizens ...
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Potsdam
After German reunification in 1990, the state of Brandenburg was created and Potsdam became its capital.
A large part of the city's cultural landscape was then included on the UNESCO World Heritage List. T ...
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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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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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