Cities

Legend has it that Glastonbury was the birthplace of Christianity in the British Isles.

Ghent is located in the northwestern part of Belgium, in Flanders - a former part of the Netherlands.

In 1485, Vienna was occupied by King Matthias Corvinus of Hungary.

The Charter of the United Nations was drafted and ratified in San Francisco.

Houses built in the 18th century in Ghent hosted notable figures: King Louis XVIII of France, Tsar Alexander, King William I of the Netherlands, Wellington before he went to Waterloo, and an American delegation with future President John Quincy Adams.

Florence is so rich in works of art that some first-time visitors experience the Stendhal syndrome.

During the anti-presidential riots of 2011, there was a series of break-ins into the Egyptian Museum.

Vienna was founded around the 5th century BC by the Boers (a large Celtic tribe), as a Celtic settlement.

In St. Petersburg, Adam Mickiewicz lived for a year in a tenement house, the wall of which bears a plaque commemorating this fact.

Stuttgart is home to Germany's ninth-largest exhibition center, the Stuttgart Trade Fair, located on the outskirts of the city, next to Stuttgart Airport.