Cities

The city was surrounded by walls with four gates.

A new Ghent-Bruges waterway was built, which was later extended to the ports of Ostend and Dunkirk.

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.

In 1938, Adolf Hitler triumphantly entered Vienna.

One of Florence's tourist attractions is Fontana del Porcellino - Il Porcellino - "the piglet".

In the 15th century, Florence was one of the largest cities in Europe.

Shanghai’s signature dessert is the Tangyuan.

Olomouc’s Upper Square is also home to the Gothic Town Hall, a historic building that was the former seat of the city government.

In 2020, the world's first Museum of Happiness opened in Copenhagen.

In the 7th century BC, the city was destroyed by the Kimmerians - a nomadic Indo-European people most likely coming from the vicinity of Crimea and the parts of today's Ukraine adjacent to Crimea.