Cities

Finnish and Swedish are the official languages in Helsinki.

However, the character of the city is beginning to change, and in 2025 the first urban high-rise building – Elbtower – is to be completed.

Between 1577 and 1584, Ghent became a Calvinist republic.

The Florentine plain and the surrounding hills have been inhabited since prehistoric times, as evidenced by archaeological finds in the area.

St. Petersburg has 41 universities, more than 170 scientific research institutions, more than two thousand libraries, the Pulkovo Observatory, the Mariinsky Theater, and the world-renowned 1862 Philharmonic Hall.

It is the eleventh largest city in Germany and the second largest city in northern Germany, after Hamburg.

The first non-Indian settler to arrive in these lands was Jean Baptiste Point du Sable.

In the second half of the 20th century, an Austrian archaeological mission cleaned up the ruins of St. John's Basilica and rebuilt the confession (the tomb of a saint, martyr or the vestibule leading to his tomb placed under the main altar, or the altar) of St. John.

The series of terrorist attacks in 2004 took many lives.

There are 20 arrondissements in Paris arranged in a spiral, that extends from the city center.