Cities

San Gimignano was founded thanks to St. Gimignano, the bishop of Modena.

The city's greatest prosperity occurred in the 18th century, during the reign of Maria Theresa Habsburg.

Beer and wine produced in Stuttgart since the 17th century, as well as Swabian cuisine, are now known throughout Germany and beyond.

One of the city’s most popular attractions is the Khan el-Khalili bazaar.

In the early 16th century, when the Zwin Canal, which was the “window to the world,” the source of the city’s power, was silted up, the city began to lose its commercial importance.

There are many churches in the city.

Tourism in Florence is by far the most important of all industries, although manufacturing and trade are also very important.

There was a clause in the city charter that prevented the sale or delivery of water from the aqueduct to any area outside the city limits of Los Angeles.

After the end of World War II, as a result of the Potsdam Conference, Königsberg found itself within the borders of the Soviet Union.

On the Bremen market square, between the town hall and the merchants' building (Schütting), there is a medieval statue of the knight Roland, made famous by the French chivalric epic "The Song of Roland".