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It was a dream and a matter of prestige for the Romanov dynasty to gain access to the Baltic Sea and build a metropolis to testify to Russia's emergin ...

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Potsdam

Many distinguished guests stayed in the palace next to the king.

Voltaire is said to have lived there. There is also a hypothesis that Bishop Ignacy Krasicki wrote t ...

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Ghent

Ghent's area is 156.2 square kilometers.

As of 2014, it had a population of more than 251.000 or 1607 people/km2.

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Cairo

The capital of Ancient Egypt, Memphis, was located near Cairo.

The city was founded before the 31st century B.C. and was abandoned in the 7th century AD after the ...

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Tallinn

Tallinn (together with Turku in Finland) was the European Capital of Culture in 2011.

There are over 60 museums and galleries in the capital of Estonia.

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Philadelphia

In 2021, Time magazine named Philadelphia is one of the 100 best places in the world.

In 2016, the city was visited by 42 million domestic tourists, whose stay added $6.8 billion to the city's coffers.

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Bremen

There are many copies of the Bremen Roland around the world.

One of them is an approximately 1.5-meter-high wooden copy located in the Evangelical Lutheran Churc ...

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Florence

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

It is a type of neurotic disorder manifested by rapid heartbeat, dizziness, disorientation, and even ...

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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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Florence

Florence is the city where the leading representatives of Italian painting, architecture, and sculpture lived and worked.

The following artists worked there: Leonardo da Vinci, Donatello, Michelangelo, Cimabue (Cenni di Pe ...

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Florence

The Florence skyline is dominated by the cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore, called Il Duomo by the Italians, topped by Brunelleschi's dome.

Brunelleschi’s design involved building the largest dome ever built at the time and the first larger ...

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24 facts about Potsdam

The residence of the Prussian kings

Potsdam is the capital of Brandenburg. Due to its historical past, it is an international city, which is also reflected in the diversity of city partn ...

24 facts about Kaliningrad

Königsberg

Kaliningrad is the capital and largest city of the Kaliningrad Oblast, the westernmost federal subject of Russia. The former German capital of East Pr ...

27 facts about Tallinn

One of the most intelligent cities in the world

Tallinn is the capital and largest city of Estonia, home to one-third of the country's population. It is located on the shores of the Gulf of Finland ...

37 facts about Los Angeles

One of the most influential cities in the world

Los Angeles, the largest city in California and the second largest city in the United States, was founded in 1781 when a group of settlers founded a p ...

22 facts about Munich

Not only beer and sausage

Munich is Germany's southernmost large city. His coat of arms depicts a monk with raised arms in black robes. The choice of the symbol is not accident ...

44 facts about Ghent

City of three towers

Ghent is one of Belgium's most visited cities by tourists. This beautiful old Flanders city combines dignity, beauty, culture, and creativity. It is a ...

16 facts about Glastonbury

The Legend of Avalon

Glastonbury - one of the most mysterious places in England. This place attracts people with various interests. Romantics come here because of the lege ...

24 facts about Dubai

Reportedly, Dubai's only limitation is human imagination

Located on the southern shore of the Persian Gulf, Dubai is one of the seven emirates that have made up the United Arab Emirates since 1971. The city ...

34 facts about Chicago

From an Indian settlement to one of the largest cities in the USA

It is one of the largest American cities and one of the most important business areas. It is inhabited by a large number of people with Polish roots, ...

26 facts about Copenhagen

The capital of Denmark

It is considered the happiest city in the world. It is a paradise for cyclists, whom you can meet a lot here as they travel along the countless bicycl ...

30 facts about Epheseus

One of the greatest ancient cities

Ephesus is probably the best-preserved ancient city in the Mediterranean. Founded in the most beautiful corners of Western Anatolia, during its heyday ...

14 facts about Bratislava

The largest city in Slovakia

Bratislava is the capital and largest city in Slovakia. Although it is one of the youngest capitals in the world, the city's history dates back to ant ...

15 facts about San Francisco

Oro en Paz, Fierro en guerra

San Francisco is located on the west coast of the United States at the northern tip of the San Francisco Peninsula. It began to develop dynamically in ...

22 facts about Philadelphia

"City of Brotherly Love"

Philadelphia is one of the most important and historically rich cities in the United States, the first capital of the US.Founded for religious toleran ...

34 facts about Florence

The cradle of the Renaissance

Florence is the capital of Tuscany and its most populated city. During the Middle Ages, it was one of the richest cities of that era. Many scientists ...