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Tuesday, 3 March 2026
37 facts about Saint Petersburg
37 facts about Saint Petersburg
A city of many names
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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Paris
The tallest skyscraper in France is the Tour First.
It is located in La Défense and is 231 meters tall.
Potsdam
After German reunification in 1990, the state of Brandenburg was created and Potsdam became its capital.
A large part of the city's cultural landscape was then included on the UNESCO World Heritage List. T ...
Olomouc
In the 16th century, Jesuits arrived in Olomouc.
They founded a Jesuit college, which became a university in 1573. Today it is Palacký University, th ...
Saint Petersburg
The unofficial, fondling, colloquial name of the city is Piter.
It was used as early as the 19th century, in Soviet times and now.
Los Angeles
Los Angeles is located in the so-called Pacific Ring of Fire, where geological instability has contributed to the creation of a series of faults that cause approximately 10.000 earthquakes in these areas annually.
One of the most important faults is the San Andes, located on the border of the Pacific and North Am ...
Vienna
Shortly after the outbreak of the Spring of Nations in 1848, when citizens took to the streets of Vienna demanding the introduction of reforms in the country, Franz Joseph I took power, leading to the creation of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy in 1867.
In addition to the dismantling of the city walls and the construction of the Ringstrase, along which ...
Hamburg
In Hamburg, you can visit the deck of a submarine.
Although the name may suggest visiting a German vessel, it is the U-Boat Museum Hamburg.The ship is ...
Saint Petersburg
St. Petersburg is one of Russia's largest seaports.
Ghent
In the 13th century, the Lieve canal, 45 km long, was built in Ghent, and later, facing Antwerp, the Sasse Vaart canal.
San Gimignano
Since the 10th century, San Gimignano was governed by the bishops of Volterra (a city in the province of Pisa), although they never lived in the city itself.
In the Middle Ages and during the Renaissance, Catholic pilgrims heading to Rome and the Vatican sto ...