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Wednesday, 8 April 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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Florence
Florence is a city located in Tuscany, in central Italy.
It is the capital of Tuscany and its most populous city with 383.083 inhabitants (2016) and over 1.5 ...
Dubai
Public displays of affection for one another are not welcome there either.
Hugging or kissing in public can end in arrest.
Kaliningrad
From 1618, Duchy of Prussia was ruled by the Electors of Brandenburg.
In 1657, the Duchy of Prussia became independent from the First Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. The ...
Copenhagen
Copenhagen obtained city rights in 1254.
Palermo
Until the early 20th century, there were hundreds of small opera theaters known as magazzeni in Palermo.
Teatro Massimo (The Greatest Theater) opened in 1897. It is the largest in Italy (8000 square meters ...
Vienna
The history of the waltz, also known as the “Viennese” waltz, is also connected with Vienna.
Its existence as a salon dance began in 1815, during the Congress of Vienna (due to the numerous bal ...
Tallinn
The first traces of settlement that archaeologists found in Tallinn are about 5000 years old.
These were fragments of pottery from around 3000 BC, and pottery from the single grave culture around 2500 BC.Around 1050, the first fortress was built on Toompea Hill in today's Tallinn.
Kaliningrad
In 1552, King Sigismund II August visited Königsberg.
In 1542, Prince Albrecht Hohenzollern, who was the nephew of King Sigismund the Old, established a p ...
San Francisco
The Charter of the United Nations was drafted and ratified in San Francisco.
The document was signed by 50 of 51 member states on June 26, 1945. Poland signed it a few months later, on October 16.
Olomouc
Olomouc was founded in the mid-10th century.
The site was an important point at the crossroads of trade routes: the river route, connecting the O ...