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Tuesday, 2 December 2025
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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Tallinn
After the collapse of the Soviet Union, on August 20, 1991, Estonia declared independence, and Tallinn became its capital again.
Tallinn gradually regained its western face. In addition to Danish and German influences, traces of ...
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.
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 ...
Munich
The famous Allianz Arena is located in the city.
Since the beginning of the 2005/2006 season, Bayern Munich has played host games at the stadium, with Robert Lewandowski playing from 2014 to 2022.
Munich
Munich was the cradle of Nazism. In 1919, the German Workers' Party was founded in the Munich hotel "Fürstenfelder Hof", which was transformed into the NSDAP by Adolf Hitler on February 24, 1920.
In Munich, at Briennerstraße 45, the NSDAP leadership had its headquarters in the years 1930 - 1945, ...
Hamburg
In the first week of May, the port celebrates its opening anniversary.
During the event, you can visit the decks of both old galleons and modern vessels. Musical events and pyrotechnics shows are organized.
Los Angeles
The area of the city is 1302 square kilometers.
The city is the center of the Los Angeles-Long Beach-Santa Ana agglomeration, which is inhabited by ...
Kaliningrad
Originally, in the place of present-day Kaliningrad, there was a Prussian settlement, which until the 13th century was called Twangeste ("Oak Forest").
In 1231, the Teutonic Order began the conquest of these lands and in 1255 Twangeste was destroyed an ...
Saint Petersburg
The date of the city's founding is considered to be May 27, 1703 (May 16, 1703, according to the Julian calendar).
This date was immortalized on a stone slab specially prepared for the occasion, on which an inscript ...
Chicago
The first skyscraper in the world was built in 1885 in Chicago. It was the Home Insurance Company Building.