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Saturday, 24 January 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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Hamburg
At the beginning of their career, the Beatles often played in Hamburg.
In honor of the band, a square called Beatles-Platz was created at the intersection of Reeperbahn an ...
Vienna
The city is divided into 23 districts, which do not have autonomy, they are only parts of a unified municipal administration.
Street and square nameplates display the district numbers.
Shanghai
The bus system in Shanghai is the world’s most extensive.
There are over 1,000 bus lines throughout the city.
Paris
The Louvre Museum is the most visited museum in the world.
Every year it attracts around 10 million visitors.
Olomouc
The city center is located at an altitude of 219 meters above sea level.
The area occupied by the city has the character of a flat plain bounded on the west and east by a st ...
Los Angeles
Los Angeles is inhabited by people from over 140 countries who speak 224 languages of the world.
The majority are white people (49.8%), followed by African Americans (9.6%), people of Indian origin ...
Saint Petersburg
The first structure that initiated the construction of the city was the Petropavlovsk Fortress.
Construction of the fortress began on Zayachy Island (Hare Island), located at the mouth of the Neva ...
Madrid
Unofficially, it became the capital of Spain in 1561 when Philip II moved his court here. This move accelerated the city's development.
Although in the middle of the 16th century it had a population of just over 20,000, by the end of th ...
Epheseus
Saint John died in Ephesus, and Emperor Justinian, in the first half of the 6th century, ordered a basilica to be built over his grave, which is now located on the Ayasuluk hills, east of the temple of Artemis.
During excavations around the tomb of St. John, five small tombs were discovered. Together with the ...
Stuttgart
Beer and wine produced in Stuttgart since the 17th century, as well as Swabian cuisine, are now known throughout Germany and beyond.
In 2009, the Ministry of Agriculture announced that the European Union would officially recognize Ma ...