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The most valuable piece of equipment in the Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary is Michelangelo’s sculpture Madonna and Child, also known as the Madonna of Bruges.

Tourism in Florence is by far the most important of all industries, although manufacturing and trade are also very important.

Houses built in the 18th century in Ghent hosted notable figures: King Louis XVIII of France, Tsar Alexander, King William I of the Netherlands, Wellington before he went to Waterloo, and an American delegation with future President John Quincy Adams.

The most traditional architectural style in Shanghai is called Shikumen.

The area in which Potsdam is located was formed from a series of large moraines left over from the last glaciation.

There is a wind farm at the city's waterfront that supplies 4 percent of the city with electricity.

Bruges also has a beautiful, mysterious chapel-the Jerusalemkerk.

Legend has it that Glastonbury was the birthplace of Christianity in the British Isles.

After Russia's annexation of two self-proclaimed republics in the Ukrainian Donbas in 2022 and the earlier annexation of Crimea, Czech and Polish “X” (former Twitter) users put forward the idea of annexing Kaliningrad to the Czech Republic.

It received city rights on March 4, 1837.