Cities

Vienna is the capital and largest city of Austria.

Thanks to the counts of Flanders, Baldwin Iron Arm and his son, Baldwin II “the Bald,” Ghent began to regain its status.

One of the most important monuments in Bruges is the one commemorating the events from below Kortrijk, the Battle of the Golden Spurs.

Vienna is home to Austria’s famous Wiener Philharmoniker orchestra and the Wiener Sangerknaben boys’ choir.

Speicherstadt is the world’s largest warehouse complex in the world.

American writer Edgar Allan Poe spent six very productive years in Philadelphia.

The cathedral grounds contain the tombs of all Russian tsars, beginning with Peter I.

The Laurentian Library (Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana or BML) was built in the cloister of the Medici Basilica of San Lorenzo di Firenze.

As early as the beginning of the 13th century, the city belonged to the Hanseatic League (an association of Northern European trading cities from the Middle Ages and the beginning of the modern era).

Shanghai started as a fishing village, then developed into a market town in the 12th century.