Cities

Copenhagen obtained city rights in 1254.

Vienna is an administrative, industrial, commercial, service, academic, tourist, and cultural center of international importance.

The city had a convenient location that provided opportunities for its development.

Bremen is the fourth largest city in the Low German dialect region after Hamburg, Dortmund and Essen.

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).

Every year in early October, Helsinki hosts a traditional herring market.

From 1934 to 1963, there was a famous maximum security prison on Alcatraz Island.

The city experienced a powerful earthquake and huge fires.

As recently as the 1960s, Dubai was a small town in the desert, where cars shared narrow roads with donkeys and camels.

The Jerusalemkerk Chapel has been in the hands of the Adorno family for centuries and is used for family celebrations.