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Sunday, 26 July 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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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 ...
Epheseus
In the 1st century AD, the Christian faith reached Ephesus.
A conflict began between the Christian god and the pagan gods. One of the people involved in this co ...
Bruges
The Madonna of Bruges has been stolen twice.
In 1794, during the French Revolution, French revolutionaries took control of Bruges and took the st ...
Tallinn
The official language of Tallinn is Estonian.
In 2011, 50.1% of Tallinn's population spoke Estonian as their native language, and 46.7% spoke Russian as their native language.
Helsinki
A landmark event in the life of Helsinki was the 1952 Olympic Games.
The 1952 Summer Olympics were the last of two consecutive Olympic Games to be held in Northern Europ ...
Tallinn
The highest hill in Tallinn is a point located in Hiiu, in the Nõmme district, in the southwestern part of the city - its height is 64 m above sea level.
A limestone cliff runs through the town and can be seen at Toompea and Lasnamäe. This cliff forms th ...
Glastonbury
There are numerous myths associated with Glastonbury Hill.
They concern King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table, Joseph of Arimathea, and the Holy Grail ...
Bratislava
Bratislava (Prešburg) became the capital of Hungary in 1541.
For 300 years, the Gothic St. Martin's Cathedral hosted the coronations of Hungarian kings of the Habsburg dynasty and convened assemblies there. The Hungarian parliament was housed there until 1848.
Hamburg
The first modern zoo in the world was established in Hamburg.
When it opened, this zoo was groundbreaking by the standards of facilities of this type at that time ...
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 ...