Cities

The oldest church in Helsinki is the 1826 Evangelical Lutheran Old Church, designed by Engel.

On April 15, 1956, the Chicago television station, NBC5 Chicago/WMAQ was the first in the world to broadcast a color program.

The oldest tree in Madrid is the Montezuma cypress.

There was a clause in the city charter that prevented the sale or delivery of water from the aqueduct to any area outside the city limits of Los Angeles.

One of the city's most important squares is Puerta del Sol. The name of this place means the gate of the sun, and although the name may come as a surprise today, because the square is located in the city center, in the 15th century an eastern entrance gate to the city was located there.

In 1806, Potsdam was occupied by French troops, personally commanded by Napoleon Bonaparte.

Near St. Petersburg are numerous tourist and recreational destinations with park and palace complexes of former Russian tsars: Tsarskoye Selo, Peterhof, Pavlovsk, Zelenogorsk, and Gatchina.

In 1892, the first suspended railway in the USA was built in the city.

One of the most important examples of Late Gothic architecture in Moravia is the Church of St. Maurice in Olomouc.

The only officially established and significant agglomeration in Estonia is the Tallinn Metropolitan Area.