Cities

The city’s main landmark and probably the most famous building in all of Finland is the Helsinki Cathedral, completed in 1852.

Munich was the cradle of Nazism. In 1919, the German Workers' Party was founded in the Munich hotel "Fürstenfelder Hof", which was transformed into the NSDAP by Adolf Hitler on February 24, 1920.

In that year, 64 cities were consumed by a huge fire. The event is known as the Great Fire of Rome.

Originally, Paris was called Lutetia and was a Roman settlement.

The Marble Palace, built for Catherine II by her favorite Grigory Orlov, was home to Stanisław II August, King of Poland, from 1797 until his death.

Traditional feasts are held in one of the town hall halls, the upper town hall with soaring Gothic windows and an impressive collection of replicas of merchant ships.

Johannes Brahms and Felix Mendelssohn, two great composers of classical music, were born in Hamburg.

Helsinki has quite a few buildings inspired by Art nouveau (Jugend in Finnish), belonging to the Romantic Nationalism trend.

There are many different churches and religious buildings in Florence.

In 1857, the German transport company Norddeutscher Lloyd (NDL) was established in the city.