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Wednesday, 13 May 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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Saint Petersburg
St. Petersburg is home to a car factory employing 6700 people, where the Chevrolet Cruze is produced.
Bruges
In the early 16th century, when the Zwin Canal, which was the “window to the world,” the source of the city’s power, was silted up, the city began to lose its commercial importance.
Antwerp was becoming a commercial powerhouse. Lace-making (the famous Brabant lace lace with a pattern of swirling branches on a tulle background) declined in the 17th century.
Vienna
After World War II, Vienna once again became the capital of Austria.
Like Berlin, it was divided into four occupation zones: Russian, American, British and French. The f ...
Saint Petersburg
In the early 19th century, the architecture of St. Petersburg was dominated by Russian classicism, which combined European classicism with elements of native construction.
The style of construction was greatly influenced by the victory over Napoleon, and ideas of patrioti ...
Helsinki
Helsinki also has Europe’s largest sobering house.
Alcohol prices are among the high ones in Finland, and yet Europe’s largest sobering-up room has bee ...
Paris
There are 20 arrondissements in Paris arranged in a spiral, that extends from the city center.
Bremen
The history of Bremen is 1200 years old.
For most of its existence, it was an independent city under the jurisdiction of the Confederation of ...
Palermo
Palermo is known for the existence of its most powerful mafia criminal group, Cosa Nostra.
The activity of the Sicilian Mafia in Palermo was particularly notorious in one area of the city, Pa ...
Olomouc
In the 16th century, Jesuits arrived in Olomouc.
They founded a Jesuit college, which became a university in 1573. Today it is Palacký University, th ...
Kaliningrad
The Kaliningrad Oblast includes the historical lands of Sambia, Lower Prussia, and Lithuania Minor, also known as Little Lithuania or Prussian Lithuania.
About 1/3 of the perimeter area (including a significant part of the coast and the entire Russian pa ...