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Tuesday, 11 August 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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San Gimignano
Since the 10th century, San Gimignano was governed by the bishops of Volterra (a city in the province of Pisa), although they never lived in the city itself.
In the Middle Ages and during the Renaissance, Catholic pilgrims heading to Rome and the Vatican sto ...
Copenhagen
The city's population exceeds 520.000 people.
Vienna
The historic city center, full of monuments from all historical eras, was included on the UNESCO World Heritage List in 2001.
Vienna is one of the most visited cities in Europe.
Vienna
Native Austrians make up almost 77.7 percent of the capital’s population.
The remaining percentage is made up of foreigners, of whom there are more than 386.000 in Vienna.
Vienna
About 20.000 hectoliters of wine are produced in Vienna each year.
Most of Vienna’s wine is sold locally. Vienna’s culture of taverns serving young Heuriger wine is part of UNESCO’s Intangible Cultural Heritage as of 2019.
Tallinn
The first traces of settlement that archaeologists found in Tallinn are about 5000 years old.
These were fragments of pottery from around 3000 BC, and pottery from the single grave culture around 2500 BC.Around 1050, the first fortress was built on Toompea Hill in today's Tallinn.
Rome
The 1960 Summer Olympic Games were held in Rome.
The first Olympic Games were scheduled to be held in Rome in 1908, but were canceled due to a volcanic eruption and moved to London.
Paris
The longest street in Paris is rue Vaugirard.
It is located in the 15th arrondissement and is 4,36 kilometers long.
Kaliningrad
The Kaliningrad Oblast is a Russian enclave in Central Europe on the Baltic Sea.
It is an administrative unit of the Russian Federation, the westernmost region of Russia. It covers ...
Vienna
There are about 800 farms in the Vienna metropolitan area.
More cucumbers, eggplants, tomatoes, parsley, and chili peppers are harvested here than in the rest of Austria combined.