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Tuesday, 26 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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Hamburg
The port of Hamburg is the third in Europe in terms of the amount of cargo passing through it.
It was created during the reign of Frederick I Barbarossa on 7th  May 1189. Traffic goes through the ...
Kaliningrad
In 1454, the city was incorporated into Poland for a year thanks to King Casimir IV Jagiellon who changed its name to Królewiec.
Casimir IV Jagiellon created the Królewiec Voivodeship, the capital of which was Królewiec. The firs ...
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.
Stuttgart
The city has the only urban rack railway in Germany.
This is a peculiarity of Stuttgart. The rack and pinion railway is powered by electricity and runs b ...
Cairo
The Egyptian Museum is home to about 160,000 exhibits.
It is the oldest archeological museum in the Middle East, in a neoclassical building that opened on ...
Florence
The Laurentian Library (Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana or BML) was built in the cloister of the Medici Basilica of San Lorenzo di Firenze.
The library was designed by Michelangelo and is an example of Mannerism. It contains approximately 1 ...
Paris
The tallest skyscraper in France is the Tour First.
It is located in La Défense and is 231 meters tall.
Florence
At the beginning of the 19th century (1801-1807), Florence was the capital of the Napoleonic kingdom of Etruria.
It covered a large part of modern Tuscany and took its name from the Roman name of the Etruscan land.
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 ...
Tallinn
It is the political and economic center of the country.
Tallinn is the seat of the main institutions of the Republic of Estonia, the parliament (Rigikogu), the presidential residence, and ministries. It is also the administrative center of Harju County.