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Sunday, 2 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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Shanghai
It has its own dialect.
Shanghainese is so distinctive from Chinese that most people from around the country cannot understand it.
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 ...
Potsdam
He also transformed Sanssouci Park into his summer residence.
Before the Sanssouci residence was built, first, terraced gardens were created on the southern slope ...
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 ...
Philadelphia
In the 1750s, Philadelphia was the largest city and busiest port in British America.
It also became the second-largest city in the entire British Empire after London. As a result of the ...
Bruges
Bruges has a nearly 100-kilometer-long network of active canals, by which it is connected to Ostend, Zeebrugge (a port built by the Germans during World War I for U-boats), and Ghent.
Because of its sizable network of canals, Bruges is often referred to as the Venice of Flanders.
Dubai
The weekend in Dubai starts on Thursday evening and lasts until the end of Saturday. Sunday is a working day.
Bruges
The first fortifications in the area of Bruges were built as early as the 1st century BC.
They were built after Julius Caesar conquered the area to protect it from pirates.
Vienna
The first completed building on the Ring was the Vienna State Opera.
The opera house opened on 25th May 1869, with a production of Mozart’s opera “Don Giovanni.”
Stuttgart
Due to its location in the center of Swabia and the local dialect spoken by the native Swabians, Stuttgart is often called the Swabian metropolis.
Its etymological roots lie in the Old High German word Stuotgarten or "Stud Farm", as the town was founded in 950 by Liudolf, Duke of Swabia, to breed war horses.