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Sunday, 30 November 2025
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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Vienna
On 9th August 1918, the flight over Vienna took place - a propaganda action by Italian pilots who, during World War I, dropped propaganda leaflets in the districts of Vienna, calling on the Austrians to end the war.
This flight had no military significance, only propaganda, both in Italy and abroad. In addition to ...
Shanghai
Shanghai means “on the sea.”
It is an appropriate name, considering that Shanghai is located at the mouth of the Huangpu River.
Philadelphia
Philadelphia is a national cultural center.
It is home to sixty-seven national monuments, including Independence Hall, and has more outdoor scul ...
Florence
One of the Medici was Lorenzo di Piero de' Medici, de facto ruler of the Florentine Republic, and the most powerful and enthusiastic patron of Renaissance culture in Italy.
Lorenzo was a great patron of art, commissioning works of Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and Botti ...
Epheseus
Ephesus was originally an ancient Greek city.
It was probably founded as an Ionian city in the 9th century BC (some believe that in the 11th-14th ...
Hamburg
Miniatur Wunderland is the world’s largest miniature railway located in the Speicherstadt area of Hamburg.
There you can admire the world on a miniature scale with recreated regions such as the Harz Mountain ...
Copenhagen
The first traces of human activity in the area of today's city date back 12.000 years.
Cairo
The Al-Azhar Mosque is said to be the most renowned educational institution in Sunni Islam.
It is one of the oldest and most important in the Arab world. Its construction began shortly after t ...
Chicago
Spray paint was invented by Ed Seymour, a salesman who lived and lived in Chicago.
Los Angeles
In the 1930s and 1940s, Los Angeles County was a national leader in agriculture.
After the end of World War II, Los Angeles grew faster than ever. During the 1950s and 1960s, a netw ...