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Thursday, 27 November 2025
20 facts about Stuttgart
20 facts about Stuttgart
A German city with the highest standard of wealth
Stuttgart is one of the largest agglomerations in Germany, the capital of the state of Baden-Württemberg. It is a city with a rich wine tradition, the ...

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Chicago
While in Chicago, it is worth visiting the Museum of Science and Industry.
It is the largest museum dedicated to science and engineering in this region. In the museum you can ...
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Helsinki
Helsinki is a port city.
The Port of Helsinki is the largest port for cargo and passenger traffic in Finland.In 2019, ferry t ...
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Ghent
Legends are associated with the figure of Amand, telling of his efforts to convert the people of Ghent and the surrounding area to Christianity.
Amand arrived in Ghent by boat, but when he wanted to go ashore from it, the residents threw him int ...
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Ghent
Ghent is an important seaport.
The mainstay of the economy is the textile, electrical machinery, chemical, leather, and food processing industries. It is a major flower breeding center.
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Philadelphia
In 2021, Time magazine named Philadelphia is one of the 100 best places in the world.
In 2016, the city was visited by 42 million domestic tourists, whose stay added $6.8 billion to the city's coffers.
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Ghent
In the 13th century, the Lieve canal, 45 km long, was built in Ghent, and later, facing Antwerp, the Sasse Vaart canal.
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Rome
Rome has two major football clubs.
AS Roma and S.S. Lazio provide an unforgettable experience for their fans. Lazio is the older club, ...
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Vienna
Vienna has the largest public park in central Europe and one of the largest in the world, the Wiener Prater.
Emperor Joseph II made the former Habsburg hunting grounds available to the public in 1766, which ga ...
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Hamburg
The Kontorhausviertel is also on the World Cultural Heritage List.
It is an office district with buildings from the 1920s and 1930s built in the style of brick expressionism.
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San Gimignano
San Gimignano is a walled medieval town in the province of Siena in Tuscany in north-central Italy.
It covers an area of 138 square kilometers and is located on a hill in the valley of the Elsa River– ...
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24 facts about Bremen
24 facts about Bremen
A city of tolerance and opportunities
Bremen, a city on the Weser, is located a short distance from its mouth into the North Sea. Its hallmark and pride are the values it has been professi ...
19 facts about Hamburg
19 facts about Hamburg
Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg
This beautiful city with old buildings existed already in the early Middle Ages when it served as a center of Christianization. Its city port is one o ...
31 facts about Helsinki
31 facts about Helsinki
The northernmost urban area in the world
Helsinki is the capital and largest city of Finland, the third largest city in the Nordic countries. It is the northernmost capital of a European Unio ...
48 facts about Vienna
48 facts about Vienna
One of the greenest cities in the world
Vienna, the capital of Austria, is a city of imperial palaces, the Viennese waltz, Sacher cake, classical music, and New Year’s concerts by the Vienna ...
31 facts about Bruges
31 facts about Bruges
Cradle of Flemish painting
Bruges is a small Belgian city that, in the Middle Ages, was a commercial and financial powerhouse of this part of Europe. At the time, it was one of ...
21 facts about Palermo
21 facts about Palermo
A city founded by Phoenicians
Palermo is a city founded by the Phoenicians over 2700 years ago. Located in a valley that the Arabs called Conca d’Oro in the 9th century, it is surr ...
19 facts about Olomouc
19 facts about Olomouc
The historic capital of Moravia
Olomouc, located in the eastern part of the Czech Republic, is a beautiful, though not very popular, city. As the capital of Moravia, it has a rich hi ...
17 facts about San Gimignano
17 facts about San Gimignano
The Town of Fine Towers
San Gimignano is a charming town in the heart of Italian Tuscany, which mesmerizes with an unprecedented beauty, fascinating history, and unique chara ...
27 facts about Rome
27 facts about Rome
The Eternal City hides many fascinating secrets
The history of Rome has been continuous for 28 centuries, although it is known that the area was inhabited much earlier. Rome is one of the longest in ...
30 facts about Shanghai
30 facts about Shanghai
The Paris of the East
Shanghai is the most eclectic city in China. It combines various architectural styles and is known as the Chinese center of Art Deco. Developing at a ...
23 facts about Paris
23 facts about Paris
City of Light
Paris is very eagerly visited by tourists. It surprises with the number of monuments and architectural marvels from various historical periods. Hundre ...
17 facts about Madrid
17 facts about Madrid
The bear and the strawberry tree
The medieval city dates back to the times when the Moors lived in this area. Situated on the Meseta Central near the Manzanares River, it was an excel ...
16 facts about Cairo
16 facts about Cairo
The city of a thousand minarets
Settlements in the area around today’s Cairo existed over five thousand years ago. Over the years, the city’s surroundings passed from hand to hand—fr ...
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