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Sunday, 12 July 2026
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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Stuttgart
Currently, the most visited museum in Stuttgart is the Mercedes-Benz Museum (440.000 visits per year).
In second place, in terms of the number of visitors, is the Art Museum, presenting contemporary art ...
Saint Petersburg
The Marble Palace, built for Catherine II by her favorite Grigory Orlov, was home to Stanisław II August, King of Poland, from 1797 until his death.
The last king of Poland was buried after his death in St. Petersburg on February 12, 1798, in the Church of St. Catherine on the Nevsky Prospekt. He rested there until 1938.
San Gimignano
San Gimignano’s downfall came in 1348, when the city was hit by an epidemic of plague (the Black Death).
The epidemic of the Black Death reached all of Europe at the time, and between 30 and 60 percent of ...
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 ...
San Francisco
The Charter of the United Nations was drafted and ratified in San Francisco.
The document was signed by 50 of 51 member states on June 26, 1945. Poland signed it a few months later, on October 16.
Glastonbury
The place within the abbey, today considered King Arthur's grave, is in fact the place where the deceased's bones were moved in 1278.
The original grave remains unmarked and is located 15 m from the southern door of the Chapel of the Virgin Mary.
Potsdam
In 1806, Potsdam was occupied by French troops, personally commanded by Napoleon Bonaparte.
In 1815, it became the capital of the Brandenburg province and remained so until 1918. The exception ...
Munich
The Munich area is very picturesque.
South of the city there are beautiful lakes such as Stamberg, Ammersee, Chiemesse, and Walchensee. T ...
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.
Glastonbury
Glastonbury is a small town in Great Britain, in Somerset.