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Wednesday, 4 March 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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Saint Petersburg
St. Petersburg's greatest architect of the 18th century was Bartolomeo Francesco Rastrelli, the son of an Italian sculptor.
His architecture delighted the tsars. The buildings he designed were monumental, but at the same tim ...
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Helsinki
Helsinki is the birthplace of many prominent personalities.
These include: Ragnar Granit-neurophysiologist, Nobel Prize winner; Aino Aalto-designer, architect; ...
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Florence
The city's main resource was the Arno River (mainly for the textile industry) and access to the Mediterranean Sea (international trade).
Another resource was the city's merchant community and its merchant banking skills, which gained par ...
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Bruges
It was a battle referred to as the “Battle of the Golden Spurs.”
The extent of the French defeat was evidenced by the 700 golden spurs found after the battle.
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Glastonbury
English sculptor Katharine Maltwood publicly announced in 1929 that she had discovered enormous figures scattered across the lands of Somerset, north of Glastonbury.
Bounded by the natural contours of rivers, paths, roads, hills, ditches, and embankments, these figu ...
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Saint Petersburg
In 1712, St. Petersburg officially became the capital of Russia and remained so until 1918.
The most important state institutions began to move to the new capital, and the Senate, which moved to St. Petersburg in 1721, proclaimed Tsar Peter the Great as Emperor of All-Russia.
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Florence
In the 17th century, the first meteorological station in the history of the city, and one of the first in the world, was established in Florence - Monastero degli Angeli.
It was based in the former church of Santa Maria degli Angeli in via Alfani. It acted on the orders ...
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Rome
Women in ancient Rome used to dye their hair.
They dyed their hair blond and red with goat fat and beech ash.
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San Gimignano
San Gimignano became a city of towers, also referred to as the “Manhattan of the Middle Ages” or the “Manhattan of Tuscany.”
Towers were built by the city’s wealthy residents from the 13th to 15th centuries. During this perio ...
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Olomouc
Olomouc has many historic townhouses and palaces.
One of these is the Hauenschild’s Palace, the Renaissance home of a wealthy bourgeois family (it has ...
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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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