Cities

Saturday, 29 August 2026

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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Florence

Florence has numerous museums and art galleries that house some of the most important works of art in the world.

The city is one of the best-preserved Renaissance centers of art and architecture in the world, char ...

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Olomouc

Olomouc’s Upper Square is also home to the Gothic Town Hall, a historic building that was the former seat of the city government.

It was built in the 14th century and expanded in the 15th century. The most valuable interior monume ...

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Helsinki

Helsinki has close historical ties with Tallinn, Stockholm and St. Petersburg.

It is located 80 kilometers north of Tallinn in Estonia, 400 kilometers east of Stockholm in Sweden, and 300 kilometers west of St. Petersburg in Russia.

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Munich

Cyclists account for 18% of street traffic and 80% of the city's inhabitants own a bicycle.

The city is the leader in the share of this means of transport among the largest German cities. Ther ...

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Shanghai

Its official city flower is White Yulan.

It belongs to the genus magnolia, native to China. It grows in the Yangtze River basin.

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Paris

The Louvre is known for its grand collection of top world-famous works of art, the most prestigious being the Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci.

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Tallinn

Due to its latitude, Tallinn has 19 hours of daylight in summer, while in winter it only has 6 hours.

Winters in Tallinn are very cold and dark with little rainfall, spring is cool and dry. Summer is mo ...

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Madrid

The official seat of the Spanish monarch and royal family is located on the outskirts of Madrid.

The Palacio de la Zarzuela was put into use in 1635. It was built by order of Philip IV Habsburg, in ...

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Los Angeles

The most common plant communities in the Los Angeles area are coastal sagebrush, chaparral, and coastal forests.

Chaparral is an evergreen, thicket plant formation that is a characteristic component of sclerophyll ...

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Vienna

In the 16th century, Vienna was a multinational city.

It was even compared to the Tower of Babel (Wolfgang Schmeltzl, playwright), for Greek, Latin, Frenc ...

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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 ...