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Saturday, 31 October 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
Stuttgart is the seat of a Protestant bishop (Protestant State Church in Württemberg) and one of the two co-seats of the bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Rottenburg-Stuttgart.
The Pentecostal Gospel Forum based in Stuttgart is the largest place of worship (megachurch) in Germany. It is also the seat of a large English-speaking church, the International Baptist Church.
Rome
Rome is home to more than 2,000 fountains.
Although some are large and monumental, such as the Trevi Fountain, most of Rome's fountains are called nasone (fontanella) - small nose-shaped taps designed for drinking.
Tallinn
Tallinn is visited by 4.3 million tourists every year.
Finns are frequent guests there - from June to October, on average, 20-40 thousand Finnish tourists come there.
Epheseus
In the second half of the 20th century, an Austrian archaeological mission cleaned up the ruins of St. John's Basilica and rebuilt the confession (the tomb of a saint, martyr or the vestibule leading to his tomb placed under the main altar, or the altar) of St. John.
Work recently carried out thanks to the support of a religious foundation from Lima (a city in the USA in Ohio) led to the reconstruction of some of the columns and walls of the basilica.
Saint Petersburg
The date of the city's founding is considered to be May 27, 1703 (May 16, 1703, according to the Julian calendar).
This date was immortalized on a stone slab specially prepared for the occasion, on which an inscript ...
Helsinki
Helsinki has one of Europe’s largest railroad hubs.
Trains run from it to all parts of Finland and Russia. The city is connected to the Allegro high-spe ...
Chicago
Hugh Hefner, Walt Disney, and Harrison Ford were born in Chicago.
Saint Petersburg
Already in the first half of the 18th century, St. Petersburg became one of the most beautiful cities in Europe.
At that time, such architectural structures as the Admiralty, the Twelve Colleges (today it houses S ...
Los Angeles
The area of the city is 1302 square kilometers.
The city is the center of the Los Angeles-Long Beach-Santa Ana agglomeration, which is inhabited by ...
Vienna
Vienna is home to the oldest university in the German-speaking are - the University of Vienna, founded on 12th March 1365.
The university was founded by Rudolf IV, and the modern organization of the university was introduce ...