Cities

Palermo has at least two rings of city walls, many of which still survive today.

Chicago is home to one of the tallest skyscrapers in the world - Willis Tower until 2009 known as Sears Tower.

San Gimignano is the birthplace of the poet Folgore da San Gimignano, who lived from 1270 to 1332.

After German reunification in 1990, the state of Brandenburg was created and Potsdam became its capital.

Glastonbury is a small town in Great Britain, in Somerset.

Ephesus was originally an ancient Greek city.

On the Bremen market square, between the town hall and the merchants' building (Schütting), there is a medieval statue of the knight Roland, made famous by the French chivalric epic "The Song of Roland".

There is a wind farm at the city's waterfront that supplies 4 percent of the city with electricity.

Traditional feasts are held in one of the town hall halls, the upper town hall with soaring Gothic windows and an impressive collection of replicas of merchant ships.

In 1952, the city became the major economic, industrial, tourist, and publishing center that it is today.