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Monday, 13 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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Bremen
Bremen is a city very friendly to immigrants.
In 2015, all refugees who came to Bremen found help. The city has found accommodation for 2000 people, and the rest were taken in by the city's inhabitants.
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Madrid
Over 800,000 trees grow in Madrid.
Madrid is the city with the most trees and green spaces per capita in all of Europe. Unfortunately, ...
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Copenhagen
There is a wind farm at the city's waterfront that supplies 4 percent of the city with electricity.
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Bruges
One of the most important monuments in Bruges is the one commemorating the events from below Kortrijk, the Battle of the Golden Spurs.
It is a monument to the weaver Jan Breydel and the butcher Pieter de Coninck. It is located in the central square of the Grote Markt.
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Glastonbury
The greatest mystery of Glastonbury is the question of whether King Arthur's body was buried on the abbey grounds.
Despite the monks' declarations about the discovery of the remains of the king and his wife Guinever ...
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Florence
Florence was liberated by New Zealand, South African and British troops on August 4, 1944.
Allied soldiers who died liberating Florence are buried in cemeteries outside the city.
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Tallinn
Tallinn is the capital and largest city of Estonia.
It is located in the north of the country, on the shore of Tallinn Bay.The Tallinn Bay is a bay of t ...
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Tallinn
An annual film festival takes place in Tallinn - Tallinn Black Night Film Festival.
It has been organized since 1997 and is the only festival in Northern Europe, in the Baltic region, ...
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Munich
The city is home to the headquarters of the largest companies.
In addition to the previously mentioned BMW, Siemens AG, MAN AG, MTU Aero Engines AG, Rohde & Sc ...
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Cairo
On October 21st, 2007, the bust of Professor Kazimierz Michałowski was unveiled in the gardens of the Egyptian Museum.
He was a prominent Polish Egyptologist, the founder of the Polish school of Mediterranean archeology ...
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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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