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Friday, 13 November 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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Paris
The Louvre Museum is the most visited museum in the world.
Every year it attracts around 10 million visitors.
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Bruges
Anselm Adorno also engaged in diplomatic activities.
He visited many places in Europe and beyond. He also ended up in Jerusalem, where, after seeing the Basilica of the Holy Sepulcher, he decided to fund a similar one in Bruges.
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San Gimignano
San Gimignano’s downfall came in 1348, when the city was hit by an epidemic of plague (the Black Death).
The epidemic of the Black Death reached all of Europe at the time, and between 30 and 60 percent of ...
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Copenhagen
Many city residents ride bicycles.
Residents, entrepreneurs, and politicians alike choose this means of transport. It's hard to park a car in Copenhagen because the sidewalks are full of bicycles.
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Potsdam
Potsdam is the capital of the German state of Brandenburg and part of the Berlin/Brandenburg metropolitan region.
It has 183.154 inhabitants and is the most populous city in the region.
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Helsinki
The city has about 11.000 boat moorings.
It also gas more than 14.000 hectares of marine fishing waters adjacent to the capital region. There ...
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Ghent
Every year Ghent hosts one of the largest film festivals in Europe - Film Festival Gent.
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Florence
The Laurentian Library (Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana or BML) was built in the cloister of the Medici Basilica of San Lorenzo di Firenze.
The library was designed by Michelangelo and is an example of Mannerism. It contains approximately 1 ...
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Glastonbury
The Irish king's son, Saint Indracht, died at Glastonbury.
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Vienna
An interesting figure and probably the founder of one of the first cafes in Vienna was a Pole, Jerzy Franciszek Kulczycki of the Sas coat of arms, translator from Turkish, dragon of the Eastern Trade Company, diplomat, soldier of King John III Sobieski.
During the siege of Vienna in 1683, Kulczycki, disguised as an Ottoman soldier and singing Turkish s ...
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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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