Cities

Vienna has the largest public park in central Europe and one of the largest in the world, the Wiener Prater.

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

In the second half of the 18th century, the area around the city was entirely inhabited by Indians, mainly from the Illinois tribe.

San Francisco is the only city in the world where a cable tram system still operates today.

Helsinki covers an area of 715 square kilometers.

On April 15, 1956, the Chicago television station, NBC5 Chicago/WMAQ was the first in the world to broadcast a color program.

Ghent is located in the northwestern part of Belgium, in Flanders - a former part of the Netherlands.

The typical tree in Helsinki is the common maple (Acer platanoides).

In the 6th century BC, the last king of Lydia, Croesus (his name is synonymous with the rich man of antiquity) built a temple to Artemis in Ephesus.

Munich was the cradle of Nazism. In 1919, the German Workers' Party was founded in the Munich hotel "Fürstenfelder Hof", which was transformed into the NSDAP by Adolf Hitler on February 24, 1920.