Cities

From 1934 to 1963, there was a famous maximum security prison on Alcatraz Island.

Helsinki’s neoclassical buildings have often been used by Hollywood filmmakers.

Burges is not located directly on the North Sea, it is an inland port connected by canals to Ostend and Zeebrugge, as well as to Ghent.

The Dubai metro is segregated by gender.

Stuttgart is home to six Fraunhofer universities (the Fraunhofer Society is a German research organization with 75 institutes spread throughout Germany) - this is the second-largest number of research institutions in Germany after Dresden.

The Al-Azhar Mosque is said to be the most renowned educational institution in Sunni Islam.

On Václavské náměstí in Olomouc is the Cathedral of St. Wenceslas.

Not far from the Finnish capitals is the 18th-century fortress of Suomenlinna, which is called the Gibraltar of the North.

The Column of Trajan is 39.83 meters high. It is an important city monument commemorating Emperor Trajan's victory over the Dacians.

Bratislava's location is unusual and peripheral, as it is situated in the southwestern part of the country.