Cities

The first modern trade unions in Belgium were established in Ghent.

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 city has the only urban rack railway in Germany.

Originally, Paris was called Lutetia and was a Roman settlement.

At the beginning of the 14th century, King Philip the Beautiful of France entered Flanders and demanded a high contribution from the country.

Drinking water in Helsinki is of excellent quality.

Vienna is home to one of the two largest teaching hospitals in the world-the Allhemeines Krankenhaus der Stadt Wien.

The origins of Stuttgart date back to the 10th century.

The first televised presidential debate between John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon was filmed in the Chicago CBS studio.

Helsinki is nicknamed the “White City of the North.”