Cities

It took 120 years to build St. Peter's Basilica.

Drinking water is obtained by desalinating seawater.

Alcohol in Dubai can only be drunk by people who are at least 21 years old.

The most famous festival in northern Germany - Hamburg Dom - takes place in the city three times a year.

In the early 16th century, when the Zwin Canal, which was the “window to the world,” the source of the city’s power, was silted up, the city began to lose its commercial importance.

Around 981-990, Olomouc was captured by Mieszko I.

Tourism in Florence is by far the most important of all industries, although manufacturing and trade are also very important.

Bratislava is the capital and largest city in Slovakia in terms of area and population.

Near St. Petersburg are numerous tourist and recreational destinations with park and palace complexes of former Russian tsars: Tsarskoye Selo, Peterhof, Pavlovsk, Zelenogorsk, and Gatchina.

The greatest mystery of Glastonbury is the question of whether King Arthur's body was buried on the abbey grounds.