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Monday, 15 June 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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Munich
The Munich area is very picturesque.
South of the city there are beautiful lakes such as Stamberg, Ammersee, Chiemesse, and Walchensee. T ...
Epheseus
The figure of Saint John the Evangelist is also associated with Ephesus, who, according to tradition, spent the last three years of his life there and wrote his Gospel there.
Saint John supposedly brought Jesus' mother, Mary, from Jerusalem to Ephesus after Christ's crucifix ...
Ghent
In the 13th century, the Lieve canal, 45 km long, was built in Ghent, and later, facing Antwerp, the Sasse Vaart canal.
Los Angeles
In 1969, California became the birthplace of the Internet.
The first ARPANET transmission was then made from the University of California in Los Angeles to the Stanford Research Institute in Menlo Park in San Francisco.
Bremen
One of the Bremen legends is associated with the existence of the Roland statue.
According to her, Bremen will be a free and independent city as long as Roland stands in the market ...
Bruges
The city’s name derives from the Old High German word bridge.
In historical documents, the name Bruges first appeared only in the 9th century. It was then that the first coins with the name Briggia appeared.
Epheseus
Ephesus is located in the west of Anatolia - a historical land in Turkey, 6 km from the Aegean Sea.
It is located between the cities of Izmir (formerly Smyrna) and Aydin.
Helsinki
Helsinki also has Europe’s largest sobering house.
Alcohol prices are among the high ones in Finland, and yet Europe’s largest sobering-up room has bee ...
Vienna
Due to the constant Turkish threat, the city’s fortifications began to expand in the mid-16th century.
These defensive walls were dismantled after Franz Joseph took power in Vienna and the Austro-Hungari ...
Philadelphia
American writer Edgar Allan Poe spent six very productive years in Philadelphia.
He lived there from 1838 to 1844 with his wife, Virginia Clemm Poe. Initially, he was editor of Burt ...