Cities

Kaliningrad has one of the oldest zoos in modern Russia.

San Gimignano is a walled medieval town in the province of Siena in Tuscany in north-central Italy.

The city's greatest prosperity occurred in the 18th century, during the reign of Maria Theresa Habsburg.

It was a battle referred to as the “Battle of the Golden Spurs.”

Practical power in the city rested in the hands of about 40 of the wealthiest families, whose members sat on the city council.

There is a tower on Glastonbury Hill, which is the remains of a church that once stood here.

Eating, drinking, and throwing gum are not allowed on Dubai's trains, and people doing it face fines.

The mermaid statue in Copenhagen has not had an easy life. She was repeatedly covered with graffiti, lost an arm and her head twice, was blown up, and had a sex toy attached to her body.

The reign of the Norman dynasty ended in 1194 with the childless death of William II, grandson of Roger II.

In the 13th and 14th centuries, the city was described as one of the “cradles of European capitalism.”