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Sunday, 26 April 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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Glastonbury
The Irish king's son, Saint Indracht, died at Glastonbury.
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Bratislava
In 1465, King Matthias Corvinus, a comprehensively educated man, inspired by the ideas of the Renaissance and in contact with the first Italian scholars, founded a university in Bratislava (then Pozsony) - Universitas Istropolitana.
It was the first university founded in what is now Slovakia.
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Ghent
In 1932, the largest cinema in Belgium began operating in Ghent, screening sound films - the Capitole.
Ghent had its radio station in the 1930s, and Ghent University became the first university in the co ...
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Bratislava
City rights were granted to Bratislava in 1291.
It became a royal city, surrounded by the king's patronage and protectorate. This resulted in the ra ...
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Bruges
Another historic church of Bruges is the Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary, inside of which is a sculpture by Michelangelo.
The church was built between 1290 and 1549, and its distinctive feature is its 122.30-meter high bri ...
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Potsdam
It is situated on the Havel River, a tributary of the Elbe.
It borders Berlin in the southwest and is one of the most prosperous cities in its agglomeration with approximately 4.7 million inhabitants.
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Copenhagen
Copenhagen is one of the greenest cities on earth and plans to become carbon neutral by 2025.
Over the last 10 years, the city has managed to reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 1/3, mainly thanks to investments in photovoltaics and wind farms.
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Los Angeles
Racial tensions in the city led to riots in 1965 in Watts, a small L.A. neighborhood.
The riots broke out when a 21-year-old African-American man was stopped by police for drunk driving. ...
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Dubai
Dubai is one of the safest places in the world.
The United Arab Emirates is among the countries with the lowest crime rate in the world.
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Ghent
Ghent, along with six other cities, forms an agglomeration.
Among them, the largest are Sint-Amandsberg and Gentbrugge.
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24 facts about Bremen
24 facts about Bremen
A city of tolerance and opportunities
Bremen, a city on the Weser, is located a short distance from its mouth into the North Sea. Its hallmark and pride are the values it has been professi ...
19 facts about Hamburg
19 facts about Hamburg
Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg
This beautiful city with old buildings existed already in the early Middle Ages when it served as a center of Christianization. Its city port is one o ...
31 facts about Helsinki
31 facts about Helsinki
The northernmost urban area in the world
Helsinki is the capital and largest city of Finland, the third largest city in the Nordic countries. It is the northernmost capital of a European Unio ...
48 facts about Vienna
48 facts about Vienna
One of the greenest cities in the world
Vienna, the capital of Austria, is a city of imperial palaces, the Viennese waltz, Sacher cake, classical music, and New Year’s concerts by the Vienna ...
31 facts about Bruges
31 facts about Bruges
Cradle of Flemish painting
Bruges is a small Belgian city that, in the Middle Ages, was a commercial and financial powerhouse of this part of Europe. At the time, it was one of ...
21 facts about Palermo
21 facts about Palermo
A city founded by Phoenicians
Palermo is a city founded by the Phoenicians over 2700 years ago. Located in a valley that the Arabs called Conca d’Oro in the 9th century, it is surr ...
19 facts about Olomouc
19 facts about Olomouc
The historic capital of Moravia
Olomouc, located in the eastern part of the Czech Republic, is a beautiful, though not very popular, city. As the capital of Moravia, it has a rich hi ...
17 facts about San Gimignano
17 facts about San Gimignano
The Town of Fine Towers
San Gimignano is a charming town in the heart of Italian Tuscany, which mesmerizes with an unprecedented beauty, fascinating history, and unique chara ...
27 facts about Rome
27 facts about Rome
The Eternal City hides many fascinating secrets
The history of Rome has been continuous for 28 centuries, although it is known that the area was inhabited much earlier. Rome is one of the longest in ...
30 facts about Shanghai
30 facts about Shanghai
The Paris of the East
Shanghai is the most eclectic city in China. It combines various architectural styles and is known as the Chinese center of Art Deco. Developing at a ...
23 facts about Paris
23 facts about Paris
City of Light
Paris is very eagerly visited by tourists. It surprises with the number of monuments and architectural marvels from various historical periods. Hundre ...
17 facts about Madrid
17 facts about Madrid
The bear and the strawberry tree
The medieval city dates back to the times when the Moors lived in this area. Situated on the Meseta Central near the Manzanares River, it was an excel ...
16 facts about Cairo
16 facts about Cairo
The city of a thousand minarets
Settlements in the area around today’s Cairo existed over five thousand years ago. Over the years, the city’s surroundings passed from hand to hand—fr ...
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