Cities

St. Petersburg is one of the world's major museum centers.

Saint John died in Ephesus, and Emperor Justinian, in the first half of the 6th century, ordered a basilica to be built over his grave, which is now located on the Ayasuluk hills, east of the temple of Artemis.

From the ancient Romans, the area was taken over by the Franks around the 4th century.

The city’s largest population in its entire history-2.25 million-was in 1916.

In Bremen, in the Schnoor district, there is a house considered the smallest in the country.

Bruges has a nearly 100-kilometer-long network of active canals, by which it is connected to Ostend, Zeebrugge (a port built by the Germans during World War I for U-boats), and Ghent.

Founded by the Phoenicians over 2700 years ago, the Port of Palermo is, along with the port of Messina, the main port of Sicily.

Money in the Trevi Fountain.

The Greater Cairo Area is the largest metropolitan area in Africa and the 6th largest in the world.

In late 2022 Shanghai will open the world’s largest indoor ski resort.