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Sunday, 30 August 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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Palermo
By the stone cliff wall of Monte Pellegrino, there is the Sanctuary of Santa Rosa - a church and place of pilgrimage for the faithful to the relics of Saint Rosalie, one of the four patron saints of the city.
On 15th July 1624, probable relics of this 12th-century saint were discovered in a cave on this site ...
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Helsinki
Helsinki, together with the neighboring cities of Espoo, Vantaa and Kauniainen, make up the so-called Capital Regin.
The Capital Region, a metropolitan area, is considered Finland’s only metropolis. It extends over an ...
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Stuttgart
Since 1985, Stuttgart has been the seat of the International School.
It is one of fewer than 100 schools worldwide that offer all three International Baccalaureate programs - IB Primary Years, IB Middle Years, and IB Diploma.
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Helsinki
Finland’s rapid urbanization occurred later than in other European countries, only in the 1970s.
At that time, the population of the metropolitan area tripled. The city built a subway (1982, after 27 years of planning), which is the northernmost such system in the world.
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Hamburg
One of Hamburg’s biggest tourist attractions is the Planten un Blomen park.
Its history dates back to 1821 when a plane tree was planted there. The park was opened in 1930 and ...
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Los Angeles
As early as 1542, the area of southern California was recognized as part of the Spanish colonial empire.
On August 2, 1769, the Spanish officer Gaspar de Portola, who served as the first governor of Califo ...
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San Francisco
The tallest building in the city is the Salesforce Tower.
The skyscraper was completed in 2018 and has 61 floors and 326 meters in height. The building was de ...
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Chicago
Chicago is located on Lake Michigan, the third largest lake in the five Great Lakes of North America.
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Helsinki
The first skyscraper in Finland was built in Helsinki in 1931.
It was the 69.5-meter-high Torni Hotel, which was the tallest building in Finland at the time, until ...
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Potsdam
Many distinguished guests stayed in the palace next to the king.
Voltaire is said to have lived there. There is also a hypothesis that Bishop Ignacy Krasicki wrote t ...
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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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