Cities

Helsinki has a humid continental climate, similar to that on the coast of Hokkaido or Nova Scotia (one of Canada’s thirteen provinces).

There is a wind farm at the city's waterfront that supplies 4 percent of the city with electricity.

In the 20th century, Bremen, a liberal and socially democratic city, lost its autonomy under Hitler's rule.

Copenhagen has 5 partner cities: Paris, Prague, Reykjavík, Berlin and Marseille.

The Egyptian Museum is home to about 160,000 exhibits.

There are still vineyards in Stuttgart, less than 500 m from the main station.

Kaliningrad has one of the oldest zoos in modern Russia.

Regardless of the social changes, St. Petersburg was developing all the time.

Bruges of the 15th century was a place where many artists, bankers, and other prominent personalities from all over Europe gathered.

This period of wonderful development of Ephesus ended during the so-called Ephesus Vespers - the massacre of the Romans and Italic peoples in Asia Minor, which took place around 88 BC.