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Thursday, 14 May 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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Ghent
Legends are associated with the figure of Amand, telling of his efforts to convert the people of Ghent and the surrounding area to Christianity.
Amand arrived in Ghent by boat, but when he wanted to go ashore from it, the residents threw him int ...
Rome
The Colosseum was a gift to the people of Rome.
Its construction was begun by Emperor Vespasian and completed by Titus Flavius. During the opening o ...
San Gimignano
Since the 10th century, San Gimignano was governed by the bishops of Volterra (a city in the province of Pisa), although they never lived in the city itself.
In the Middle Ages and during the Renaissance, Catholic pilgrims heading to Rome and the Vatican sto ...
Florence
Florence has numerous museums and art galleries that house some of the most important works of art in the world.
The city is one of the best-preserved Renaissance centers of art and architecture in the world, char ...
Saint Petersburg
The unofficial, fondling, colloquial name of the city is Piter.
It was used as early as the 19th century, in Soviet times and now.
Potsdam
In 1838, the first Potsdam-Berlin railway line in Prussia was opened.
Since 1911, Potsdam had an airship port. The Babelsberg film studio, the first in Germany and the world, was also founded in the Babelsberg district.
Kaliningrad
Królewiec was one of the centers of Polish printing (along with Wrocław and Krakow).
In the years 1543-1552, more books in Polish were published in Królewiec and Ełk than in the entire ...
Dubai
The UAE government does not allow any form of naturalization of foreigners.
Vienna
In the 16th century, Vienna was a multinational city.
It was even compared to the Tower of Babel (Wolfgang Schmeltzl, playwright), for Greek, Latin, Frenc ...
Madrid
Sobrino de Botin, according to the Guinness World Records, the oldest restaurant in the world, is located in Madrid.
Established by a Frenchman Jean Botin and his wife, who fell in love with the local cuisine while tr ...