Cities

During the Great Depression in San Francisco, not a single bank failed.

The first banks in the United States were established in Philadelphia.

San Gimignano’s downfall came in 1348, when the city was hit by an epidemic of plague (the Black Death).

The symbol of the Petropavlovsk Fortress, the entire city, and tsarist power, is the Saints Peter and Paul Cathedral, which is crowned by a 122-meter spire.

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.

Glastonbury is a small town in Great Britain, in Somerset.

Tradition says that the city was founded by Androclus, the son of the Athenian king Kodros.

English sculptor Katharine Maltwood publicly announced in 1929 that she had discovered enormous figures scattered across the lands of Somerset, north of Glastonbury.

Bratislava's location is unusual and peripheral, as it is situated in the southwestern part of the country.

The first traces of human activity in the area of today's city date back 12.000 years.