Cities

Copenhagen obtained city rights in 1254.

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

Philadelphia is a national cultural center.

In the 14th century, Rewal prospered as a trading town.

Ghent is "a city of three towers."

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.

Associated with the plague epidemic in Vienna is the legend of good Augustine.

Johannes Brahms and Felix Mendelssohn, two great composers of classical music, were born in Hamburg.

Cairo is a fast-developing city.

In 1867, San Francisco passed America's first "restrictive ugliness law."