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Saturday, 12 September 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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Philadelphia
Philadelphia is a national cultural center.
It is home to sixty-seven national monuments, including Independence Hall, and has more outdoor scul ...
Los Angeles
During World War II, Los Angeles was a major center for war production such as shipbuilding and aerospace.
L.A. area was home to six of the nation's major aircraft manufacturers (Douglas Aircraft Company, Hu ...
Vienna
The first completed building on the Ring was the Vienna State Opera.
The opera house opened on 25th May 1869, with a production of Mozart’s opera “Don Giovanni.”
Hamburg
On the section of the Elbe between Hamburg and the North Sea, in the town of Wedel, lies the Willkomm-Höft, the welcome point for ships arriving or leaving the port of Hamburg.
Ships passing through this point are greeted by the playing of the national anthem of the country in ...
Hamburg
Miniatur Wunderland is the world’s largest miniature railway located in the Speicherstadt area of Hamburg.
There you can admire the world on a miniature scale with recreated regions such as the Harz Mountain ...
Bruges
Bruges is located in northwestern Belgium.
It is the Flemish Region, also often referred to as Flanders, one of Belgium’s three federal regions ...
Potsdam
In August 1945, the Big Three conference ending World War II was held in Potsdam.
It was a conference of three heads of government: the Soviet Union (Joseph Stalin), the United State ...
Helsinki
Finnish and Swedish are the official languages in Helsinki.
77.1 percent of citizens speak Finnish as their mother tongue, and 5.6 percent speak Swedish. The re ...
Ghent
In the mid-18th century, under Empress Maria Theresa, Ghent achieved the status of Belgium's largest city.
Sugar mills and the first real factories not related to the cloth industry appeared in the city. A new opera house in Kouter Square, founded by industrialists, opened in 1737.
San Gimignano
Franco Zeffirelli used San Gimignano as Assisi in his films.
In 1972 he made a biographical film about St. Francis of Assisi - “Brother Sun, Sister Moon.” Most of the scenes for the film were shot in San Gimignano.