Cities

In 1852, the Czech-German priest and missionary Johannes Nepomucene Neumann was ordained Bishop of Philadelphia.

The city lies in a valley formed by the Papireto, Kemoni, and Oreto rivers.

The one-story palace built in the gardens was intended to be only a summer residence, for the private use of the king and his guests.

As early as the beginning of the 13th century, the city belonged to the Hanseatic League (an association of Northern European trading cities from the Middle Ages and the beginning of the modern era).

The history of Bremen is 1200 years old.

The first excavations in Ephesus began in the second half of the 19th century.

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 16th and 17th centuries, attacks on Vienna by the Turks were repulsed twice, also with the help of Poland.

The city has a 41-kilometer stretch of Lake Michigan waterfront, with as many as 25 beaches.

American writer Edgar Allan Poe spent six very productive years in Philadelphia.