Cities

Thursday, 7 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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Rome
Piazza Navona is a square built in the late 15th century on the ruins of the Stadium of Domitian.
Originally a municipal market, Piazza Navona began to be transformed into the representative square we know today during the pontificate of Innocent X between 1644 and 1655.
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Vienna
Vienna is home to the oldest university in the German-speaking are - the University of Vienna, founded on 12th March 1365.
The university was founded by Rudolf IV, and the modern organization of the university was introduce ...
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Rome
Rome has 2 airports (Ciampino, Fiumicino). There is also a large seaport (Port Civitavecchia, also known as Port of Rome) near the city.
The most popular airport in Rome is Leonardo da Vinci Rome-Fiumicino.Before the outbreak of the COV ...
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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 ...
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Helsinki
Helsinki also has Europe’s largest sobering house.
Alcohol prices are among the high ones in Finland, and yet Europe’s largest sobering-up room has bee ...
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Tallinn
The length of Tallinn's coast is 46 kilometers.
It includes three larger peninsulas: Kopli, Paljassaare and Kakumäe. The city has many public beaches, including Pirita, Stroomi, Kakumäe, Harku and Pikakari.
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Hamburg
At the beginning of their career, the Beatles often played in Hamburg.
In honor of the band, a square called Beatles-Platz was created at the intersection of Reeperbahn an ...
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Helsinki
The city has about 11.000 boat moorings.
It also gas more than 14.000 hectares of marine fishing waters adjacent to the capital region. There ...
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Epheseus
The city had a convenient location that provided opportunities for its development.
Situated at the mouth of the river, it developed as a port city and an important center of trade.
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Ghent
Ghent is located in the northwestern part of Belgium, in Flanders - a former part of the Netherlands.
It is the capital of East Flanders, a province in the Flemish region (one of Belgium's three federal regions).
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24 facts about Bremen
24 facts about Bremen
A city of tolerance and opportunities
Bremen, a city on the Weser, is located a short distance from its mouth into the North Sea. Its hallmark and pride are the values it has been professi ...
19 facts about Hamburg
19 facts about Hamburg
Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg
This beautiful city with old buildings existed already in the early Middle Ages when it served as a center of Christianization. Its city port is one o ...
31 facts about Helsinki
31 facts about Helsinki
The northernmost urban area in the world
Helsinki is the capital and largest city of Finland, the third largest city in the Nordic countries. It is the northernmost capital of a European Unio ...
48 facts about Vienna
48 facts about Vienna
One of the greenest cities in the world
Vienna, the capital of Austria, is a city of imperial palaces, the Viennese waltz, Sacher cake, classical music, and New Year’s concerts by the Vienna ...
31 facts about Bruges
31 facts about Bruges
Cradle of Flemish painting
Bruges is a small Belgian city that, in the Middle Ages, was a commercial and financial powerhouse of this part of Europe. At the time, it was one of ...
21 facts about Palermo
21 facts about Palermo
A city founded by Phoenicians
Palermo is a city founded by the Phoenicians over 2700 years ago. Located in a valley that the Arabs called Conca d’Oro in the 9th century, it is surr ...
19 facts about Olomouc
19 facts about Olomouc
The historic capital of Moravia
Olomouc, located in the eastern part of the Czech Republic, is a beautiful, though not very popular, city. As the capital of Moravia, it has a rich hi ...
17 facts about San Gimignano
17 facts about San Gimignano
The Town of Fine Towers
San Gimignano is a charming town in the heart of Italian Tuscany, which mesmerizes with an unprecedented beauty, fascinating history, and unique chara ...
27 facts about Rome
27 facts about Rome
The Eternal City hides many fascinating secrets
The history of Rome has been continuous for 28 centuries, although it is known that the area was inhabited much earlier. Rome is one of the longest in ...
30 facts about Shanghai
30 facts about Shanghai
The Paris of the East
Shanghai is the most eclectic city in China. It combines various architectural styles and is known as the Chinese center of Art Deco. Developing at a ...
23 facts about Paris
23 facts about Paris
City of Light
Paris is very eagerly visited by tourists. It surprises with the number of monuments and architectural marvels from various historical periods. Hundre ...
17 facts about Madrid
17 facts about Madrid
The bear and the strawberry tree
The medieval city dates back to the times when the Moors lived in this area. Situated on the Meseta Central near the Manzanares River, it was an excel ...
16 facts about Cairo
16 facts about Cairo
The city of a thousand minarets
Settlements in the area around today’s Cairo existed over five thousand years ago. Over the years, the city’s surroundings passed from hand to hand—fr ...
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