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Situated on the Baltic Sea at the mouth of the Daugava River in north-central part of Latvia, which is the capital since 1918, Riga is the largest and most populous city of the Baltics, as well as being one of the most important economic, political and cultural region. The city, which currently has just under […]
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The city was founded, according to the most accepted version, the Norwegian browser Ingolfur Arnarson around the year 874. The name Reykjavik comes from the Scottish dialect and means “Bay of Smoke,” for the vapors of the springs. For many centuries it remained a small village, and when in 1786 the Danish king gave the […]
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On the birth of Prague you tell two tales: the first attributes its construction to the Princess Libuse, the second to the Jews expelled from Palestine in 70 AD. What is certain is that this point of easy ford of the Vltava River was inhabited since prehistoric times. The period of greatest development of the […]
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Located in the central-southern part of Montenegro, Podgorica is a city of nearly 170,000 people since 2006 the capital of the newly-born independent state of Montenegro. From the geographical point of view, Podgorica is situated in the fertile plain north of Lake Skadar, even at an altitude of 50 meters above sea level, in an […]
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Oslo, formerly also called Christiania and Kristiania, the capital of Norway. The city, which has 570,000 inhabitants, is situated in the southern part of the country and is included within the county of Oslo, whose boundaries correspond to those of the municipality. In the center is concentrated almost 12% of the national population, while the […]
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Located in the center of the island of Cyprus, Nicosia (Lefkosia in greek) today is a modern commercial and business center. The center of the city is its old area, surrounded by a Venetian sandstone wall with a moat and the heart-shaped bastions. The city shows tourists to its most distinctive within its walls, where […]
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Capital and major economic and cultural center of Russia, Moscow (in Russian: Moskwa) is one of the most fascinating cities in Europe, able to attract every year hundreds of thousands of tourists from all over the world. The center, which has just under 14,500,000 inhabitants, situated on the banks of the Moskva River in the […]
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Minsk, or more properly Mensk, is a metropolis of over 1,750,000 inhabitants in north-central part of Belarus, which is the capital since 1991. From an administrative standpoint, the city is also the capital of voblasc (region) and the seat of the Commonwealth of Independent States. Morphologically speaking, the center of Minsk is situated at an […]
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Madrid is an ancient city, it boasts an architectural heritage comparable to that of other European capitals and is not so fine to leave you speechless. Most of the city is modern, built in the nineteenth and twentieth century through the repetition of dormitory suburbs and skyscrapers certainly not rewarding those who drive into town […]
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Created as an intersection of major roads on the island, Londinium, as the Latin name, was already considered by Tacitus, a few decades after Christ, among the most important cities of Britain. In the Middle Ages, despite the proximity of two rival cities, Saint Albans (Verulamium) and Colchester (Camulodunum), London continued its development, and in […]
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