Cleveland’s architectural planning ideas have shown a progressiveness and vision that few other cities can match. One example is the 1903 Group Plan, which received considerable national acclaim. Many of…
On April 30, 1891, Aurora was founded as the town of Fletcher. The new community, one of many suburbs around Denver, covered four square miles of prairie between Yosemite Street…
Spaniard Alonso Alvarez de Pineda called the semitropical bay Corpus Christi, in Texas, on the day of the holy Feast of Corpus Christi in 1519. Orobio y Basterr was the…
The city is situated on the Bochum Land Ridge (Bochumer Landrücken), which is one of the Ruhrhöhen (highest heights) and separates the southern and northern coal regions of the Ruhr.…
The start of the 18th century saw the construction of the Caminho Novo (New Way) route, which connected Rio de Janeiro with the Minas Gerais gold rush region near Vila…
Ljubljana is the capital and most significant town of Slovenia. It is the country’s cultural, educational, economic, political, and administrative centre. Cankar Hall is the most prominent Slovenian cultural and…
Despite its status as a German-Brazilian city, Joinville has French roots: the Colônia Dona Francisca was selected as the dowry to be presented to the future husband of Princess Francisca…
A Coruña is a metropolis and municipality of Galicia, Spain. The metropolis is the web website online of the Roman Tower of Hercules, a lighthouse which has been in non-stop…
Fukuoka was once the home of the powerful daimyo of Chikuzen Province, and it played a significant role in Japan’s medieval history. During the Boshin War of 1868, the district’s…
Even though towns existed in Roman times, Liège was first mentioned in 558, when it was known as Vicus Leudicus. Saint-Lambert of Maastricht is credited with completing the Christianization of…
The notion of establishing a new state capital had been discussed in Goiás from its inception. D. Marcos de Noronha proposed establishing the state capital in the municipality of Pirenópolis…
The city’s official name is a contraction of the (archaic) Dutch des Hertogen bosch — “the duke’s forest.” Henry I of Brabant was the duke in question, and his family…
