Vaduz is the capital of Liechtenstein and has about... 5400 citizens. It isn't the largest city of this tiny country, as Schann is less known, and has about 580 people more. The whole of Liechtenstein has only a little over 35 000 citizens. Talk about a country the size of a town. And not a very large one.
You want to visit an unusual museum in Florence? The simplest choice is surely the Museo Salvatore Ferragamo, a museum dedicated to... shoes. There are over 10 000 pairs in it's collections, ranging from very old ones to unusual and even strange designs, which one could never wear.
The symbol and main tourist attraction of the city of Seattle is the Space Needle, an impressive and futuristic observation tower, a project signed by Edward E. Carlson and put together in 1962, for the World's Fair. It took only 400 days for the contruction to be completed, an impressive achievement regarding the complexity of the project, and since has been the most popular landmark. It is 184 meters high and has no less that 25 lightning rods, more that useful considering the height.
How did Rio de Janeiro receive it's name? According to local legend the Guanabara Bay - near which the city is situated - was discovered in 1502 by Gaspar de Lemos, a Portuguese explorer who had given it the name of Rio, thinking it was a river. And since it was the month of January, the full name was Rio de Janeiro, the January River. Pure and simple. Maybe it's just a story, as several historians and researchers have since said that an experienced explorer could not have made such a mistake. Still the name stuck, and the story remains.
The official full name of Buenos Aires, adopted in 1580 was Ciudad de la Santisima Trinidad y Puerto de Santa Maria de Buenos Aires. Fortunatelly it was later shortened to it's current form, otherwise...
The oldest amusement park in Sweden is the Grona Lund in Stockholm. Opened in 1883 on the grounds of a former garden, it is still in used and there are several rides which are almost a century old.
