Something interesting about your city.

[velias]

Just say something about the place you live in.

I'll start: We have the oldest secular and statal university in the world.

[Louisistan]

- The only pope ever to be elected on German soil was elected here
- Three popes were removed from office here
- Two Czech reformers were burned at the stake here

-> And all in a period of 4 years.

[Shy Guy]

- We have at least 6 grade schools here, we have a population of 20,000...
- They wanted to build a indoors skiing area like that one in Dubai but it was never built, money for nothing.

[Klopstock]

We've had consecutive rain storms for two weeks now.

[Louisistan]

- The only reason you can't see over the lake from Konstanz (where I live) to Bregenz (the other end of Lake Constance) on a clear day is the roundness of the earth.

[velias]

Mine has an alternative name (Partenope) derivated from the siren who apparently founded it.
Oh, it was the capitol of a kingdom for five centuries.

[Sheynat]

The US states of Ohio and Michigan came extremely close to fighting a war over us. The President had to intervene. Ohio got Toledo, which is an important port city, but Michigan got the Upper Peninsula, which turned out to have large deposits of copper and iron. So who lost? Wisconsin.

[Klopstock]

We have Facebook here.

[Louisistan]

Every Saturday the Swiss clog up the streets with cars, because some things can be bought much cheaper here (plus they get the VAT back).