:* San Francisco has a large celebration in the city's historic French Quarter in downtown.

The city's economic centre quickly moved west toward the Nile, away from the historic Islamic Cairo section and toward the contemporary, European-style areas built by Isma ' il.

The historic Chicago Cultural Center ( 1897 ), originally serving as the Chicago Public Library, now houses the city's Visitor Information Center, galleries and exhibit halls.

Several historic locations, including Moore Street, remain one of the city's oldest trading districts.

Though it is the largest area of the city by both physical size and population, it has often been regarded by Southside citizens as Lansing's most overlooked and forgotten area, as most of Lansing's attention in recent decades has been put into the revitalization of the city's historic core located mostly on small parts of both the East and Westsides.

The historic Nineveh is mentioned about 1800 BC as a centre of worship of Ishtar, whose cult was responsible for the city's early importance.

Although Pisa is known worldwide for its leaning tower ( the bell tower of the city's cathedral ), the city of over 88, 332 residents ( around 200, 000 with the metropolitan area ) contains more than 20 other historic churches, several palaces and various bridges across the River Arno.

The chosen flag has a white background with the city's seal in the middle, surrounded by twelve small red triangles that symbolize the twelve historic capitals of Armenia.

Many important historic buildings were rebuilt, including the Semper Opera House, the Zwinger Palace and a great many other historic buildings, although the city leaders chose to reconstruct large areas of the city in a " socialist modern " style, partly for economic reasons, but also to break away from the city's past as the royal capital of Saxony and a stronghold of the German bourgeoisie.

The urban renewal process, which includes the reconstruction of the area around the Neumarkt square on which the Frauenkirche is situated, will continue for many decades, but public and government interest remains high, and there are numerous large projects underway — both historic reconstructions and modern plans — that will continue the city's recent architectural renaissance.

Although there has been an increasing number of projects and propositions to restore some of the city's colonial buildings, the future of these historic edifices remains uncertain.

The city's architectural and historic interest, and its fast links to other towns and cities have led Winchester to become one of the most expensive and desirable areas of the country.

Many of the city's historic buildings are designed in the Baroque style.

The city's historic boulevards were originally designed by Horace Cleveland in 1889 to work with the parks to create a seamless flow of trees, grass and flowers throughout the city.

The city's passenger rail station is located at the West Virginia end of the historic railroad bridge across the Potomac River.

Freed slaves and their descendants created a thriving African-American business community, and the city's historic Jackson Ward became known as the " Wall Street of Black America.

The city's tourist attractions include the Galveston Schlitterbahn waterpark, Moody Gardens botanical park, the Ocean Star Offshore Drilling Rig & Museum, the Lone Star Flight Museum, Galveston Railroad Museum, a downtown neighborhood of historic buildings known as The Strand, many historical museums and mansions, and miles of beach front from the East End's Porretto Beach, Stewart Beach to the West End pocket parks. Also there is a pier-turned-amusement park that opened May 2012. it is called Galveston Island Historic Pleasure Pier.

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The city's main street is named Last Chance Gulch and lies close to the winding path of the original gulch through the historic downtown district.

Colfax Avenue cuts through Original Aurora, the city's historic core, and skirts the southern edge of downtown Denver.

These included the construction of new leisure parks and the renovation of the city's historic center, the establishment of the annual Siberian International Marathon, and of the annual City Days Festival.

Terrasa has a local newspaper, the Diari de Terrassa, that is published daily from Tuesday to Saturday, as well as several radio stations: Ràdio Terrassa / Cadena SER Vallès on 828 AM and 89. 4 FM, with more than 75 years of history behind it, being one of the pioneering radio stations in Catalonia and Spain ; the municipal radio ( Noucincpuntdos, 95. 2 FM ); and Radio Star de Terrassa, the city's cultural station, on 100. 5 FM, which was founded in 1984 and is one of the historic local radios of Catalonia.

According to the city's webpage, the first historic note about Słupsk comes from 1015 when ruler of Poland Bolesław I Chrobry took over the town, incorporating it into Polish state.

The city's total population is 117, 073 ( 1 January 2008 ), of which around 20, 000 live in the historic centre.

By the middle of the 19th century, industrialisation swept away most of the city's medieval rules of production and commerce, although the entirely corrupt remains of the city's mediæval constitution was kept in place ( compare the famous remarks of Georg Forster in his Ansichten vom Niederrhein ) until 1801, when Aachen became the " chef-lieu du département de la Roer " in Napoléon's First French Empire.

Aviron Bayonnais is the city's rugby union club, founded in 1904 and French champions three times, in 1913, 1934 and 1943.

It is said by some that Bayonne is the birthplace of mayonnaise, supposedly a corruption of Bayonnaise, the French adjective describing the city's people and produce.

The French army defeated the Hanoverian Army of Observation, leading to the city's occupation as part of the Invasion of Hanover.

Calvin was invited to lead a church of French refugees in Strasbourg by that city's leading reformers, Martin Bucer and Wolfgang Capito.

Like his immediate predecessors, he was devoted to France, and he demonstrated his French sympathies by refusing a solemn invitation to return to Rome from the city's people, as well as from the poet Petrarch.

At the same time, the French troops were winning in Spain, and took Barcelona from the city's defending forces under the command of Antoni de Villarroel.

Dispatched from Paris as the republican government's emissary, Léon Gambetta passed over the German lines in a balloon inflated with coal gas from the city's gasworks, and organized the recruitment of new French armies.

The Battle of Pavia ( 1525 ) marks a watershed in the city's fortunes, since by that time, the former cleavage between the supporters of the Pope and those of the Holy Roman Emperor had shifted to one between a French party ( allied with the Pope ) and a party supporting the Emperor and King of Spain Charles V. Thus during the Valois-Habsburg Italian Wars, Pavia was naturally on the Imperial ( and Spanish ) side.

It became home to an extremely diverse population of Albanians, Armenians, Azeris, Bulgarians, Crimean Tatars, Frenchmen, Germans ( including Mennonites ), Greeks, Italians, Jews, Poles, Romanians, Russians, Turks, Ukrainians, and traders representing many other nationalities ( hence numerous " ethnic " names on the city's map, for example Frantsuzky ( French ) and Italiansky ( Italian ) Boulevards, Gretcheskaya ( Greek ), Yevreyskaya ( Jewish ), Arnautskaya ( Albanian ) Streets ).

In 1797, several decades after the city's founding, Louis Philippe, later the King of France from 1830 to 1840, stayed in Wilkes-Barre while traveling to the French Asylum settlement.

Early in the French Revolution, the Paris militia, which played a prominent role in the storming of the Bastille, wore a cockade of blue and red, the city's traditional colours.

By 1700, one-fifth of the city's population was French speaking.

The city's industry for a long time was linked to the French tyre manufacturer Michelin, which created the radial tyre and grew up from Clermont-Ferrand to become a worldwide leader in its industry.

It is surrounded by guildhalls, the city's Town Hall, and the Breadhouse ( French: Maison du Roi, Dutch: Broodhuis ).

The Gatineau Municipal Council ( French: Le conseil municipal de Gatineau ) is the city's main governing body.

Pau is home to Section Paloise, the city's rugby union team, which plays in the second French division known as Pro D2.

Other languages in the city included Spanish, spoken by 10. 18 % of the city's residents, and French, spoken by 0. 42 %.

It features the signature V, four fleurs-de-lis, symbolizing the city's French heritage, its existence in four centuries: 18th, 19th, 20th, and 21st, since the city's establishment in 1732.

In 1873 the city's French Renaissance style Chase County courthouse was built ; at roughly the same time, the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway reached Cottonwood Falls area.

The city's name is pronounced differently from the French city of the same name:.

Originally settled by several English families, after the city's industrial revolution its population was redefined by the nationality of its immigrant occupants, predominantly Polish and French Canadian.