From proud pool-owners to perpetual hosts and handymen was a short step -- no more than the change from city clothes to trunks.

It hosts the city archive.

In the South of the city you can find Aachen's biggest tennis club " TC Grün Weiss ", which hosts the famous ATP Tournament once a year.

In addition to a number of other international organizations and institutions, such as the IUCN Environmental Law Center ( IUCN ELC ), the city currently hosts 18 United Nations institutions.

At present, the capital city of N ' Djamena hosts 17 embassies, including those of the United States, Egypt, Algeria, Iraq, Sudan, Germany, the Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Nigeria, Cameroon, and the European Union.

The city hosts several of Scotland's galleries and organisations dedicated to contemporary visual art.

The city also hosts an annual track and field meet at the Flanders Sports Arena: the Indoor Flanders meeting.

Karachi hosts the largest middle class stratum of the country and is the most liberal city in Pakistan.

Malmö hosts many other different types of contests and special events in Entré, inside the city centre.

The coastal plain hosts numerous freshwater lakes in the eastern, western and northern parts of the city.

The central peninsula on the east side of the harbour, and the area immediately opposite on the west side, hosts the site of the original city from the merger of Parrtown and Carleton.

West of Lancaster, the city hosts its second largest park, and one of the largest coastal urban parks in the country.

* July & August: The city hosts a series of weekly firework displays by the sea front in Scheveningen, as part of an international fireworks festival and competition.

The city hosts, among others events, the international theatre festival, " Kontakt ", annually in May

The city hosts Ca ' Foscari University of Venice founded in 1868, Iuav University of Venice founded in 1926 and Venice International University an international research center founded in 1995 located on the island of San Servolo.

Built between 1386 and 1577, it hosts the world's largest collection of marble statues and has a widely visible golden Madonna statue on top of the spire, nicknamed by the people of Milan as Madunina ( the little Madonna ), that became one of the symbols of the city.

The city hosts a large Chinese community since the 1920s.

The city hosts some of the best electronic music clubs in Europe such as Kristal Glam Club and Studio Martin.

The Romanian Athaeneum Society hosts the George Enescu Festival at various locations throughout the city in September every two years ( odd years ).

Every year, with cooperation from the city, Lewis-Clark State College hosts the Avista NAIA World Series in May, and the Lewiston Round Up in September.

The city annually hosts the Ravenna Festival, one of Italy's prominent classical music gatherings.

Events such as the Thessaloniki International Trade Fair and the Thessaloniki International Film Festival are held annually, while the city also hosts the largest bi-annual meeting of the Greek diaspora.

The city hosts some of the most important universities of the country:

The city hosts several cathedrals belonging to the colonial times, such as the San Francisco Cathedral and the Metropolitan Cathedral, this last one located on Murillo Square, which is also home of the political and administrative power of the country.

The annual French Festival takes place throughout Acapulco city and offers a multitude of events that cement cultural links between Mexico and France.

The city is home to the Atlanta Dogwood Festival, an annual arts and crafts festival held one weekend during early April, when the native dogwoods are in bloom.

The city has been ranked as high as the second-best place to live in the United States by Money Magazine's annual list, but has not been ranked in the top 100 since 2006.

The annual summer festival, the Taste of Chicago in Grant Park, highlights food in the city with many local restaurants taking part.

Dublin records the least amount of rainfall in Ireland, with the average annual precipitation in the city centre being.

This vision includes establishing a University College to foster both in-depth and wide-interest, society-interest driven education for upcoming engineers ; establishing a combined Graduate School to manage the graduate programs ; an increase of the student body by 50 percent ; a 50 percent increase in the number of annual Ph. D graduations ; an increase of knowledge valorisation to a campus-wide score of 4. 2 ; increasing the international position of the university to within the top-100 universities ; and increasing the embedding of the university within the city and the Brainport region by transforming the campus into a high-grade science park with laboratories, housing facilities for 700 students and researchers and supporting facilities.

With a population of 522, 686 ( 31 December 2010 ) the city is a major centre of northern Germany, known for hosting annual commercial trade fairs such as the Hanover Fair and the CeBIT.

Since 1933, Jacksonville has been the site of the annual Florida vs. Georgia Football Classic, a major college football rivalry game between the University of Florida Gators and the University of Georgia Bulldogs, and since 1946, the city has hosted the Gator Bowl, one of the oldest annual college football bowl games.

His release was eventually negotiated, in return for a ransom of 400, 000 livres tournois ( at the time France's annual revenue was only about 1, 250, 000 livres tournois ), and the surrender of the city of Damietta.

* The annual prize for the best Politics student in Liverpool Hope University in the UK is called the Minerva Prize, both because of the association with wisdom and knowledge and because there is a statue of Minerva on the dome of Liverpool Town Hall, the seat of local politics in the city.

Abuja, Nigeria's capital city found in central Nigeria, has a temperature range of to, and an annual rainfall of about with a single rainfall maxima in September.

Perhaps the most important cultural event in Poznań is the annual Malta theatre festival, which takes place at many city venues usually in late June and early July.

* The second Saturday of every October amateur radio enthusiasts ( ham radio operators ) come to the city in large numbers to attend the annual Paris Texas Hamfest.

Perth is a particularly sunny city for a Mediterranean climate, with an average of 8. 8 hours of sunshine per day, which equates to around 3200 hours of annual sunshine.

The annual Berlin Marathon, which takes place in the last weekend of September, was first held in 1974 but due to the division of the city was confined to West Berlin up till and including 1989.

With an annual bike race on city streets and the state's only velodrome, Redmond is also known as " the bicycle capital of the Northwest ".

The city averages in January and in July, for an annual mean of.

The small town of Shady Cove, Oregon is home to the annual Spam Parade and Festival, with the city allocating $ 1500 for it.

The city experiences a humid subtropical climate ( Köppen Cfa ) with an annual average temperature of.

Recently there have been moves to restore the place of Vodun in national society, such as an annual International Vodun Conference held in the city of Ouidah in Benin that has been held since 1991.

* March 16 – Bucharest allows Jews to settle in the city in exchange for an annual tax of 16 guilders.

* In the Chinese capital of Chang ' an, for the annual Lantern Festival of this year, recently abdicated Emperor Ruizong of Tang erects an enormous lantern wheel at a city gate, with a recorded height of 200 ft.