Szeged has beautiful buildings and wide avenues. This is mainly due to the great flood of 1879, which literally wiped away the whole town (only 265 of the 5723 houses remained and 165 people died). Emperor Franz Joseph visited the town and promised that "Szeged will be more beautiful than it used to be". He kept his promise. During the next years a new, modern city emerged from the ruins, with palaces and wide streets. After the First World War Hungary lost its southern territories to Serbia, as a result Szeged became a city close to the border, and its importance
Metropolitan City of Naples capital city. Due to the presence of Vesuvius and Phlegraean Fields, the city is vulnerable to seismic and volcanic activity. The city is 96th out of 110 Italian provinces and metropolitan cities by landmass, with an area (1,171 km² including islands) that is smaller than the core "comune" of Rome (1,287 km²). Naples is nevertheless Italy's 3rd largest city by population, making it one of the most densely populated areas in Europe; the metropolitan region also includes the municipality of Casavatore, the highest-density municipality in Italy (at 12,000 inhabitants/km²). While it contains more than half of Campania's population, it only