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Modern cities are extremely versatile and can be described from different perspectives and datasets, from census data to Foursquare data [1]. In this preliminary work, our main focus is to exploit Wikipedia and Wikidata in order to gain understanding on the spatial and temporal aspects of cultural activity in cities. We adopt an historical perspective and aim at characterising the cultural activity of a city by its cultural personalities. Given a neighbourhood, who were the important poets, mathematicians or architects associated to it? Answering such questions is certainly of interest to tourists and inhabitants, in order to comprehend better their cultural heritage. From a more global perspective, such data would allow to understand the cultural organisation of cities, and its possible segregation into different types of cultural activity. For this purpose, we are currently building a network between places and famous people in …