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2221, 3388 FRANCE (Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes) - Chartreuse Mountains
2221Posted on 16.01.2016, 24.01.2020Located in southeastern France, the Chartreuse Mountains rises between Grenoble (south), Chambéry (north), Voiron and Saint-Laurent-du-Pont (west) and Grésivaudan...
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0019, 0071, 0759, 0867, 2364, 2430, 3441 SINGAPORE - The Downtown Core
2364 The Downtown Core of Singapore - Marina Bay seen from the South, with Marina Bay Sands on the rightThe Downtown Core of Singapore, which surrounds the mouth of the Singapore River and southeastern...
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3442 ROMANIA (Maramureş) - Life in the countryside
In recent years, I have met more and more people, both in social networks and in reality, who claim to envy those living in the country, in the bosom of nature. For the overwhelming majority of them,...
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3444 UNITED STATES (California) - Big Sur Coast Highway
Big Sur Coast Highway is a section of California State Route 1 that is widely considered to be one of the most scenic driving routes in the United States, if not the world. It was the first California...
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3408, 3417, 3445 SPAIN (Community of Madrid) - Royal Palace of Madrid
3408 Royal Palace of Madrid and Almudena CathedralLocated on Bailén Street, in the western part of downtown Madrid, east of the Manzanares River, the Royal Palace of Madrid is the official residence of...
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3446 RUSSIA (Saint Petersburg) - Postcrossing Meetup, Saint Petersburg, 19...
This postcard was made on the occasion of the postcrossing meeting that took place on February 19, 2020 in Saint Petersburg. The organizers chose as image the Water Supply Tower, one of the oldest...
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0071, 3447 SINGAPORE - Fullerton Hotel and Cavenagh Bridge
3447 Fullerton Hotel in broad daylightNamed after Robert Fullerton, the first Governor of the Straits Settlements (1826–1829), the Fullerton Hotel, whose the northern end covers the site of Fort...
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3448 UNITED STATES (Maryland) - Chesapeake Bay Bridge
The Chesapeake Bay Bridge is a major dual-span bridge spanning the Chesapeake Bay, and connecting the state's rural Eastern Shore region with the urban Western Shore. The original span, opened in 1952...
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3450 ETHIOPIA (Amhara) - Tomb of Adam - part of Rock-Hewn Churches, Lalibela...
Impressive in its simplicity, the Tomb of Adam is a huge square block of stone stands in a deep trench in front of the western face of Biete Golgotha Mikael (House of Golgotha Mikael). The block has...
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3451 NEW ZEALAND (North Island) - Cape Egmont Lighthouse and Mount Taranaki
This lighthouse was built in London in 1864. A year later, the cast-iron segments were shipped to New Zealand and assembled on Mana Island, north of Wellington, near Cook Strait. Because it was...
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3452 FRANCE (Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur) - Les Baux-de-Provence
3452 View of Les Baux-de-Provence and its castle from the northwest.Les Baux-de-Provence is a commune in Southern France, which has a spectacular position in the Alpilles mountains, set atop a rocky...
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3453 GERMANY (Saxony) - Elbe Sandstone Mountains
3453 Elbe Sandstone Mountains - The Bastei bridge in Saxon SwitzerlandThe Elbe Sandstone Mountains is a mountain range straddling the border between Saxony in southeastern Germany and the North...
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3454 BELARUS (Vitebsk) - The Assumpton Cathedral in Vitebsk
3454 The Assumpton Cathedral in VitebskBuilt in a picturesque place, on the high bank of the Western Dvina River, the Assumption Cathedral is one of the outstanding monuments of the architecture of...
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3455 GERMANY (Hamburg) - Rickmer Rickmers
Rickmer Rickmers is a three masted barque permanently moored as a museum ship in Hamburg, near the Cap San Diego steamer, also a museum ship. After almost 90 years of sailing the seven seas, the ship...
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3456 RUSSIA (Moskow Oblast) - Gorki Leninskiye
3456 Gorki LeninskiyeLocated 10 kilometers south of Moscow city limits, Gorki Leninskiye (meaning "Lenin's Gorki") is placed on a high bank of the River Turovka close to where it flows into the River...
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3457 UNITED KINGDOM (Cayman Islands) - George Town
With a population of 40,200, George Town, situated on Grand Cayman, is not only the capital of the Cayman Islands, but also the largest city (by population) of all the British Overseas Territories, and...
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3458 SINGAPORE (Central Region) - Boat Quay on Singapore River
3458 Boat Quay on Singapore River with OCBC Centre in backgroundThe Singapore River is approximately 3.2 kilometers long, runs parallel to Alexandra Road, through Singapore's central business district,...
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3459 SLOVENIA (Slovene Littoral) - The Piran salt pans
3459 A salt-pan family in a traditional house in Piranduring salt harvesting in summer.Piran, considered by some the most beautiful town on the Slovenian coast, grew with the help of salt. The salt...
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3460 SINGAPORE (Central Region) - Chinatown
3460 Old shop houses in the heart of Chinatown and towering skyscrapersin the central business district at the background.Chinese Singaporeans constituted 76.2% of the country's citizens, making them...
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3461 BRAZIL (Pernambuco) - Brazilian Atlantic Islands: Fernando de Noronha...
3461 Fernando de Noronha island.Of indescribable beauty, the Fernando de Noronha Marine National Park, located at a distance of about 340 km off the Brazilian coast, is formed by volcanic peaks of a...
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3462 FINLAND (North Karelia) - Bomban Orthodox prayer chapel in Nurmes
3462 Bomban Orthodox prayer chapel in NurmesBetween 1977 and 1978, on the shore of lake Pielinen, about three kilometers from the center of the town of Nurmes, was erected the Bomba house, a copy (a...
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3463 SAINT KITTS AND NEVIS - Christmas in Nevis
Named after the sugar cane (once the most important resource of the islands Saint Kitts and Nevis) and mas-short for masquerade, the Sugar Mas Carnival takes place every year between the penultimate...
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3464 BARBADOS - Morgan Lewis Windmill
3464 Morgan Lewis Windmill in Saint AndrewLocated in the northern parish of St. Andrew overlooking the eastern coastline of the island and the Scotland District, Morgan Lewis Windmill, is the last...
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1650, 2980, 3359, 3465 THAILAND (Bangkok) - Wat Pho, the Temple of the...
2980 Wat PhoPosted on 11.06.2015, 11.03.2017, 16.01.2020, 14.03.2021Named after a monastery in India where Buddha is believed to have lived, Wat Pho (known also as the Temple of the Reclining Buddha),...
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3466 SIERRA LEONE - Man with clothes iron in Freetown
3466 Man with clothes iron in FreetownEven if Sierra Leone is a resource-rich country, it remains among the world's poorest countries, with 2011 estimates indicating nearly 53% of Sierra Leoneans...
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