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0634 GERMANY (North Rhine-Westphalia) - Schlosspark Benrath
Set near Düsseldorf, in the middle of a large park and surrounded by water features, Schloss Benrath (Benrath Castle) is a Rococomaison de plaisance, a testimony to late-Baroque taste. Erected for the...
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0635 FINLAND (Central Finland) - Petäjävesi Old Church (UNESCO WHS)
The Petäjävesi Old Church (Petäjäveden vanha kirkko) is a wooden church located in Central Finland region, on a peninsula where Lakes Jamsa and Petäjävesi meet, at about 1 km away from the town of...
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0636-0644 ROMANIA (Suceava) - Churches of Moldavia (UNESCO WHS)
This series of postcards, named Patrimonio and depicting Churches of Moldavia (listed by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site in 1993 and 2010), has for me and my collection a particular importance, and the...
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0645 FINLAND (Uusimaa) - Fortress of Suomenlinna (UNESCO WHS)
Due to the expansion of Russia in the 18th century in the Baltic Sea, Sweden, until then the dominant power in this sea, had to develope its fortifications from Finland, in those times still part of...
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0169, 0646, 0647 POLAND (Mazovia) - Historic Centre of Warsaw (UNESCO WHS)
Posted on 11.04.2012 and completed on 14.05.2013The legend attributes the Warsaw name to a fisherman Wars and his wife Sawa, a mermaid who lived in the Vistula River and who Wars fell in love with....
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0648 AUSTRALIA (Western Australia) - A church designed by a priest
St Francis Xavier Cathedral is the first Catholic Church in Geraldton, a port in the Mid West region of Western Australia, and is considered by many to be the greatest work of John Hawes, architect and...
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0649 CROATIA (Šibenik-Knin) - The Cathedral of St James in Šibenik (UNESCO WHS)
Šibenik, located on the Dalmatian coast, distinguishes from the majority of the settlements situated along the Adriatic coast (established by Greeks, Illyrians or Romans) through the fact that it was...
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0650 GERMANY (Saxony-Anhalt) - Die Grüne Zitadelle von Magdeburg
Born at Vienna in 1928 and became, to maturity, citizen of New Zealand, Friedensreich Hundertwasser (1928-2000) is one of the best-known artists of the end of the 20th century, but also one of the most...
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0651 POLAND (Pomerania) - Castle of the Teutonic Order in Malbork (UNESCO WHS)
This castle (Ordensburg Marienburg in German, that means Mary's Castle), built by the Teutonic Knights after the conquest of Old Prussia on the southeastern bank of the river Nogat, is the largest...
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0652 ITALY (Tuscany) - Historic centre of Florence (UNESCO WHS)
Founded by Romans as a settlement for veteran soldiers and named Fluentia, because it was built between two rivers, then successively ruled by Ostrogoths, Byzantines, and Lombards, Florence was...
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0653 GERMANY (Mecklenburg-Vorpommern) - Zeesenboot on Bodden
A bodden is a special realm, split between sea and land, without really belong to any of them. Isn't a lake, because has connections with the open sea. Isn't a bay, because is almost completely...
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0654 NETHERLANDS (Gelderland) - Devils House in Arnhem
Located on both banks of the river Nederrijn (Lower Rhine) as well as on the stream Sint-Jansbeek, Arnhem was first mentioned in 893, received city rights in 1233 and entered the Hanseatic League in...
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0655 THAILAND (Kanchanaburi) - The Bridge on the River Kwai
Until 1957, when was released the film The Bridge on the River Kwai, world public opinion didn't know much about how was built the Burma Railway. The largely fictional film plot is loosely based on the...
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0656 HUNGARY (Komárom-Esztergom) - The Basilica of Esztergom
Esztergom, one of the oldest towns in Hungary, was a long time a frontier town, as also its name say it (the Old Slavonic name, Strěgom, means guard post). Erected by Celts, then conquered by Romans,...
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0657 MEXICO (Veracruz) - El Tajin, Pre-Hispanic City (UNESCO WHS)
In 1785, an official stumbled upon by chance the Pyramid of the Niches, in the highlands of the municipality of Papantla, in the low mountains that lead from the Sierra Madre Oriental to the Gulf coast...
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0658 FINLAND (Satakunta) - Bronze Age Burial Site of Sammallahdenmäki (UNESCO...
Sammallahdenmäki is a Bronze age burial site in the village of Kivikylä, on a hill in a remote area off the road between Tampere and Rauma. Originally, it was near the coast of the Gulf of Bothnia, but...
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0659 UZBEKISTAN (Bukhara) - Historic Centre of Bukhara (UNESCO WHS)
According to the Iranian epic poem Shahnameh, it was founded by King Siavash, son of Shah Kai Kavoos, one of the mythical Iranian kings. Officially, it was founded in 500 BCE, subsequently being...
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0660 UKRAINE - A Cossack kobzar
His name is Ostap Kindrachuk, was born in 1937 in Horodenka (a small town now in Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast, in western Ukraine), and lives în Yalta (Crimea). He attempt to recreate the Ukrainian Cossack's...
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0661 TAIWAN - Amis young women dancing at the Adult Ceremony
The Amis are the largest ethnic group among the fourteen officially recognized peoples of Taiwanese aborigines, and they identify themselves as Pangcah, which means "human being", "people with the same...
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0662 AUSTRALIA (Australian Antarctic Territory) - David Range from Framnes...
In 1933 United Kingdom placed the Antarctic territory situated from 60°S latitude to the South Pole and between longitudes 160°E and 45°E under the authority of the Commonwealth of Australia. It became...
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