3154 MEXICO (Guanajuato) - San Miguel de Allende - part of Protective town of...
The city of San Miguel de Allende sits at a high elevation (1910m) on the Central Mexican Plateau, which is a large arid-to-semi-arid plateau that occupies much of northern and central Mexico. A series...
View Article3155 ROMANIA (Bucharest) - The 5th Meetup of the group Postcrossing &...
The 5th meeting of this group of collectors passionate by postcrossing and philately alike had in teh program a visit to a less common place: the Bellu Cemetery in Bucharest. Officialy named Şerban...
View Article3156 PHILIPPINES (National Capital Region) - Feast of the Black Nazarene
The Black Nazarene is a life-sized image of a dark-skinned, kneeling Jesus Christ carrying the Cross enshrined in the Minor Basilica of the Black Nazarene in the Quiapo district of the City of Manila....
View Article3157 VIETNAM (South Central Coast) - A friendly smile from Hội An
In almost the entire 20th century, Vietnam was the scene of military conflicts, not seldom atrocious. The more precious is the gentle and warm smile of this old woman from Hội An, who bears on the head...
View Article2425, 2738, 3158 NETHERLANDS (Sint Maarten) - Maho Beach
2425 Sint Maarten - An Air France Airbus over Maho BeachPosted on 01.04.2016, 05.08.2016, 07.10.2017The island of Saint Martin is served by many major airlines that daily bring in large jet aircraft,...
View Article3159 BRAZIL - Ants from Brazil
Insects are, by far, the largest group of animals on the Earth (well over 1,000,000 species), representing 95% of the arthropods and 65% of the animal kingdom. Of these, 10,000 species are of ants...
View Article3160 SWEDEN (Skåne) - Kristianstad
Located in Scania, the southernmost province of Sweden, on the river Helgeå (lit. "The Holy river"), Kristianstad has gone during the last 15 years from a garrison town to a developed commercial city,...
View Article3161 UNITED KINGDOM (England) - HMS Victory
3161 Starboard side of H.M.S. VictoryHMS Victory is a 104-gun first-rateship of the line of the Royal Navy, and one of the most famous warships ever launched. Ordered in 1758, laid down in 1759 and...
View Article1067-1070, 1541, 2735, 3162 UNITED STATES (New York) - Statue of Liberty...
1067 - Liberty Island and the Statue of LibertyPosted on 28.04.2014, 25.04.2015, 04.08.2016, 08.10.2017The Statue of Liberty (Liberty Enlightening the World) is a colossal neoclassical sculpture on...
View Article3163 TAIWAN - Dadaocheng Wharf in Taipei
3163 Dadaocheng Wharf in Taipei at sunsetLocated in Twatutia, Datong district, on the banks of the Tamsui River, near the No. 5 Water Gate, Dadaocheng was originally settled by Pingpu people that...
View Article1061, 3164 CHINA (Guangdong / Guangxi / Guizhou / Hainan / Hubei / Hunan /...
3164 Miao peoplePosted on 21.04.2014, 08.10.2017Miao is an ethnic group who live primarily in southern China, in the provinces of Guizhou, Hunan, Yunnan, Sichuan, Guangxi, Hainan, Guangdong, and Hubei,...
View Article3165 GERMANY (Bremen) - Schnoor quarter
Many of the sights in Bremen are found in the Altstadt (Old Town), an oval area surrounded by the River Weser, on the southwest, and the Wallgraben, the former moats of the medieval city walls, on the...
View Article3166 POLAND (Greater Poland) - Pleszew Narrow Gauge Railway
Pleszew is a town located about 90 km southeast of Poznań. The 3km narrow gauge line from Pleszew Miasto (town) station to Pleszew Wąsk (narrow gauge) station (adjacent to Pleszew main line station in...
View Article3167 ROMANIA (Bucharest) - Ligia and Pompiliu Macovei Art Collection
The Ligia and Pompiliu Macovei Art Collection is located in the donors' private residence, a building erected at the beginning of the 20th century, in a French eclectic style, which can be found on...
View Article3168 SLOVAKIA (Bratislava) - Čumil the Peeper
Čumil is an Bratislavian emerging sewer worker, who got his head out of a manhole and... And nothing. Nobody knows what he's doing. Is he resting? Is he heading down to clean up your mess? Or is he...
View Article3169 ROMANIA (Bucharest) - Postcrossing Meetup, Bucharest, 9 October 2017...
World Post Day is celebrated each year on 9 October, the anniversary of the establishment of the Universal Postal Union (UPU) in 1874 in the Swiss Capital, Bern. It was declared World Post Day by the...
View Article3170 UKRAINE (Lviv) - Potocki Palace in Lviv
The Potocki Palace in Lviv was built in the 1880s as an urban seat of Alfred Józef Potocki, former Minister-President of Austria. It was confiscated by the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic in 1940,...
View Article3171 TURKEY (Marmara Region) - Gökçeada map
Located north of the entrance of Dardanelles Strait, in the Aegean Sea (11 nautical miles from the Gallipoli Peninsula), Gökçeada(named under 29 July 1970 Imbros) is the largest island of Turkey, and...
View Article3172 ROMANIA (Bucharest) - The 6th Meetup of the group Postcrossing &...
With the occasion of the 6th meetup of the group Postcrossing & Philately, which held in Bucharest, on 7 October 2017, Eugen Mihai edited a special postcard, in limited serie (60 copies). In image...
View Article3173 UNITED STATES (Wisconsin) - North Point Light
The North Point Light is a lighthouse located in Lake Park on the East Side of Milwaukee. It replaced a previous Cream City brick lighthouse constructed in 1855 that was located too close to the edge...
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