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2026, 3297 FINLAND - The land of the thousand lakes

3297Posted on 11.11.2015, 22.12.2019Much of the geography of Finland is explained by the Ice Age. The glaciers were thicker and lasted longer in Fennoscandia compared with the rest of Europe. Their...

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3298 ROMANIA (Alba) - Câlnic Citadel - part of Villages with Fortified...

The Câlnic Citadel began around 1270 as a residence for a Graf (Chyl de Kelling, whose family gave the village its German name), one of the last such to be built in Transylvania. The strong...

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3300 ROMANIA - Postcrossing Meetup, Bucharest, 17 June 2018

3300 The sixth postcard of the series"100 years since the Great Union of Romania" (6/12)- Pelicans in Danube DeltaThe previous postcard of the series "100 years since the Great Union of Romania"...

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3301 GERMANY (Hamburg) - Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg

Hamburg is the second-largest city in Germany after Berlin, 8th largest city in the European Union with a population of over 1.84 million, and also Europe's third-largest port. Located on the River...

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3302 ETHIOPIA (Southern Nations, Nationalities, and Peoples' Region) - Gurage...

Gurage is a zone named for the Gurage people, an HabeshaEthiosemitic-speaking ethnic group whose homeland lies in this zone. Most parts of this area are heavily eroded, which required farmers to...

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3303 MALAYSIA (Kuala Lumpur) - National Monument (Tugu Negara)

The National Monument is a sculpture that commemorates those who died in Malaysia's struggle for freedom, principally against the Japanese occupation during WWII and the Malayan Emergency, which lasted...

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3244, 3304 IRELAND - Irish writers

32443304Posted on 12.01.2018, 24.12.2019For a comparatively small place, the island of Ireland has made a disproportionate contribution to world literature in all its branches, in both the Irish and...

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3305 INDIA (Rajasthan) - Amber Fort - part of Hill Forts of Rajasthan (UNESCO...

Situated on a forested hill promontory in Amer, at 11 kilometres from Jaipur, Amber Fort overlooks Maota Lake. The settlement was founded by Raja Alan Singh, a ruler from the Chanda clan of Meenas in...

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3306 CZECH REPUBLIC (Vysočina) - Postcrossing Meetup, Jihlava, 27 January 2018

Masaryk Square in Jihlava, with Saint Ignatius Church and City HallSituated on the Jihlava river, on the historical border between Moravia and Bohemia, Jihlavais the oldest mining town in the Czech...

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3307 GERMANY (Saxony) - Brühl's Terrace in Dresden

Brühl's Terrace is a historic architectural ensemble in Dresden, which stretches high above the shore of the river Elbe. Located north of the recently rebuilt Neumarkt Square and the Frauenkirche, is...

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3309 UNITED STATES (Hawaii) - Pearl Harbour

Located on the island of Oahu, west of Honolulu, near the center of the Pacific Ocean, roughly 2,000 miles from the U.S. mainland and about 4,000 miles from Japan, Pearl Harboris well known as the...

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3310 ROMANIA - Postcrossing Meetup, Bucharest, 14 July 2018

3310 The seventh postcard of the series"100 years since the Great Union of Romania" (7/12)- traditional Romanian dance named hora. The previous postcard of the series "100 years since the Great Union...

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3311 FRANCE (Occitania) - Entombment of Christ in Saint-Pierre de Carennac...

Carennac, one of the most beautiful villages of France, lies in the fertile valley of the Dordogne River, nestled under the barren, parched plateau locally named 'le Causse', and belongs to the...

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3312 ISRAEL (Jerusalem) - Via Dolorosa - part of The Old City of Jerusalem...

Via Dolorosa (Sorrowful Way‎) is a processional route in the Old City of Jerusalem, believed to be the path that Jesus walked on the way to his crucifixion. The winding route from the former Antonia...

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3314 MYANMAR (Sagaing Region) - Settawya Pagoda in Mingun

Located on the west bank of Irrawaddy river, a mere 230 meters SE of the Mingun Pahtodawgyi, the Settawya Pagoda is a small, whitewashed Buddhist chapel constructed along classical Pagan lines, built...

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3315 UNITED STATES (California) - San Francisco

Located on the West Coast of the United States at the north end of the San Francisco Peninsula, San Francisco includes significant stretches of the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay within its...

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3316 ITALY (Basilicata) - The Sassi and the Park of the Rupestrian Churches...

3316 View of Sasso Caveoso in Matera, from the Murge Lying in a small canyon carved out by the Gravina River, Materais known as la città sotterranea (the underground city), because its historical...

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3317 MOLDOVA - Postcrossing Meetup, Chișinău, 23 June 2018

3317 The eighth postcard of the series"100 years since the Great Union of Romania" (8/12)- Old Orhei landscape. The previous postcard of the series "100 years since the Great Union of Romania"...

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3318 GREECE (Eastern Macedonia and Thrace) - Giola in Thassos Island

Located in the south of the island of Thassos, near of little village Astris, Giola is а natural seа lagοon carved in rоcks. Separated from the sea by a narrow strip of rocks, it looks like a pool of...

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0555-0557, 3319 BULGARIA (Burgas) - Ancient City of Nessebar (UNESCO WHS)

3319 The Ancient City of NessebarPosted on 15.03.2013, 31.12.2019For miles, the road from Varna to Nessebar creeps like a snake along the coast, through the forests where coniferous and deciduous mix...

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