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3364-3371 FRANCE (Île-de-France) - Musée de la Poupée in Paris
3364 Two Bleuette dolls (left - 1920s, right - 1930)The Musée de la Poupée was a private doll museum located in Paris, in a quiet alley in the very crowded Marais district, between the Pompidou Center...
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3374 COMOROS - Old Friday Mosque in Moroni
Located in Medina (the historic centre of Moroni - the federal capital of Comoros), in front of the old harbor and port, the Old Friday Mosque (Ancienne Mosquée de Vendredi) is the oldest mosque in the...
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3375 GERMANY (Bremen) - Postcrossing Meetup, Bremerhaven, 30 June 2018
This postcard, issued special for the first Postcrossing meeting which held in Bremerhaven, depicts Havenwelten (Harbour worlds), a maritime-styled quarter in Bremerhaven (about the city I wrote here)....
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3376 CAMBODIA - Royal Ploughing Ceremony
The Royal Ploughing Ceremony is an ancient royal rite held in many Asian countries to mark the traditional beginning of the rice growing season. In the various versions of Ramayana, Sita, the heroine...
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3377 IRELAND - Wild Ireland
Ireland has a particularly strong traditional link with donkeys. From the start of the 19th century to the middle of the 20th century, donkeys played a key role in rural lives, especially in the west...
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3003, 3378 ROMANIA (Bucharest) - Cotroceni Palace
Posted on 30.03.2017, 21.01.2020Between 1679 and 1681, Şerban Cantacuzino, Prince of Wallachia, has deforested a densely wooded area of the former Vlăsia forest, on the right bank of the Dâmboviţa...
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3379 UNITED STATES (Hawaii) - Queen Liliuokalani
If Kamehameha The Great (c. 1758? - 1819) was the first ruler of the Kingdom of Hawaii, Liliuokalani was the last one, ruling from January 29, 1891, until the overthrow of the Hawaiian Kingdom on...
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3380 CAMBODIA (Phnom Penh) - Norodom Sihanouk Memorial
The Norodom Sihanouk Memorial is a monument commemorating former King Norodom Sihanouk located in Phnom Penh. The bronze statue is 4.5 meters tall and is housed under a 27 meter high stupa in the park...
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3382 CZECH REPUBLIC (Ústí nad Labem) - Drinking beer in Žatec
Žatec is famous for an over-700-year-long tradition of growing Saaz noble hops used by several breweries, produces its own beer and hosts Dočesná, its (hops related) harvest festival every year on the...
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3383 TURKEY (Central Anatolia Region) - Mevlana Museum in Konya
Located in Konya, the Mevlâna Museum is the mausoleum of Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi, a PersianSufi mystic also known as Mevlâna or Rumi. It was also the dervish lodge (tekke) of the Mevlevi order,...
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3384 CANADA (British Columbia) - Mount Seymour
Located in Mount Seymour Provincial Park, Mount Seymour is a part of the North Shore Mountains, rising to the north from the shores of Burrard Inlet and Indian Arm to a summit of 1,449 m above the...
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3385 UNITED KINGDOM (England) - Buckingham Palace
The London residence and administrative headquarters of the monarchy of the United Kingdom, but also the centre of state occasions and royal hospitality, Buckingham Palace is located in the City of...
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3386 SLOVENIA (Slovene Littoral) - The weaving of traditional Istrian baskets...
Basket weaving is one of the widest spread crafts in the history of any human civilization. It is hard to say just how old the craft is because natural materials like wood, grass, and animal remains...
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3387 MALAYSIA (Kuala Lumpur) - Jamek Mosque
Located at the confluence of the Klang and Gombak River,Jamek Mosque, officiallySultan Abdul Samad Jamek Mosque, is one of the oldest mosques in Kuala Lumpur. Designed by Arthur Benison Hubback in...
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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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3389 ROMANIA (Argeş) - Traveling around the world... with Mihnea Raducu
In 2018, at the end of April, Mihnea Răducu exhibited in the Great Hall of the Curtea de Argeș Municipal Museum a small part of his collection, more than 100 original Coca-Cola bottles from 40...
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3390 CZECH REPUBLIC (Vysočina) - Jewish Quarter and St. Procopius' Basilica...
The historical treasury of Třebíč, a town located in western Moravia, on the Jihlava River, includes the old Jewish Quarter (former ghetto) the Jewish Cemetery and the large RomanesqueSt Procopius'...
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2699, 3391 UNITED KINGDOM - Elizabeth II
2699 Queen Elizabeth II addresses politicians and members of the House of Lords during the State Opening of Parliament in Westminster.Posted on 21.08.2016, 25.01.2020Elizabeth II (Elizabeth Alexandra...
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3392 NETHERLANDS (Netherlands / North Holland) - The Bulldog Coffeeshop in...
The story of The Bulldog starts in 1975, when Henk de Vries, who had started selling marijuana in 1970 at the Kralingen Music Festival, converted his father's sex shop in Amsterdam's red-light district...
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3393 SPAIN (Castile and León) - The Millenium Dome in Valladolid
The Millennium Dome is a space in Valladolid next to the river Pisuerga, with multiple options in regard to the activities that can be held in its interior, such as concerts, conferences, exhibitions,...
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