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1010 JAPAN (Chūbu) - Tateyama Kurobe Alpine Route
The Tateyama Kurobe Alpine Route, known also as the "Roof of Japan", is a famous mountain sightseeing route between the cities Tateyama and Ōmachi, in the center of the island of Honshu. The route,...
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1011 ESTONIA (Saaremaa) - Traditional clothes in Jämaja
Estonians are a Finnic people and have strong ties to the Nordic countries, stemming from important cultural and religious influences gained over centuries during Scandinavian and German rule and...
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1012 UNITED STATES (Texas) - The map and the flag of Texas
Located in the Gulf of Mexico, at the border with Mexico, between New Mexico, Oklahoma, Arkansas, and Louisiana, Texas is the second most populous (after California) and the second-largest of the 50...
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1013 CROATIA (Zagreb) - Croatian National Theatre in Zagreb
As the largest city of Croatia, Zagreb occupy, of course, leading economic position in the country, making it a global and cosmopolitan metropolis. This thing, but mostly its status as the capital, its...
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1014 FINLAND - A young sami man with gákti and Four Winds hat
The Sami people are the indigenous Finno-Ugric people inhabiting the Sápmi, the cultural region which today encompasses parts of far northern Norway, Sweden, Finland, the Kola Peninsula of Russia, and...
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1015 BONAIRE - The main street of Kralendijk
Located in Carribean Sea, at only 80km north of Venezuelan coast, and 48km est of Curaçao, Bonaire is a island that, together with the uninhabited islet of Klein Bonaire, forms a special municipality...
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1016-1017 RUSSIA (Krasnodar Krai) - Sochi Olympic Park
Located on the Black Sea coast, near the Caucasus Mountains, not far from the border with Georgia / Abkhazia, Greater Sochi area sprawls for 145 kilometers and is Federation's largest resort city. It...
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1019 UNITED STATES (New York) - The map of New York
Bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south and by Connecticut, Massachusetts, and Vermont to the east, New York State has a maritime border with Rhode Island, as well as an international...
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1020 POLAND (Świętokrzyskie) - Krzyżtopór Palace
Built by Krzysztof Ossoliński (1587-1645), a Polish nobleman and Voivode of Sandomierz, this castle, located in the village of Ujazd, in southern Poland, was partially destroyed during the Swedish...
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1021 CANADA (Ontario) - Ontario Legislative Building in Toronto
Located in Queen's Park, on that part south of Wellesley Street which is the former site of King's College (later the University of Toronto), and which is leased from the university by the provincial...
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1022 GUYANA - The flag of Guyana (the Golden Arrow)
According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the name "Guyana" comes from an Amerindian word meaning "land of waters". Anyway, historically speaking, The Guianas (Las Guayanas in spanish) refers to a...
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1022 POLAND (Greater Poland) - Girls in traditional Bamberg costumes in Poznań
Located on the Warta river, Poznań was an important cultural and political centre with centuries before the Christianization of Poland, becoming later the capital of Wielkopolska (Greater Poland), and,...
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1024-1025 GREECE (Macedonia) - Paleochristian and Byzantine monuments of...
Founded around 315 BC by the King Cassander of Macedon (son of Antipater, one of the great generals of Philip II and Alexander the Great), on or near the site of the ancient town of Therma and 26 other...
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1026 NORWAY (Sogn og Fjordane) - Urnes Stave Church (UNESCO WHS)
A stave church is a medieval wooden Christian church, named so due to its structure of poles and lintels, the load-bearing posts being called stafr in Old Norse and stav in Norwegian. Once common all...
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1027 CHILE (Tarapacá) - Humberstone and Santa Laura Saltpeter Works (UNESCO WHS)
The gunpowder is only a simple mix of sulphur, charcoal and saltpeter, but it is known how much it influenced our history. Well, among the three ingredients, the last was the hardest to obtain until...
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1028 GERMANY (Saxony-Anhalt) - Luther Memorials in Eisleben and Wittenberg...
In 15th century, Eisleben, situated in the eastern foothills of the Harz Mountains, was a pretty prosperous town, due to its copper mines, exploited since the 13th century. Here was born, on 10...
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1029 AUSTRIA (Lower Austria) - Heiligenkreuz Abbey (UNESCO WHS - Tentative List)
Located in the southern part of the Vienna woods, at about 13 km north-west of Baden, Stift Heiligenkreuz (Holy Cross Abbey) is the oldest continuously occupied Cistercian monastery in the world. It...
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1030 ITALY (Tuscany) - Historic Centre of Siena (UNESCO WHS)
Settled for the first time by Etruscans (c. 900-400 BC), Siena was founded, according to legend, by Senius, son of Remus. Anyway, it didn't prospered under Roman rule, because it wasn't sited near any...
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1031 CHINA (Hubei) - The hometown of the poet Qu Yuan
Qu Yuan (343-278 BC) was a poet who served in high offices in the ancient state of Chu, known for his contributions to the classical poetry, especially through the poems of the Chu Ci anthology (also...
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1032 BRAZIL - The flag of the country
The Portuguese territories in the Americas, corresponding roughly to what is now Brazil, never had their own flag, since the Portuguese imposed hoisting the flag of their kingdom in all territories of...
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