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1033 SPAIN (Cantabria) - Cave of Altamira and Paleolithic Cave Art of...

The Altamira cave, located near the town of Santillana del Mar, 30 km west of the city of Santander, was well known to locals, but had not been given much attention until in 1868, when it was...

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0166 & 1034 UNITED ARAB EMIRATES (Dubai) - Burj Al Arab, "the power of...

Posted on 06.04.2012, 16.03.2014The first postcard is very representative and suggestive for the current state of the emirates, combining in a appropriate way the past, the present, and even the...

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1035 UNITED STATES (California) - The GS-5 steam locomotive No. 4459 in 1953,...

This is the first postcard about which there was no need to search informations, because what it is written on its back it is more then enough:"Four years before this great picture was taken,...

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1036 MONGOLIA - The Traditional Naadam festival (UNESCO ICH)

Naadam (literally "games") is a traditional festival in Mongolia (but also in China, in areas in which live Mongols), termed locally Eriin gurvan naadam (the three games of men), which exist, probably,...

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1037 GREECE (Crete) - Gorge of Samaria National Park (UNESCO WHS - Tentative...

Crete, the largest of the Greek islands, once the center of the Minoan civilization, is mountainous and a land of gorges, the most glamorous being Samariá Gorge, the symbol of the island, which holds a...

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1038 GUYANA - St. Georges Anglican Cathedral (UNESCO WHS - Tentative List)

Located on Church Street in Georgetown, the capital city of Guyana, this Anglican cathedral, designed by Sir Arthur Blomfield, was consecrated in 1894. At the beginning, the architect Arthur Blomfield...

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1039 CROATIA (Dubrovnik-Neretva) - Historical-town planning ensemble of Ston...

The fertile fields and large protected bays of the south of isthmus of the Pelješac peninsula, where is located the municipality of Ston, favoured always the human settlements, as proved the...

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1040 UNITED STATES (Hawaii) - Merrie Monarch Festival

The early settlement history of Hawaii isn't completely resolved. One hypothesis is that the first Polynesians arrived in Hawaiʻi in the 3rd century from the Marquesas and were followed by Tahitians in...

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1041 RUSSIA - A family in traditional clothes

The area now called Russia has always been multicultural. Russian culture started from that of the East Slavs, with their pagan beliefs and specific way of life in the wooded areas of Eastern Europe....

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1042, 1043 POLAND (Subcarpathia) - Baranów Sandomierski Castle

Located in southern Poland, on the central section of the Vistula River, the small town Baranów Sandomierski, first mentioned in 1135, was an important center of Calvinism during the Protestant...

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0092, 0171, 0534, 1004, 1005, 1044 CAMBODIA (Siem Reap) - Angkor (UNESCO WHS)

Posted on 06.01.2012, 14.04.2012, 02.03.2013, 16.02.2014 and 03.04.2014Subjected to the Indian influences, passed through filters Thai or Lao, for more than 1,000 years, the Khmer have created firstly...

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1016, 1017, 1045 RUSSIA (Krasnodar Krai) - Venues of the 2014 Winter Olympics...

Posted on 28.02.2014, 05.04.2014Located 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...

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1046 TURKEY (Aegean Region) - Didyma

Didim, a small town and a popular seaside holiday resort on the Aegean coast, on the north shore of the gulf of Güllük, is home of the antique city of Didyma with its Temple of Apollo, the Didymaion....

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UNITED STATES (Hawaii) - Kauai

Kauai (or Kauaʻi), the oldest and northernmost island in the Hawaiian chain, the fourth largest of the archipelago, was formed by the passage of the Pacific plate over the Hawaii hotspot, with six...

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0701, 1052 ITALY (Veneto) - City of Verona (UNESCO WHS)

Posted on 27.06.2013, 07.04.2014At the time when was happening the action of Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare, Verona reached its maximum prosperity, under the rule of the Scaliger family and...

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1055 VIETNAM - Only demons have white teeth?

The areca nut is the seed of the areca palm (Areca catechu), which grows in much of the tropical Pacific, Asia, and parts of east Africa. It is commonly referred to as betel nut (even if it isn't a...

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1056 RUSSIA (Republic of Karelia) - The Valamo archipelago - The Saviour...

Valaam (also known by the Finnish name Valamo) is an archipelago in the northern portion of Lake Ladoga, best known for its more than 200 relicts of the past. In the 12th century, the islands were a...

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1057 UNITED STATES (Wyoming) - The map of State of Wyoming

Placed between Montana, South Dakota, Nebraska, Colorado, Utah, and Idaho, Wyoming is one of the three states (along with Colorado and Utah) which have borders along straight latitudinal and...

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0607, 1058 MOROCCO (Souss-Massa-Drâa) - Ksar of Ait-Ben-Haddou (UNESCO WHS)

Posted on 19.04.2013, 04.03.2014Ksar is the Maghrebi Arabic term for "castle", but it has a more general meaning of "fortified village", or "fort". It form one of the main manifestations of Berber...

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1059 NEPAL - Faces of Nepal

Nepali society is multiethnic and multilingual, Nepalese people (or Nepali or Gurkha) being the descendants of three major migrations from India, Tibet, and North Burma and the Chinese province of...

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