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1106 CROATIA (Split-Dalmatia) - Historic City of Trogir (UNESCO WHS)
Located on a small island between the Croatian mainland and the island of ÄŒiovo, on the Adriatic coast, at 27km west of the city of Split, the historic city of Trogir is an excellent example of a...
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1107 PERU (Cusco) - A Quechua mother with her children on the Sacred Valley...
As it is known, the territory of present Peru was the heart of the Inca Empire, the largest empire in pre-Columbian America. It had a short life of only about 100 years, but at peak it included a...
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1108 SAUDI ARABIA (Makkah) - King Fahd's Fountain and Water Tower in Jeddah
Jeddah is the largest sea port on the Red Sea, and the second-largest city in Saudi Arabia after Riyadh, with a population of 5.1 million. It is also the principal gateway to Mecca (Islam's holiest...
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0535, 554, 1109 JORDAN - Petra (UNESCO WHS)
Posted on 02.03.2013, 15.03.2013, and 21.06.2014Â "...from the rock as if by magic grown, / eternal, silent, beautiful, alone!", as described it John William Burgon in a poem from 1845, Petra is...
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1110 MONGOLIA - Orkhon Valley Cultural Landscape - Erdene Zuu Monastery...
For many centuries, the Orkhon Valley, located in Central Mongolia, some 320 km west from the capital Ulan Bator, was viewed as the seat of the imperial power of the steppes. The first evidence comes...
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1111 ROMANIA - The map and the flag of the country
Located on the Lower Danube, at the north of the Balkan Peninsula (in which it is often framed, because of the historical and cultural similarities), on the western shore of the Black Sea, between...
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1112 UNITED KINGDOM (Scotland) - A Highlander piper near the Eilean Donan Castle
For centuries the inhabitants of Scotland have been building fortifications and strongholds of one kind or another, so that at one time there were over 3,000 castles, larger or smaller. Many of them...
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1113 MICRONESIA (Pohnpei) - Pohnpei Surfing
Pohnpei"upon (pohn) a stone altar (pei)" (formerly known as Ponape) is an island of the Senyavin Islands, which are part of the larger Caroline Islands group. It belongs to Pohnpei State, one of the...
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1114 INDIA (Goa) - Churches and Convents of Goa - The Tower of the Church of...
Situated at approximately 10km east of Panjim, Old Goa (Velha Goa) is a historical city, founded in the 15th century on the banks of the Mandovi river by the rulers of the Bijapur Sultanate, to...
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1115, 1116 RUSSIA (Arkhangelsk Oblast) - Cultural and Historic Ensemble of...
The Solovetsky Islands (or Solovki) are a group of six islands located in the Onega Bay of the White Sea, with a population of only 861 inhabitants. They have been the setting of the Russian Orthodox...
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1014, 1117 FINLAND - Sami people in traditional clothes
Posted on 25.02.2014, 26.06.2014The Sami people are the indigenous Finno-Ugric people inhabiting the Sápmi, the cultural region which today encompasses parts of far northern Norway, Sweden, Finland,...
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1118 BARBADOS - A traditional chattel house
In 1625 Barbados was claimed by England, and the first settlement in the island was founded in 1627 by Henry Powell, who arrived with 80 settlers and 10 slaves (kidnapped or runaway English or Irish...
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1119 FRANCE (Languedoc-Roussillon) - Historic Fortified City of Carcassonne...
Situated in the Aude plain between two great axis of circulation linking the Atlantic to the Mediterranean sea and the Massif Central to the Pyrénées, Carcassonne has about 2,500 years of history and...
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0652, 0653, 1120 ITALY (Tuscany) - Historic centre of Florence (UNESCO WHS)
Posted on 21.05.2013, 27.06.2014Founded by Romans as a settlement for veteran soldiers and named Fluentia, because it was built between two rivers, then successively ruled by Ostrogoths, Byzantines,...
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1121 SURINAME - A surinamese woman in amerindian cultural clothing
According to the 2012 census, only 3.7% of the population of Suriname are of indigenous ancestry, whitch means about 20,000 people. The main ethnic groups of original inhabitants can be devided into...
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1122 PERU (Puno) - Lake Titicaca (UNESCO WHS - Tentative List) and its...
Located in the Andes, on the border of Peru and Bolivia, Titicaca (Titiqaqa in Quechua) covers 8,300 square km and is the largest lake in South America, and also the highest navigable lake in the...
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1059, 1123 NEPAL - Faces of Nepal
Posted on 14.04.2014, 29.06.2014Nepali society is multiethnic and multilingual, Nepalese people (or Nepali or Gurkha) being the descendants of three major migrations from India, Tibet, and North Burma...
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1124 TURKEY (Aegean Region) - Miletus
Situated on the western coast of Asia Minor, near the mouth of the Maeander River (from which come the word "meander") in ancient Caria, Miletus was considered the greatest and wealthiest of Greek...
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1125 UNITED STATES (Utah) - The map and flag of State of Utah
Bordered by Colorado, Wyoming, Idaho, Arizona and Nevada (and touching a corner of New Mexico), Utah, one of the Four Corners states, is well known as the most religiously homogeneous state in the...
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1127 FIJI - Natadola Beach
Located in the South Pacific Ocean, at about 2,000 km northeast of New Zealand's North Island, and comprising 332 islands and 522 islets, Fiji is endowed with forest, mineral, and fish resources, being...
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