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1128 GREECE (South Aegean) - The traditional architecture of Oia, in Santorini
Located in the southern Aegean Sea, about 200km southeast of Greece's mainland, Santorini, classically Thera, and officially Thira, is the largest island of a small, circular archipelago which bears...
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0379, 1129 CROATIA (Dubrovnik-Neretva) - Old City of Dubrovnik (UNESCO WHS)
Posted on 09.11.2012, 07.07.2014Located in the southern Dalmatian coast, Dubrovnik, named official Ragusa until 1918, and known as Pearl of the Adriatic or even Thesaurum mundi, "is a remarkably...
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1130 INDIA (Rajasthan) - A Rajasthani woman in traditional dress
Located on the western side of India, at the border with Pakistan, between Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Haryana, and Punjab, and comprising most of the wide and inhospitable Thar Desert,...
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1131 NETHERLANDS (North Holland) - An orange Amsterdam
I searched long time on the Internet this postcard, but I couldn't find it, so I don't know why gathered all these people on this canal in Amsterdam. Anyway, it must be something with national spirit,...
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1133 SPAIN (Balearic Islands) - The traditional Ibiza women dress
Placed at 79km off the coast of the city of Valencia, Ibiza (Catalan: Eivissa), the third largest of the Balearic Islands, is well known in our days for its summer club scene which attracts very large...
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1030, 1134 ITALY (Tuscany) - Historic Centre of Siena (UNESCO WHS)
Posted on 12.03.2014, 09.07.2014Settled 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,...
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1019, 1135 UNITED STATES (New York) - The map of State of New York
Posted on 02.03.2014, 09.07.2014Bordered 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,...
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0733, 0734, 1136 CROATIA (Split-Dalmatia) - Historical Complex of Split with...
Posted on 11.07.2013, 09.07.2014It is said that the Diocletian's Palace is placed on the center of the city of Split. For the sake of accuracy, I must say that in fact the city was built around the...
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1137 GRENADA - The carnival in Island of Spice
Located in the southeastern Caribbean Sea, and known as the Island of Spice, Grenada, a former colony of Britain and France, was built on the labour of enslaved Africans, so the vast majority of the...
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1138 FAROE ISLANDS - Kamarið Cliff in Suðuroy
Covering 163.7 square kilometres and being inhabited by 4,678 people, Suðuroy (literally South Island) is the southernmost of the Faroe Islands. It is the island which has the most islets and skerries...
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0432, 1139 JORDAN - Wadi Rum Protected Area (UNESCO WHS)
Posted on 26.12.2012, 10.07.2014Placed between Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Syria and Israel, sharing control of the Dead Sea with the latter two, and its only port, at the Gulf of Aqaba, with Israel, Egypt,...
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1140 KAZAKHSTAN - Mosque Khazret Sultan in Astana
In 1997, Nursultan Nazarbayev, the Kazakhstan's leader since 1989, but found in the circles of power long before the separation of the country from Soviet Union, moved the capital from Almaty in the...
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1141 ALGERIA - Women from the south of Algeria in traditional clothes
As in other Maghreb countries, the majority of people from Algeria are Berbers in origins, and many of them identifies with an Arabic-based culture. Even if nine out of ten algerians live along the...
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1142 KOSOVO - A woman in traditional clothes and images of Pristina
Kosovo is a state located in the central Balkan Peninsula, which declared independence from Serbia in February 2008, recognised by 107 UN members (from 193) and Taiwan. Serbia recognises the Republic's...
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1143 BAHAMAS - St. Mary the Virgin Anglican Church in Nassau
The capital, largest city, and commercial centre of the Commonwealth of the Bahamas, Nassau is located on the island of New Providence, and was formerly known as Charles Town. Burned by the Spanish in...
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1144 SWAZILAND - King Mswati III and the Reed Dance
The Swazi are a BantuNguni-speaking people in southeastern Africa, chiefly in Swaziland and South Africa. The term bakaNgwane (Ngwane's people) is still used as an alternative to emaSwati, to refer to...
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1145 BARBADOS - Historic Bridgetown and its Garrison (UNESCO WHS)
Bridgetown, the capital and largest city of Barbados, is located along the Carlisle Bay, on the southwestern coast of the island. The present day location of the city was established by English...
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1146 POLAND (Lublin) - Old City of Zamość (UNESCO WHS)
Founded in the 16th century by the chancellor Jan Zamoysky on the trade route linking western and northern Europe with the Black Sea, Zamość is, in the view of UNESCO, "a unique example of a...
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1147 HONDURAS - Maya Site of Copan (UNESCO WHS)
Discovered in 1570 by Diego García de Palacio, the ruins of Copán, one of the most important sites of the Mayan civilization (located now on western Honduras, near to the border with Guatemala) were...
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0398, 0509, 0862, 1148, 1149 BRAZIL (Paraná) - Iguazú Falls (UNESCO WHS)
Posted on 28.11.2012, 18.02.2013, 15.11.2013, and 18.07.2014"It is said that many years ago, there was a big and monstrous serpent which lived in the Iguazú river and its name was Boi. Once per year,...
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