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0663 GERMANY (North Rhine-Westphalia) - Cologne Cathedral (UNESCO WHS)
With 157,4m height, Cologne Cathedral (Kölner Dom), dedicated to St. Peter, is the tallest Roman Catholic cathedral in the world. In 1248, when was commenced its construction, the site had been...
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0664 GREECE (Attica) - Acropolis of Athens (UNESCO WHS)
When we say Acropolis, our thoughts immediately fly to Athens, although there are many other acropoleisin Greece, the term being a general one, which designate a citadel built upon an area of elevated...
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0665 ITALY (Liguria) - Portovenere, Cinque Terre, and the Islands (Palmaria,...
Vernazza is a town with only 1.000 inhabitants, one of the five that make up the Cinque Terre region, a rugged portion of coast on the Italian Riviera designated an UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1997,...
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0666 SPAIN (Catalonia) - Works of Antoni Gaudí - Palau Güell (UNESCO WHS)
This building, one of the most luxurious of Barcelona, was commissioned to Antoni Gaudí by his main patron and lifetime friend, Eusebi Güell i Bacigalupi (Count of Güell, textile industrialist and...
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0667 MEXICO (Chiapas) - La Chiapanecas
Located in the Grijalva River valley of the Chiapas highlands, Chiapa de Corzo is a small city, important of the archaeological point of view, because here were found the earliest inscribed date, the...
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0668 UZBEKISTAN (Surxondaryo) - A Kungrat old woman
Besides Uzbeks, in Uzbekistan live a number of ethnic minorities, among which are the Kungrats (also named Hongirat, Qongirat, Onggirat, Qongrat, Wangjila, Yongjilie, or Guangjila), who can be found...
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0669-0670 RUSSIA (Moscow) - The Kremlin and Red Square (UNESCO WHS)
Moscow without Kremlin would be like Stalin without mustache. The Kremlin was the place where the Russian state was formed, where the issue of succession to the throne was decided, in medieval times,...
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0673 FRANCE (Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur) - Historic Centre of Avignon - Papal...
Located on the left bank of the Rhône river, a few kilometres above its confluence with the Durance, Avignon was founded by Gauls, becoming then a Phocaean colony, and under the Romans a flourishing...
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0674 ITALY (Lombardy) - Church and Dominican Convent of Santa Maria delle...
Santa Maria delle Grazie (Holy Mary of Grace) is a church and Dominican convent in Milan, included in the UNESCO World Heritage sites list. The convent was completed in 1469, at the order of Duke of...
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0675 GERMANY (Upper Bavaria) - The German Alpine Road at Sylvenstein Dam
The German Alpine Road (Deutsche Alpenstrasse) is a 430 km long stretch of roads snaking along the Austrian border, through the spectacular Alpine foothills of southern Bavaria, starting at Lindau on...
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0676 TAIWAN - Atayal women dancing
"Once upon a time, a stone named Pinspkan cracked apart and in it were three people. However, for an undisclosed reason, one of them decided to return back into the stone. Then there were two. The...
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0677 BULGARIA (Razgrad) - Thracian Tomb of Sveshtari (UNESCO WHS)
About Thracians I wrote when I presented the Thracian Tomb of Kazanlak, so I'll get straight to the point. One single remark I would like to make: the Danube was a barrier or a boundary only when the...
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0679 MYANMAR (Kachin) - Kachin girls on the bank of Mali River
The Kachin people (also known as Jingpho people) inhabit the Kachin Hills in northern Myanmar's Kachin State and neighbouring areas of China and India. They are actually an ethnic affinity of several...
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0680 FRANCE (Languedoc-Roussillon) - Fortifications of Vauban -...
Located in the Conflent region of Catalonia (now in the Pyrénées-Orientales department in France), at the confluence of the Têt and Cady rivers, Villefranche-de-Conflent bars the road down the valley...
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0681 ITALY (Campania) - Historic Centre of Naples (UNESCO WHS)
Naples is one of the oldest continuously-inhabited cities in the world, Greek settlements being established there in the second millennium BC. Subsequent the city named Neápolis played a key role in...
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0710 UNITED STATES (Pennsylvania) - An Amish family in Lancaster County
"Strolling along a rural road and admiring the flower, this Amish family is the sum total of all who went before. The Amish work with nature, not against it. They live in peace and brotherhood with...
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0711 FRANCE (Alsace) - Strasbourg - Grande île (UNESCO WHS)
Located on the Ill River, close to the border with Germany, actually historically German-speaking, as the entire Alsace, Strasbourg was built on the site of an ancient Celtic settlement (Argentorate),...
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0712 INDIA - A snake charmer and his apprentices
Snake charming is common in some Asian and North African nations, but, without doubt, this practice is most widespread in India. Snake charmers pretend that they hypnotise the snakes by playing an...
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0713 VIETNAM (Quang Nam) - Hoi An Ancient Town (UNESCO WHS)
Located on the coast of the South China Sea, in the South Central Coast of Vietnam, Hội An ("peaceful meeting place"; known historically as Faifo, from the Vietnamese Hội An phố - the town of Hội An)...
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0714 TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO (Trinidad) - La Brea Pitch Lake
The Pitch Lake is the largest natural deposit of asphalt in the world (40 ha), located at La Brea (Spanish for "the tar"), a town in southwestern Trinidad. It has fascinated explorers and scientists,...
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