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1315 PAKISTAN (Punjab) - Taxila (UNESCO WHS)
Now, Taxila (in Sanskrit Takshashila, literally meaning City of Cut Stone or Rock of Taksha) is a small town situated about 32km north-west of Islamabad, but the ancient settlement was a noted centre...
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1316 UNITED NATIONS - Ban Ki-moon, the eighth Secretary-General of the UN
The Secretary-General of the United Nations (UNSG) is the head of the UN Secretariat, and acts as the de facto spokesperson and leader of the organization. He is appointed by the General Assembly upon...
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1317 IRAQ - The Dominican Clock Church in Mosul
With a rich ancient history, Mosul was an important trade center which linked Persia and the Mediterranean, so it was allways a cosmopolitan city. Christianity was present among the indigenous Assyrian...
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1318 KENYA - Maasai morans
The Maasai are a Nilotic ethnic group of semi-nomadic people inhabiting southern Kenya (840,000) and northern Tanzania (430,000), in the African Great Lakes region. According to their own oral history,...
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1319 UKRAINE (Donetsk Oblast) - Sviatohirsk Lavra
Named also the Holy Mountains Lavra, due to the surrounding mountains, Sviatohirsk Lavra is a historic Orthodox Christian monastery (a lavra) located on the right bank of the Seversky Donets River. The...
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1320 VIETNAM - Hồ Chí Minh
Hồ Chí Minh led the Vietnamese nationalist movement for more than three decades, fighting first against the Japanese, afterwards against the French colonial power and then against the US-backed South...
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1321 GUYANA - Kaieteur Falls
Located on the Potaro River, in Kaieteur National Park, Kaieteur Falls were discovered in1870 by the British geologist Charles Barrington Brown. They have 226m high from its plunge over a sandstone and...
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1322, 1323 NETHERLANDS (North Holland) - Zuiderkerk and Westerkerk in Amsterdam
Built between 1603 and 1611 in AmsterdamRenaissance style, as a pseudo-basilica in Gothic style, after a design by Hendrick de Keyser (buried in the church in 1621), the Zuiderkerk (Southern church)...
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1324 NEPAL - Manaslu, Mountain of the Spirit
Manaslu, which means "Mountain of the Spirit", also known as Kutang, or Pung-Gyen (The Bracelet), the eighth highest mountain in the world (8,156m), is located in the Mansiri Himal, in the northern...
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1325 CUBA - Havana
Havana extends mostly westward and southward from the bay with the same name, which is entered through a narrow inlet and which divides into three main harbours: Marimelena, Guanabacoa and Atarés. The...
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1326 SINGAPORE - Traditional Chinese street opera players
Wayang (a Malay word meaning "a theatrical performance employing puppets or human dancers") commonly refers to Chinese street opera in Singapore, though it is also used in reference to other forms of...
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1267, 1327 ITALY (Sicily) - Arab-Norman Palermo and the cathedral churches of...
Posted on 03.10.2014 (1267) - The Cathedral-Basilica of CefalùLocated on the northern coast of Sicily, Cefalù deserves noted mainly for its Cathedral, begun in 1131, in a style of Norman architecture,...
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0658, 1328 MEXICO (Veracruz) - El Tajin, Pre-Hispanic City (UNESCO WHS)
Posted on 25.05.2013 and completed on 08.11.2014In 1785, an official stumbled upon by chance the Pyramid of the Niches, in the highlands of the municipality of Papantla, in the low mountains that lead...
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1329 AUSTRALIA (Christmas Island) - The annual red crab mass migration
Located at 500km south of Indonesia, and at 1,560km from the town of Exmouth, the closest point of the Australian mainland, Christmas Island is quite isolated, so had a high level of endemism among its...
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0093, 0223, 0774, 1330 UNITED KINGDOM (England) - Stonehenge, Avebury and...
Posted on 08.01.2012, 26.05.2012, 30.07.2013 and 09.11.2014I don't know if Stonehenge is the most important megalithic construction which survived the history, but certainly is the best known and most...
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1331 FRANCE (Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur) - Château d'If
The Château d'If is a fortress located on the island of If, the smallest island in the Frioul archipelago situated in the Mediterranean Sea about a mile offshore in the Bay of Marseille. It was built...
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1125, 1272, 1332 UNITED STATES (Utah) - The map and the flag of State of Utah
Posted on 04.07.2014, 08.10.2014, and 13.11.2014Bordered 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...
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1333 CANADA (Ontario) / UNITED STATES (New York) - Niagara Falls
Located on the Niagara River, which drains Lake Erie into Lake Ontario, on the border between Canada and the United States, between the twin cities of Niagara Falls, Ontario, and Niagara Falls, New...
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1334, 1335 GERMANY (Berlin) - The Berlin Wall
The Berlin Wall (German: Berliner Mauer) was undoubtedly the most powerful symbol of the Iron Curtain, that separated the Western Bloc (the United States and its NATO allies) and the powers in the...
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1336 TURKEY - A belly dancer
Belly dance is a translation of the French term "danse du ventre", applied to the dance in the Victorian era, and originally referred to the Ouled Nail dancers of Algeria, whose dance used more...
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