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0715 JORDAN - Quseir Amra (UNESCO WHS)
Located roughly 85km from Amman, this complex from Quseir Amra is a desert castle built in the early 8th century, both a fortress with a garrison and a residence of the Umayyad caliphs. What stands...
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0716 TAIWAN - A Seediq pair from Nantou playing the jaw harp
The Seediq (Sediq, Seejiq) are an aboriginal people who live primarily in Nantou County and Hualien County, and were officially recognised as Taiwan's 14th indigenous group in 2008. Seediq and Taiya...
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0717 BELGIUM (Brussels) - La Grand-Place (UNESCO WHS)
The Grand Place (Grote Markt in Dutch), the central square of Brussels, is surrounded by public and private buildings, which constitute a eclectic, but homogeneous architectural blend, that provides a...
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0718 UNITED KINGDOM (England) - Dorset and East Devon Coast (UNESCO WHS)
The cliff exposures along the Dorset and East Devon coast, on the English Channel coast of southern England, named also Jurassic Coast, provide an almost continuous sequence of rock formations spanning...
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0719 ITALY (Tuscany) - Volterra: Historical City and Cultural Landscape
Perched on harsh tableland at 552 meters above sea level, above the valleys of the Era and Cecina rivers, known to the ancient Etruscans as Velathri, to the Romans as Volaterrae, Volterra has...
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0720 TAIWAN - Ba Jia Jiang (Eight Generals)
To any religious event in Taiwan are present groups of young men with painted faces who wear elaborate costumes, a familiar sight to locals, even if no one really knows how they evolved or where they...
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0721 SPAIN (Andalusia) - Tarifa
Located on the Costa de la Luz (Coast of Light), across the Straits of Gibraltar, Tarifa is the southernmost point of the European continent, situated south of the African capital cities of Tunis and...
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0722 SWEDEN (Stockholm) - High above the Stadshuset
Located on the eastern tip of Kungsholmen island, Stockholm City Hall (Stadshuset in Swedish) is the building of the Municipal Council and houses offices and conference rooms as well as ceremonial...
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0723 CAMBODIA (Phnom Penh) - A fruit market
It is said that South East Asia’s markets are some of the most interesting of the world, and the Cambodia's ones aren't exceptions. Obviously that in such a traditional market (psah) the fruit and...
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0724 GREECE (Peloponnese) - Archaeological Sites of Mycenae and Tiryns...
Essentially a continuation of the Middle Helladic culture, transformed by Minoan influences from Crete, the Mycenaean civilization developed on the Greek mainland roughly between 1600 and 1100 BC,...
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0725 PHILIPPINES (Palawan) - Tubbataha Reefs Natural Park (UNESCO WHS)
The Tubbataha Reef is an atoll coral reef and a Natural Marine Park in Sulu Sea, at 150km southeast of Puerto Princesa City, comprising two huge atolls (the North Atoll and South Atoll) and the smaller...
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0726 FINLAND (Uusimaa) - Finnish National Opera House
Regular opera performances began in Finland in 1873 with the founding of the Finnish Opera by Kaarlo Bergbom, but they have ceased in 1879 due to a financial crisis. In 1911 a group of notable social...
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0727 MOLDOVA - Young women in traditional clothes (National Folk Dance...
As I wrote in more detail here, Moldavia (Moldova) is a historical region and a former principality, corresponding to the territory between the Eastern Carpathians and the Dniester (Nistru) river. The...
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0338, 0474, 0593 & 0728 NEPAL - Kathmandu Valley (UNESCO WHS)
Posted on 21.09.2012 and completed on 10.04.2013 Only two UNESCO World Heritage Sites are located in Nepal, but if we consider the fact that one of them, Kathmandu Valley, has at least 130 important...
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0729 CZECH REPUBLIC (Moravia) - Church of Saint Thomas in Brno
The Church of Saint Thomas and the Annunciation (Kostel sv. Tomáše Apoštola a Zvěstování P. Marie), situated in Moravian Square (Moravské náměstí) in Brno, was founded in the middle of 14th century by...
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0730 CHINA - A fisherman in Water Regions
As you can see, on this postcard is written only "Scenery of Water Regions". As I suspected from the beginning, Water Regions isn't a particular region of China, but a generic term that refers to the...
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0731 JAPAN (Kantō) - Kaminarimon, the outer gate of Sensō-ji, in Tokyo
The Kaminarimon (Thunder Gate) is the outer of the two large entrance gates that leads to the Sensō-ji, an ancient Buddhist temple located in Asakusa, Taitō, Tokyo, actually Tokyo's oldest temple. It...
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0732 & 0733 SPAIN (Andalusia) - Historic Centre of Córdoba (UNESCO WHS)
Located on the banks of the Guadalquivir river, Córdoba was mentioned for the first time in relation with the Carthaginian general Hamilcar Barca (father of Hannibal), who renamed the settlement...
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0733 & 0734 CROATIA (Split-Dalmatia) - Historical Complex of Split with the...
It 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 palace. It was began in 293 AD, and...
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0735 FINLAND (Uusimaa) - The Espoo Cathedral
This medieval grey granite church is the oldest in Espoo, the second largest city in Finland, located on the shore of the Gulf of Finland. Originally designed in the late 15th century by an unknown...
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