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1493, 1579 COOK ISLANDS - Aitutaki, the jewel of the Cook Islands
1493 Cook Island - Aerial view of Aitatuki Posted on 22.03.2015, 14.05.2015Aitutaki is one of the Cook Islands, an island country in the South Pacific Ocean in free association with New Zealand....
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1063, 1580 MEXICO (Oaxaca) - Historic Centre of Oaxaca and Archaeological...
1063 Pre-Columbian archaeological site of Monte Albán (1)Posted on 22.04.2014, 14.05.2015This World Heritage property, located in the central valleys of Oaxaca, in the depression formed between the...
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1581 INDONESIA (Java) - The peacock dance (Tari Merak) in West Java
The peacock dance is a traditional folk dance popular in Asia, especially by Dai people in China, in Bangladesh, and in the western and northern parts of Cambodia.. In Indonesia, it is known as the...
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1582 MALTA - Blue Grotto
The Blue Grotto (Maltese: Taht il-Hnejja) is actually a number of sea caverns on the south coast of Malta, east of the fishermen's harbour Wied iż-Żurrieq in the village of Qrendi, right across from...
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1583 CAPE VERDE (São Vicente) - Mindelo
Founded in 1795 by the Portuguese, Mindelo is a port city in the northern part of the island of São Vicente, one of the Barlavento islands, located between the islands of Santo Antão and Santa Luzia,...
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1584 NAMIBIA - Swakopmund Lighthouse
Swakopmund (German for "Mouth of the Swakop"), the fourth largest population centre in Namibia, is situated in the Namib desert, on the coast of western Namibia. Founded in 1892 as the main harbour for...
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1585 UNITED STATES (Utah) - The Needles in Canyonlands National Park
Canyonlands National Park is located in southeastern Utah, near the town of Moab, and preserves a colorful landscape eroded into countless canyons, mesas, and buttes by the Colorado River, the Green...
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1588 SAMOA - Candle-lit Beach Fale
The Samoan people are a Polynesian ethnic group of the Samoan Islands, which are divided between the independent country of Samoa (formerly Western Samoa) and American Samoa, an unincorporated...
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1589 AUSTRIA (Lower Austria) - Mayerling
Mayerling is a small village (pop: 200) situated on the Schwechat River, in the Wienerwald (Vienna woods), at 24km southwest of Vienna. In 1886 Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria, only son of Emperor Franz...
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1590 PORTUGAL (Lisbon) - Bairro da Sé in Lisbon
The municipality of Lisbon, the capital and the largest city of Portugal, included 53 freguesias (civil parishes) until November 2012, when a new law reduced the number of them to 24. Locally, the...
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1474, 1592 UNITED STATES (Tennessee / North Carolina) - Great Smoky Mountains...
1474 Tennessee / North Carolina - Map of Great Smoky Mountains National Park Posted on 01.03.2015, 18.05.2015Great Smoky Mountains National Park, the most visited national park in the United States,...
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1593 UNITED STATES (New York) - Execution Rocks Lighthouse
Located in the middle of Long Island Sound, on the border between New Rochelle and Sands Point, Execution Rocks Light stands 17m tall, with a white light flashing every 10 seconds, and is cosidered an...
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1594 TURKEY (Central Anatolia) - Göreme National Park and the Rock Sites of...
Göreme National Park and the Rock Sites of CappadociaFairy chimneys in Devrent valleyLocated on the central Anatolia plateau, in Cappadocia, within a volcanic landscape sculpted by erosion to form a...
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1595 ROMANIA (Bucharest) - Palace of the Parliament
Located in the historical and geographical center of Bucharest, on the Arsenal Hill, the Palace of the Parliament is the world's largest civilian building with an administrative function, the second...
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1596 MEXICO (Veracruz) - Ritual ceremony of the Voladores (UNESCO ICH)
Founded in the 13th century by the Totonacs, in the Sierra Papanteca range and on the Gulf of Mexico, Papantla is the heart of the Totonacapan region and still has strong communities of Totonacs who...
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0433-0436, 1597 ITALY (Lombardy) - Milan
1597 Milan - In clockwise: 1. Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II;2. Duomo di Milano (Milan Cathedral); 3. Teatro alla Scala; 4. Sforza CastlePosted on 27.12.2012, 21.05.2015Strategically placed at the...
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1598 UNITED STATES (Hawaii) - Nanue Falls in Hāmākua
Hāmākua is a district on the northeast coast of Hawaiʻi's Big Island (one of the six traditional districts of the island, known as moku), but also the name of the coastline in the region, the "Hāmākua...
View ArticleFRANCE / BELGIUM - Belfries of Belgium and France (UNESCO WHS)
The Belfries of Belgium and France are a group of 56 historical buildings designated by UNESCO as World Heritage Site, in recognition of an architectural manifestation of emerging civic independence...
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1599 UNITED STATES (Nevada) - Wild mustangs
I noted with surprise that quite a few people know that the Mustangs live in North America only by 500 years and come from domesticated horses. It's true that the wild horse (Equus ferus) existed in...
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1600 BURUNDI - Rusizi River
The Rusizi (also sometimes spelled Ruzizi) is a river, 117km long, that flows from Lake Kivu to Lake Tanganyika in Central Africa, descending from about 1,500m to about 770m above sea level over its...
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