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1601 BELGIUM (Antwerp) - Cathedral of Our Lady in Antwerp (UNESCO WHS)

Antwerp, the most populous city in Belgium, is located on the river Scheldt, linked to the North Sea by the Westerschelde estuary. It has long been an important city in the Low Countries, both...

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1602 DENMARK (Greenland) - Queen Margrethe II dressed in Greenlandic national...

Greenland - 70th birthday of the Queen Margrethe II, dressed in Greenlandic national costumeGreenland became a  Danish colony in 1814, and a part of the Danish Realm in 1953, as an autonomous country....

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1334, 1335, 1603 GERMANY (Berlin) - The Berlin Wall

1334 Berlin - Conrad Shumann overcoming, on 08.15.1961, the barbed wire at the Bernauer StrassePosted on 15.11.2014, 23.05.2015The Berlin Wall (German: Berliner Mauer) was undoubtedly the most powerful...

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1604 UNITED STATES (Colorado) - United States Air Force Academy

1604 Colorado Springs - United States Air Force Academy,Cadet Chapel and Cadet Honor Court with B-17 Flying Fortress and P-40 Warhawk memorialsThe United States Air Force Academy (USAFA), located...

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1605 COOK ISLANDS (Atiu) - Land of the birds

Atiu, also known as Enuamanu (meaning land of the birds), is an island 187 km northeast of Rarotonga, in the Southern Islands group of the Cook Islands. It is a raised volcanic island surrounded by a...

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1606 TONGA - A Philatelic Souvenir Postcard from the Friendly Islands

Tonga, officially the Kingdom of Tonga, is a Polynesian sovereign state and archipelago comprising 177 islands with a total surface area of about 750 square kilometres scattered over 700,000 square...

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1607 AUSTRALIA - The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge with their son, Prince George

Duke of Cambridge is a title which has been conferred upon members of the British royal family several times. It was first used as a designation for Charles Stuart (1660–1661), the eldest son of James,...

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1608 SWEDEN (Stockholm) - Birka and Hovgården (UNESCO WHS)

Gaming pieces from the grave 523 in Birka, 10th centuryDuring the Viking Age, Birka, on the island of Björkö (literally: "Birch Island"), was an important trading center between Ladoga (Aldeigja) and...

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1609 UNITED STATES (California) - Hotel del Coronado

Coronado ("the crowned one" in Spanish) is an affluent resort city located in San Diego County, across (and helping to form) San Diego Bay from downtown San Diego. It lies on geographic combination of...

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1610 PAPUA NEW GUINEA (Milne Bay) - A man from Trobriand Islands

The Trobriand Islands are an archipelago of coral atolls off the eastern coast of New Guinea. Most of the population of 12,000 indigenous inhabitants live on the main island of Kiriwina. Other major...

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1611 UNITED STATES (Colorado) - The map of State of Colorado

Bordered by Wyoming, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Utah, and Arizona at the Four Corners, Colorado is noted for its vivid landscape of mountains, forests, high plains, mesas, canyons,...

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1612, 1613 ROMANIA (Tulcea) - Sulina

1612 Sulina - Waterfront in winterLocated in Danube Delta, at the point where the Sulina branch of the Danube flows in the Black Sea, the town and free port Sulina is the easternmost point of Romania....

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1614 SPAIN (Canary Islands) - Traditional costume of Tenerife

Even if each Canary island has its own traditional costume, there is enough common characteristics. In other words, beyond the particularities of each, the items of the costume are the same, and the...

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1615 NAMIBIA - Windhoek

Located in central Namibia, in the Khomas Highland plateau area, Windhoek is the capital and largest city of the Namibia. The town developed at the site of a permanent spring known to the indigenous...

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1616 COOK ISLANDS (Atiu) - Ziona CICC Church

The first organised religion established on Atiu, in 1823, was that of the London Missionary Society. In later years, its name changed to Cook Islands Christian Church (CICC) and is the largest...

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1617 INDIA (National Capital Territory of Delhi) - Red Fort Complex (UNESCO WHS)

1617 The Red Fort Complex - The Lahore GateThe Red Fort Complex, now in the centre of Delhi, was built in 1648 as the palace fort of Shahjahanabad - the new capital of the fifth Mughal Emperor of...

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1618 POLAND (Masovia) - Belweder Palace in Warsaw

Located a few kilometers south of the Royal Castle in Warsaw, Belweder Palace is the residence of the President of the Republic of Poland,  Bronisław Komorowski. Built between 1819 and 1822, the...

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1619 MEXICO (Quintana Roo) - Aerial view of Cancún

Located on the northeast coast of the Yucatán Peninsula, in southeastern Mexico, Cancún is an important renowned tourist destination, just north of Mexico's Caribbean coast resort band known as the...

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1470, 1620 CONGO-BRAZZAVILLE - Oilpainting postcards

1470Posted on 27.02.2015, and 31.05.2015If the first postcard received from Republic of the Congo was a sand painting one, the second and the third one are oilpaintings. Anyway, I can say that in the...

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1621 TOGO - Koutammakou, the Land of the Batammariba (UNESCO WHS)

The Koutammakou landscape is home to the Batammariba (or Tammari people, also known as Somba) whose remarkable mud tower-houses (takienta) have come to be seen as a symbol of Togo. In this landscape,...

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