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...
View Article1602 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....
View Article1334, 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...
View Article1604 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...
View Article1605 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...
View Article1606 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...
View Article1607 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,...
View Article1608 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...
View Article1609 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...
View Article1610 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...
View Article1611 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,...
View Article1612, 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....
View Article1614 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...
View Article1615 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...
View Article1616 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...
View Article1617 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...
View Article1618 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...
View Article1619 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...
View Article1470, 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...
View Article1621 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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