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0736 BULGARIA (Burgas) - The old town Sozopol
In 2012 I spent my vacation in Nessebar, on the southern Bulgarian Black Sea Coast, and with this occasion I visited also Sozopol, situated 70 km further south (on the road, on the shores of the Gulf...
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0737 BELGIUM (West Flanders) - Dunes Church of Our Lady in Koksijde
Koksijde (Coxyde in French) is a municipality located in the Flemish province of West Flanders, on the North Sea coast, near the border with France, at only 30km from Dunkirk. Among important sights of...
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0738 OMAN - A traditional craftsman
Oman is as much a product of geography and history as of culture and economic change, so even if it shares many of the cultural characteristics of its Arab neighbours, particularly of those in the...
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0739 MOROCCO (Marrakech-Tensift-El Haouz) - Medina of Marrakesh - Majorelle...
Founded in 1062 AD by Abu Bakr ibn Umar, chieftain and second cousin of the Almoravid king Yusuf ibn Tashfin, Marrakesh remained a political, economic and cultural centre for a long period, being even...
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0740 SWITZERLAND (Bern) - Chästeilet in Bernese Oberland
In the 15th century, the people living north of the Alps began to use rennet (a substance from the stomach of a cow) to make hard cheeses, much more durable than the cottage cheese. This was the...
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0741 INDONESIA (Java) - Prajurit Wirobrojo, the Sultan's of Yogyakarta...
Located on the island of Java, Yogyakarta is the capital of the region with the same name, the only one in Indonesia still ruled by a pre-colonial monarchy, the Sultan of Yogyakarta, who serves as the...
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0742 CZECH REPUBLIC (Prague) - The God with hieroglyph "L"
In the postcard is a funerary urn representing the God with hieroglyph "L", discovered at Monte Albán, a large pre-Columbian archaeological site located in Mexico and designated a World Heritage Site...
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0102 & 0743 POLAND (Lesser Poland) - Historic Centre of Kraków (UNESCO WHS)
Posted on 20.01.2012 and completed on 16.07.2013To try to talk about the history of Poland in a single paragraph would be a haphazard approach and an evidence of superficiality. Few countries have...
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0744 MALAYSIA (Kuala Lumpur) - Petaling Street
Petaling Street (Jalan Petaling), the Chinatown of Kuala Lumpur, is the best place to shop for counterfeit branded products and for trying out a large selection of local Chinese cuisine. This doesn't...
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0745 INDONESIA (Western New Guinea) - Dani Tribe in Baliem Valley
The Dani (also spelled Ndani) are a people from the Grand Valley of the Baliem River, a broad, temperate plain lying 1.800m above the tropical jungles of Papua, of the island of New Guinea. They are...
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0746 CANADA (Ontario) - Rideau Canal (UNESCO WHS)
The Rideau Canal, also known as the Rideau Waterway, connects the city of Ottawa on the Ottawa River with the city of Kingston, on Lake Ontario, using sections of major rivers, including the Rideau and...
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0747 CROATIA (Primorje-Gorski Kotar) - Saint Vitus Cathedral in Rijeka
Founded by Celts as Tarsatica and became municipium under the Romans as Flumen, the current city Rijeka was ruled successively, from the 5th century onwards, by the Ostrogoths, the Byzantines, the...
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0748 GERMANY (Hesse) - Hundertwasserhaus Waldspirale in Darmstadt
If Die Grüne Zitadelle von Magdeburg (The Green Citadel of Magdeburg) has been started a year before the death of Friedensreich Hundertwasser, Hundertwasserhaus Waldspirale (the Wooded Spiral) was...
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0749 MOROCCO - Traditional clothes and musical instruments
Even if the 99.1% of the Moroccans have an Arab and / or Berber ethnic background (therefore the population has a high degree of homogeneity), the Moroccan folklore is very rich and diverse, and I dare...
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0750 JAPAN (Kantō) - Shinjuku, Tokyo
Integrated into Tokyo City in 1920, Shinjuku (New Lodge) became in 1947 one of the 23 special wards of Tokyo, that together make up the core and the most populous part of Tokyo Metropolis. It's a major...
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0751 GERMANY (Baden-Württemberg) - The Historical Merchants Hall in Freiburg...
Founded in 1120 as a free market town on the western edge of the Black Forest, in the Upper Rhine Plain, on the Dreisam river, at the foot of the hill Schlossberg, Freiburg reached in 14th century one...
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0752 SWITZERLAND (Ticino) - Three Castles, Defensive Wall and Ramparts of the...
Because occupies an privileged geographic location in the Alps, with acces to the Po valley southward, to the high alpine passes of Nufenen, St. Gotthard, Lukmanier and San Bernardino northward, and to...
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0753 UNITED STATES (Pennsylvania) - Independence Hall (UNESCO WHS)
Probably that none of the delegates from the thirteen colonies who signed the Declaration of Independence in 1776 in Philadelphia, in statehouse of Pennsylvania (now known as Independence Hall), ever...
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0754 FRANCE (Brittany) - Dance Gwenedour of Pays Pourlet
Once, the Celts formed the largest group of peoples in Europe, covering a huge territory (from Ireland to Asia Minor, and from Iberian Peninsula to the South of Germany), and their contribution to the...
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0123, 0225 & 0755 LITHUANIA (Aukštaitija) - Trakai Historical National Park
Posted on 13.02.2012 and completed on 27.05.2012, and on 20.07.2013Along the history, many territories located today in Poland, Lithuania, Ukraine and Belarus were owned successively by one or other of...
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