1642 OMAN - Traditional fishing boat in Musandam
The Musandam peninsula juts into the Strait of Hormuz (the narrow entry into the Persian Gulf, from the Arabian Peninsula) and is an exclave of Oman, separated from the rest of the country by the...
View Article1643 SOUTH AFRICA - Cape Point
Cape Point is a promontory at the southeast corner of the Cape Peninsula, which is a mountainous and scenic landform that runs north-south for about thirty kilometres at the extreme southwestern tip of...
View Article1644 GREECE (East Macedonia and Thrace) - The war memorial in Komotini
Built on the Thracian plain, near the foothills of the Rhodope Mountains, Komotini is one of the main administrative, financial and cultural centers of northeastern Greece and also a major agricultural...
View Article1645 RUSSIA (Republic of Karelia) - Saint Peter's Church in Martsialnye Vody
Located at 50km away from Petrozavodsk, the capital of Republic of Karelia, Martsialnye Vody (The Waters of Mars) is the oldest spa in Russia, founded by Peter the Great in 1714 and visited by the Tsar...
View Article1646 BELGIUM - The map of the country
Belgium is a federalmonarchy in Western Europe, which shares borders with France, Germany, Luxembourg and the Netherlands. Straddling the cultural boundary between Germanic and Latin Europe, Belgium is...
View Article1647 UNITED STATES (Arizona / Nevada) - Hoover Dam
Hoover Dam is a concrete arch-gravity dam in the Black Canyon of the Colorado River, on the border between Arizona and Nevada. It was constructed between 1931 and 1936 and was dedicated on September...
View Article1648 TUNISIA (Kairouan) - A woman with sefseri
The majority (99%) of modern Tunisians are Arabized Berber or Arab-Berber, and nearly all are Muslims , so that the traditional clothing, especially that of the women, comply the strict canons of this...
View Article1649 UNITED KINGDOM (Turks and Caicos Islands) - Wild donkeys in Salt Cay
The Salt Cay, the second largest and southernmost inhabited island in the Turks and Caicos Islands, is, according to the official website, "home to 101 friendly souls rich in heritage and Caribbean...
View Article1650 THAILAND (Bangkok) - Temple of the Reclining Buddha
Named after a monastery in India where Buddha is believed to have lived, Wat Pho (known also as the Temple of the Reclining Buddha), is a Buddhist temple in Phra Nakhon district, Bangkok, directly...
View Article1651 ITALY (Piedmont / Lombardy) - Sacri Monti of Piedmont and Lombardy...
The nine Sacri Monti (Sacred Mountains) of northern Italy are groups of chapels and other architectural features created in the late 16th and 17th centuries and dedicated to different aspects of the...
View Article1652 RUSSIA (Moscow) - International Military Tattoo “Spasskaya Tower” 2014
A tattoo is a military performance of music or display of armed forces in general. The term comes from the early 17th century Dutch phrase doe den tap toe ("turn off the tap"), a signal sounded by...
View Article1653-1655 UNITED STATES (Louisiana) - Royal Street in French Quarter, New...
1653 New Orleans - Royal Street in French QuarterThe French Quarter (Vieux Carré) is the oldest neighborhood in the city of New Orleans, located in southeastern Louisiana, straddling the Mississippi...
View Article1656 POLAND (Masovia) - The Church of the Holy Spirit in Warsaw New Town
Warsaw's New Town is a neighbourhood dating from the 15th century, lying just north of the Old Town and connected to it by Freta Street, which begins at the Barbican. Like the Old Town, the New Town...
View Article1657 ITALY (Tuscany) - La Palazzina dei Mulini in Elba
Located in the Tyrrhenian Sea, at about 50km east of the French island of Corsica and 20km from the coastal town of Piombino, Elba is the largest island of the Tuscan Archipelago and the third largest...
View Article1658 NAMIBIA - Dias Point Lighthouse in Lüderitz
Lüderitz is a harbour town in southwest Namibia, lying on one of the least hospitable coasts in Africa, and developed around Robert Harbour and Shark Island. The town was founded in 1883, when Angra...
View Article0805, 1659, 1660 UNITED STATES (Arizona / Utah / New Mexico) - The Great...
0805 An old Navajo woman and his granddaughterPosted on 31.08.2013, 12.06.2015The Navajo are the largest federally recognized tribe of the United States, with more then 300,000 members, and the Navajo...
View Article1662 ROMANIA (Covasna) - The Székely National Museum in Sfântu Gheorghe
The Székelys are a subgroup of the Hungarian people living mostly in the valleys and hills of the Eastern Carpathian Mountains, corresponding to the present-day Harghita, Covasna, and parts of Mureş...
View Article1663 UNITED KINGDOM (Bermuda) - Traffic policeman at Heyl's corner, Hamilton
The road map of Hamilton, the capital city of Bermuda, looks like a matrix, with streets from East to West crisscrossed by roads going from South to North. Among the main streets that run east to west...
View Article1664 INDIA (National Capital Territory of Delhi) - Jama Masjid in Delhi
The Masjid-i Jahān-Numā, commonly known as the Jama Masjid of Delhi, is the largest mosque in India (about 25,000 people can pray in the courtyard at a time). Actually, Jama Masjid is a general term...
View Article1665 GAMBIA - Banjul
Even if it has only about 35,000 inhabitants, Banjul, formerly known as Bathurst, is the capital of the Gambia. Located on St Mary's Island (Banjul Island), where the Gambia River enters the Atlantic...
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