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1834 CHILE (Antofagasta) - Paso de Jama in Altiplano
The Altiplano (the high plain), located in west-central South America, where the Andes are at their widest, is the most extensive area of high plateau on Earth outside of Tibet. Its bulk lies within...
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0339, 1835 ROMANIA (Sibiu / Braşov) - Villages with Fortified Churches in...
0339 Biertan Fortified ChurchPosted on 22.09.2012, 19.08.2015In the 12th and 13th centuries, simultaneous with the advancement of the Kingdom of Hungary's border to the east and south-eastern...
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1836 NETHERLANDS (Aruba) - Paseo Herencia Mall
Located in the area of Palm Beach, just walking distance from the high rise hotels, Paseo Herencia Mall is an old village style plaza surrounded by great shopping, dining and a state of the art cinema...
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1837 UNITED STATES (Connecticut) - Branford College (Yale University)
1837 Branford Court of Branford College towards Wrexham TowerBranford College is one of the 12 residential colleges at Yale University, the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United...
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1838 FRANCE (Wallis and Futuna) - The nature and the people
The Wallis and Futuna Islands are two groups of volcanic tropical islands in the southwestern Pacific Ocean, between Fiji and the Samoas. While flowers bloom in abundance on Wallis, deforestation has...
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1839 QATAR - Cooking pots in Souq Waqif in Doha
A souq is an open-air marketplace or commercial quarter in Middle Eastern and North African cities. Historically, they were held outside cities at locations where incoming caravans stopped and...
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1840 ROMANIA (Braşov) - Râşnov Citadel
Located at the foot of Postăvarul Massif, at the northern end of the Rucăr-Bran Pass, which link Wallachia and Burzenland (Transylvania), Râşnov (German: Rosenau) is known for its medieval citadel,...
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1841 UNITED KINGDOM (British Virgin Islands) - Cane Garden Bay in Tortola
Tortola is a mountainous island 19km long and 5km wide, the largest and most populated of the British Virgin Islands. Formed by volcanic activity, its highest peak is Mount Sage at 530m. Located on...
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1842 ETHIOPIA (Amhara) - Rock-Hewn Churches, Lalibela - Church of Saint...
In a mountainous region in the heart of Ethiopia (the second country which adopted Christianity, after Armenia, in the first half of the 4th century), at Lalibela, 11 medieval monolithic churches were...
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1843 UNITED KINGDOM (Bermuda) - A Bermuda Moongate
A Moongate is a circular opening in a garden wall that acts as a pedestrian passageway, and a traditional architectural element in Chinese gardens. The purpose of these gates is to serve as a very...
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1844 CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC - The map of the country
The Central African Republic is a landlocked country, bordered by Chad, Sudan, South Sudan, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Republic of the Congo, and Cameroon. Much of the country consists of flat...
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1845 UNITED STATES (Massachusetts) - Great Point Lighthouse in Nantucket
Located at 50km south of Cape Cod, the island Nantucket is a tourist destination and summer colony, which has home values among the highest in the US, even if is the least-populous county in...
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1846 FRANCE (French Guiana) - Hmong young girls from Cacao
Even if French Guiana has only 250,000 inhabitants, its ethnic diversity is outstanding. The main Asian communities are the Chinese and Hmong people from Laos. The Hmong are an ethnic group from the...
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1847 ROMANIA (Sibiu) - Mălâncrav fortified church
The history of Mălâncrav fortified church, as also of the commune, is related to the Apafi family, upper class noble landowners from Transylvania . Because it was a latifundium placed in the midst of...
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1533, 1848 KAZAKHSTAN - Petroglyphs within the Archaeological Landscape of...
1533 Petroglyphs of Tamgaly (1)Posted on 22.04.2015, 24.08.2015Set around the lush Tamgaly Gorge, amidst the vast, arid Chu-Ili mountains, Tamgaly (which in Kazakh means "painted or marked place") is a...
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1849 DOMINICAN REPUBLIC - A boy on his donkey
Even if Dominican Republic is the largest economy in the Caribbean and Central American region, a lot of the population lives away from towns, in what is commonly referred to as “el campo” or the...
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1850 UNITED KINGDOM (Cayman Islands) - Brac Reef Beach on Cayman Brac
Cayman Brac is one of the three islands which forms Cayman Islands, named after this prominent feature, as "brac" is a Gaelic name for a bluff. Located on the South Shore of Cayman Brac with 300m of...
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1851 SINGAPORE - The Battle Box under Fort Canning
Given its position in the western Pacific, Singapore had long been recognised as being strategically important for the Royal Navy to counter the growing influence of the Japanese, who were regarded as...
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1852 UNITED KINGDOM (England) - The map of Cornwall
Cornwall is a ceremonial county of England, located in a peninsula bordered by the Celtic Sea, the English Channel, and the county of Devon, over the River Tamar. It has a population of 536,000, its...
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1853 ITALY (Lombardy) - Teatro alla Scala in Milan
La Scala (abbreviation for Teatro alla Scala) is a famous opera house in Milan, inaugurated on 3 August 1778, and originally known as the New Royal-Ducal Theatre alla Scala (Nuovo Regio Ducale Teatro...
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