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0722 & 0756 SWEDEN (Stockholm) - Stockholm City Hall
Posted on 06.07.2013 and completed on 20.07.2013Located on the eastern tip of Kungsholmen island, Stockholm City Hall (Stadshuset in Swedish) is the building of the Municipal Council and houses offices...
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0757 CHINA (Sichuan) - Two men from the Sichuan province
This postcard captures an image from an ancient town in the Sichuan province, located in the southwest of the country, between Himalayas, Qinling Range and mountainous areas of Yunnan, and crossed by...
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0497 & 0758 BRAZIL (Minas Gerais) - Sanctuary of Bom Jesus do Congonhas...
Posted on 06.02.2013 and completed on 22.07.2013Some people, when get from life more than they deserved, think should thank to someone, more precisely to give, in one form or another, a part of what...
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0071 & 0759 SINGAPORE - The Downtown Core
Posted on 14.12.2011 and completed on 22.07.2013In these two postcards is The Downtown Core of Singapore, which surrounds the mouth of the Singapore River and southeastern portion of its watershed, and...
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0760 SPAIN (Murcia) - The roman theatre in Cartagena
Founded by Phoenicians as Qart Hadasht (New City) around 227 BC, the city known in nowadays as Cartagena lived its heyday during the Roman Empire (under the name Carthago Nova or Carthago Spartaria),...
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0761 KYRGYZSTAN - Komuz player in national clothes
The komuz (qomuz), an ancient fretless string instrument, is the best-known national instrument and one of the better-known Kyrgyz national symbols. It is generally made from a single piece of wood...
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0762 UNITED KINGDOM (England) - Canterbury Cathedral, St. Augustine's Abbey,...
In 597 arrived in the Anglo-SaxonKingdom of KentSaint Augustine, with 40 monks and some Frankish priests, sent by Pope to ChristianizeBretwalda (King) Æthelberht, who was married a Christian princess,...
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0763 THAILAND (Buriram) - Prasat Hin Muang Tum
Prasat Hin Muang Tum (in translation, according to some sources "stone castle of the humble city", and to others "low land castle") is a 1,000 years old Khmer temple complex, located in North East...
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0764 INDIA (Sikkim) - Kangchenjunga
Gaurav, who send me this postcard, say that depicts K2, the second-highest mountain on Earth, after Mount Everest, but it isn't so. As it is written on the postcard, but also how looks the peak, it's...
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0765 ITALY (Sicily) - Mount Etna (UNESCO WHS)
As one of the world’s most active and iconic volcanoes, and also as an outstanding example of ongoing geological processes and volcanic landforms, Mount Etna was one of the 19 sites added to the World...
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0169, 0646, 0647, 0766 POLAND (Mazovia) - Historic Centre of Warsaw (UNESCO WHS)
Posted on 11.04.2012 and completed on 14.05.2013 and on 25.07.2013The legend attributes the Warsaw name to a fisherman Wars and his wife Sawa, a mermaid who lived in the Vistula River and who Wars fell...
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0767 NEW ZEALAND (South Island) - Moeraki Boulders
The Moeraki Boulders are unusually large and spherical boulders lying along Koekohe Beach, at a place named Kumara, midway between Hampden and Moeraki townships in North Otago. According to Maori...
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0768 FRANCE (Brittany) - La Vieille
The Pointe du Raz (Beg ar Raz in Breton language) is a promontory that extends into the Atlantic from western Brittany, and, even if it isn't the westernmost extent of France (that would be Pointe de...
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0769, 0770 JAPAN (Chūgoku) - Museum of Folkcraft in Kurashiki
Kurashiki is one of Japan's great old merchant towns, located along a scenic canal at the foot of Mount Tsurugata, and its white-walled storehouses escaped WWII largely unscathed, are beautifully...
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0771 BOLIVIA (La Paz) - La Paz
On his full name Nuestra Señora de La Paz (Our Lady of Peace), the administrative capital of Bolivia is located in the western part of the country, at an elevation of roughly 3,650m above sea level,...
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0772 FINLAND (Ostrobothnia) - Kvarken Archipelago (UNESCO WHS)
Because "affords outstanding opportunities for the understanding of the important processes that formed the glaciated and land uplift areas of the Earth's surface", the Kvarken Archipelago (Finland)...
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0773 SWITZERLAND (Bern) - Old City of Bern (UNESCO WHS)
The city of Bern, Bundesstadt (federal city, de facto capital) of Switzerland since 1848, was founded in 1191 and grew to become the biggest aristocratic city-state north of the Alps and a major power...
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0093, 0223 & 0774 UNITED KINGDOM (England) - Stonehenge (UNESCO WHS)
Posted on 08.01.2012, and completed on 26.05.2012 and 30.07.2013I don't know if Stonehenge is the most important megalithic construction wich surviving the history, but certainly is the best known and...
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0775 GERMANY (North Rhine-Westphalia) - Glaselefant in Hamm
Founded on 1226 by Count Adolf I of the Mark, Hamm was member of the Hanseatic League, and in 15th century became one of the most powerful towns in the region. Ham means "corner" in the old Low German...
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0776 FRANCE (Corsica) - Calanche of Piana (UNESCO WHS)
After longer or shorter periods of time when was occupied successively by Carthaginians, ancient Greeks, Etruscans, Romans, Vandals, Visigoths, Saracens, Lombards, and Franks, island of Corsica,...
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