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2272 NETHERLANDS (Netherlands / North Holland) - Amsterdam Centraal railway...
Station Amsterdam Centraal is the largest railway station of Amsterdam, and the second-busiest railway station in the country after Utrecht Centraal. It was designed by Dutch architect Pierre Cuypers...
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2273 TAIWAN - Graphic art of tin-can
As it is known, pop art often takes imagery that is currently in use in advertising. Product labeling and logos figure prominently in the imagery chosen by pop artists, seen in the labels of Campbell's...
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1783, 2118, 2224, 2273 The map and the flags of the countries and territories...
1783 The map and the flags of the countries and territoriesin Caribbean (1)Posted on 26.07.2015, 13.12.2015, 17.01.2016, 07.02.2016The Caribbean is a region that consists of the Caribbean Sea, its...
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2274 MAURITANIA - The mosques of Nouakchott
2274 Nouakchott: Grand Mosque; Moroccan Mosque; Friday Mosque.The people of Mauritania are nearly all adherents of Sunni Islam of Maliki school of jurisprudence, influenced with Sufism, and because of...
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2275 INDIA (West Bengal) - Nabanna
Nabanna (New Crop) is a Bengali harvest celebration celebrated with food, dance and music in Bangladesh and in the Indian State of West Bengal. It is one of the numerous festivals that gave the name...
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2276 FRANCE (Normandy) - The store À Jeanne D'Arc in Nacqueville before WWII
The village of Nacqueville was originally about 1 km inland, with only a few fishing huts on the long beach. In the beginning of the 20th century, the coastal strip was developed as a resort, along...
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2277 UNITED STATES (Midway Islands) - The aerial view of the islands
Midway Islands is an atoll in the North Pacific Ocean, located roughly equidistant between North America and Asia, as its name suggests. It is near the northwestern end of the Hawaiian archipelago,...
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2278 ROMANIA (Prahova) - Caraiman Monastery in Buşteni
Situated in town Buşteni, at the foot of the massif Caraiman, in a glade which has in its center a fir tree with a unique shape, the Monastery Caraiman is an orthodox monastery, founded in 1998 at the...
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2279 UNITED STATES (South Carolina) - Edmondston-Alston House in Charleston
The Edmondston-Alston House is built on the foundation ruins of Fort Mechanic that was at this location in the later part of the 18th century. Shipping merchant Charles Edmondston, a Scottish immigrant...
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2280 FRANCE (Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes) - Débats-Rivière-d'Orpra
Débats-Rivière-d'Orpra is a small and quiet village with only 162 inhabitants, located in the Loire department, at 110 km of Lyon. On the village's territory the Anzon river flows into Lignon du Forez,...
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0075, 0091, 2281 FINLAND (Uusimaa) - The trams of Helsinki
2281 Tram HKL 184 on line 9, in Helsinki Senate Square, on 20.04.1972Posted on 16.12.2011, 04.01.2012, 10.02.2016The Helsinki system is one of the oldest electrified tram networks in the world (1891),...
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2282 RUSSIA (Vologda Oblast) - A log windmill in 1909
A major component of the Volga-Baltic Waterway (formerly called the Mariinsk Canal System), linking Saint Petersburg (therefore the Baltic Sea) with the Volga River basin, is the Sheksna River, which...
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2283 BELIZE - Caracol Mayan Site
Caracol (which means "snail" in spanish) is the name given in 1938 by the british archaeological commissioner A. H. Anderson to a large ancient Maya archaeological site, located on the Vaca Plateau at...
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2284 UNITED STATES (Iowa) - Iowa map
Located in the Midwestern United States, between Wisconsin, Illinois, Missouri, Nebraska, South Dakota, and Minnesota, Iowa derives its name from the Ioway people, one of the many Native American...
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2285 FRANCE (Languedoc-Roussillon-Midi-Pyrénées) - Landscape from Cevennes
The Cévennes are a range of mountains in south-central France, part of the Massif Central. They run from southwest (Cause Noire) to northeast (Monts du Vivarais), with the highest point being the Mont...
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2286 SOUTH AFRICA - The people and their traditions
South Africa is a nation of about 55 million (2016) people of diverse origins, cultures, languages, and religions. However by far the major part of the population (76.4% in 2011) classifies itself as...
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1081-1082, 2287-2288 UNITED KINGDOM (Bermuda) - Bermuda map and snapshots
1081 Bermuda map (1)Posted on 20.05.2014, 13.02.2016Bermuda is a group of low-forming islands (181, the largest being Main Island) located in the North Atlantic Ocean, at about 1,030km from Cape...
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2289 ROMANIA (Constanţa) - Saturn resort
Saturn is not only a Roman agricultural deity and the sixth planet from the Sun, but also one of the six summer resorts located in area Comorova, on the Romanian coast of the Black Sea, at 43 km from...
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2290 UNITED KINGDOM (England) - Anne Hathaway's Cottage and Gardens
Anne Hathaway's Cottage is a twelve-roomed farmhouse where Anne Hathaway, the wife of William Shakespeare, lived as a child in the hamlet of Shottery, Warwickshire, England, about 1.6km west of...
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2291 LEBANON - Tyre (UNESCO WHS)
Located on the southern coast of Lebanon, 83 km south of Beirut, the antique town of Tyre was the great Phoenician city that reigned over the seas and founded prosperous colonies such as Cadiz and...
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