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0803 LAOS - The map
Placed between Myanmar, China, Vietnam, Cambodia and Thailand, Laos is the only landlocked country in Southeast Asia, consists mostly of mountains, with some plains and plateaus, and has a tropical...
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0804 MEXICO (Federal District) - Historic Centre of Mexico City and...
Built in the 16th century on the ruins of Tenochtitlan, the old Aztec capital, as the capital of New Spain, Mexico City, with its chequerboard layout, the regular spacing of its plazas and streets, and...
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0805 UNITED STATES (Arizona) - An old Navajo woman and his granddaughter
The Navajo are the largest federally recognized tribe of the United States, with more then 300,000 members, and the Navajo Nation constitutes an independent governmental body, which manages the Navajo...
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0167 & 0806 NETHERLANDS (North Holland) - The island of Europe's last...
Posted on 08.04.2012 and completed on 01.09.2013Until to receive this postcard, I didn't know anything about the Texel island, the largest and most populated of the Frisian Islands in the Wadden Sea...
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0807 GREECE (South Aegean) - Delos (UNESCO WHS)
The island of Delos, located near the centre of the Cyclades archipelago, is, without doubt, one of the most important mythological, historical and archaeological sites in Greece, bearing traces of the...
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0808 INDIA (Tamil Nandu) - Bharathanatyam dance
Bharatanatyam is a classical Indian dance form, popular chiefly in the state of Tamil Nadu, which denotes various 19th- and 20th-century reconstructions of Sadir, the art of temple dancers called...
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0809 SPAIN (Catalonia) - Works of Antoni Gaudí - Park Güell (UNESCO WHS)
Built betwen 1900 and 1914, after Gaudí's plans, on the hill of El Carmel in the Gràcia district of Barcelona, Park Güell is even today one of the largest architectural works in south Europe, and one...
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0841 CHILE - La Cueca
By Decree No. 23 published in the Official Journal on 18 September 1979, cueca became the national dance of Chile. Among other arguments, the main was that within the wide range of Chilean folk dances,...
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0058, 0151, 0842 CHINA (Shanxi / Inner Mongolia / Hebei) - The Great Wall...
China (and also India) seems to use another scale than Europe. Whether it comes to population, surface, the height of the mountains, the extent of the forests, the rivers flow rate or God knows what...
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0843 RUSSIA (Republic of Karelia) - Railroad bridge across the Shuya River
Shuya (Suojoki in Finnish) is a small river (has only 194km in length) and flows out of Lake Suoyarvi through Lake Logmozero into Lake Onega. It freezes up in November - January and stays icebound...
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0844 ITALY (Lombardy) - Isola Bella
Known for its Mediterranean-like climate and for its beauty, Lago Maggiore (Greater Lake), one of the glacial lakes in Lombardy, which spans also in the canton of Ticino (Switzerland), is the second...
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0845 VENEZUELA (Nueva Esparta) - The fortress La Galera, in Juan Griego
Juan Griego, the most northern port in Venezuela, located on the northern side of Margarita Island, in the Caribbean Sea, was named after Juan the Greek, a navigator born in Seville in the early 16th...
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0846 RUSSIA (Moscow Oblast) - The mansion house in Marfino
Marfino, a rural locality located several kilometers northeast of the town of Lobnya, on the right bank of the Ucha River, is notable for an old aristocratic estate, of which main house (sometimes...
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0847 PHILIPPINES (Luzon) - An Ifugao dance
Ifugao is a landlocked province in the Cordillera Administrative Region in Luzon, covering a mountainous region characterized by rugged terrain, river valleys, and massive forests, and is famous for...
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0848 MONTENEGRO (Kotor) - Natural and Culturo-Historical Region of Kotor...
Located at the deepest end of Boka Kotorska (Bay of Kotor), in a triangle bordered by Adriatic Sea, the river Skurda and St. John hill, Kotor has a long history, extended until the Illyrian times. The...
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0649 & 0849 CROATIA (Šibenik-Knin) - The Cathedral of St James in Šibenik...
Posted on 17.05.2013 and completed on 26.10.2013Šibenik, located on the Dalmatian coast, distinguishes from the majority of the settlements situated along the Adriatic coast (established by Greeks,...
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0850 NIGERIA - Durbar Festival
Nigeria has many festivals that date back to the time before the arrival of the major religions, and which are still occasions for masquerade and dance. The local festivals cover an enormous range of...
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0196 & 0851 SAN MARINO - Historic Centre and Mount Titano (UNESCO WHS)
Posted on 06.05.2012 and completed on 28.10.2013Although about 2 million tourists visit annually Serenissima Repubblica di San Marino, is quite difficult to get a postcard from this small state...
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0852 CHILE - Qhapaq Ñan, the Great Inca Road
It is known that the Inca road system was the most extensive and advanced transportation system in pre-Columbian South America. The network was based on two north-south roads with numerous branches,...
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0853 International Postcard Week
A few days ago I received from Brenda Perez (the owner of the wonderful blog 9teen87spostcards) this collectible postcard, edited (in only 250 copies) for the first ever International Postcard Week...
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