2485 GERMANY / SWITZERLAND / AUSTRIA - The map of Lake Constance
Lake Constance (German: Bodensee) is a lake on the Rhine at the northern foot of the Alps, in Germany, Switzerland and Austria, and consists of three bodies of water: the Obersee (Upper Lake), the...
View Article2486 POLAND (Pomerania) - The traditional Kashubian folk costume
Kashubians (Kashubian: Kaszëbi; Polish: Kaszubi; German: Kaschuben) are a West Slavic ethnic group in Pomerelia, a historical region in northern Poland, located on the southern shore of the Baltic Sea...
View Article2487 ITALY (Veneto) - Venice and its Lagoon (UNESCO WHS)
2487 Venice: A bridge Over A Small Canal; Rialto Bridge; Bridge of Sighs; St Mark's Square; St Mark's BasilicaSpread over 118 small islands, separated by canals and linked by bridges, in the marshy...
View Article0428, 2488 GERMANY (Berlin) - Images of Berlin
2488 Berlin: 1. Siegessäule (Victory Column); 2. Art Deco stairs;3. A view with new buildings; 4. Brandenburger Tor (Brandenburg Gate); 5. River Spree; 8. Reichstagsgebäude (Reichstag Building);Posted...
View Article2489 ANDORRA - The map of the country
The buffer zones situated between two great powers are constantly exposed to invasions and excesses of all kinds. Principality of Andorra, located in the eastern Pyrenees mountains and bordered by...
View Article2491 FRANCE (Île-de-France) - Paris, Banks of the Seine - Conciergerie and...
The Conciergerie is a former prison, located on the west of the Île de la Cité (Island of the City) presently mostly used for law courts. It was part of the Palais de la Cité, originally the site of a...
View Article2492 URUGUAY - Gaucho Homeland Festival
In its historical sense a gaucho was "A mestizo who, in the 18th and 19th centuries, inhabited Argentina, Uruguay and Rio Grande do Sul in Brazil". Today, in Argentina and Uruguay, a gaucho is "A...
View Article2493 ROMANIA (Ilfov) - Bucharest Henri Coandă International Airport
2493 Bucharest Otopeni International Airport in 1970'sBucharest Henri Coandă International Airport is Romania's busiest international airport, and it is located in Otopeni, 16.5km north of Bucharest's...
View Article2494 CANADA (Quebec) - Saint Joseph's Oratory in Montreal
Saint Joseph's Oratory of Mount Royal is a Roman Catholic minor basilica on Westmount Summit, and the largest church in Canada. In 1904, Saint André Bessette, member of the Congregation of Holy Cross,...
View Article2495 JAPAN (Kantō) - The Art of Living
2495 An interior of a house from Tokyo Area in 1970In October 1945, when he arrived in Tokyo as part of the Allied forces occupying Japan, Charles Egbert Tuttle, Jr. didn't know that this experience...
View Article2496 CANADA (Ontario) - Spirit of Windsor
Located on the southern shore of the Detroit River (which flows from Lake St. Clair to Lake Erie), directly across the river from Detroit (Michigan), Windsor is the southernmost city in Canada. It is...
View Article2497 FRANCE (Alsace-Champagne-Ardenne-Lorraine) - Lorraine
Lorraine is a cultural and historical region in north-eastern France, which has borders with three other countries: Belgium (Wallonia), Luxembourg, and Germany (Saarland, Rhineland-Palatinate). Its...
View Article2498, 2499 ROMANIA (Arad) - Arad
2498 Arad: 1. The Romanian Orthodox Cathedral; 2. The Administrative Palace; 3. The Palace of CultureHistorically situated in the region of Crişana, and having recently extended on the left bank of the...
View Article2500 CANADA (Alberta) - The Cree
The Cree (autonym: nehiyawak) are the most populous and widely distributed First Nations in Canada, with over 317,000 members (2015) living in the Subarctic region from Alberta to Quebec, as well as...
View Article2501 CANADA (Quebec) - Montreal International Jazz Festival
The Montreal International Jazz Festival takes place at 10 free outdoor stages and 10 indoor concert halls, and holds the 2004 Guinness World Record as the world's largest jazz festival. Every year, at...
View Article0957, 2502 FRANCE (Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes) - Dombes
0957 DombesPosted on 10.01.2014, 29.04.2016 The Dombes is an area in South-Eastern France, bounded by the rivers Saône, Rhône, and Ain, which forms an undulating plateau with a slight slope towards the...
View Article2503 INDIA (Karnataka) - A letter box in Dharwad
Department of Posts, trading as India Post, is a government-operated postal system in India. Generally referred to within India as "the post office", it is the most widely distributed postal system in...
View Article2504 RUSSIA (Murmansk Oblast) - The city of Murmansk
2504 A view of the MurmanskMurmansk is a port city located in the extreme northwest part of Russia, on the Kola Bay, an inlet of the Barents Sea on the northern shore of the Kola Peninsula, close to...
View Article2505 UNITED STATES (New York) - Taxicabs of New York City
The taxicabs of New York City are widely recognized icons of the city, come in two varieties: yellow and green. Taxis painted canary yellow (medallion taxis) are able to pick up passengers anywhere in...
View Article2506 AZERBAIJAN (Baku) - Walled City of Baku with the Shirvanshah's Palace...
Rising from the south shore of the Absheron Peninsula at the western edge of the Caspian Sea, in Caucasus region, the Walled City of Baku was founded on a site inhabited since the Palaeolithic period....
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