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0875 AUSTRALIA - Map and flag
Considered a continent because sit on its own tectonic plate, but also an island, because is separated from all other continents by water, Australia is ocupied of a single country, officially named the...
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0876 CHINA (Anhui) - Watching a performance
Because the man on the postcard 730 is from Anhui Province, and this postcard refers also to Water Regions, I suppose that these elders are from the same region. After their facial expressions, very...
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0877 ARGENTINA (Mendoza) - Puente del Inca
Puente del Inca (The Inca's Bridge) isn't a construction of the Incas, but a natural arch that forms a bridge over the Vacas River, a tributary of the Mendoza River. Puente del Inca is also the name of...
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0879 RUSSIA (Republic of Karelia) - Kizhi Pogost (UNESCO WHS)
The term pogost has several meanings in the Russian language, but initial appoint a coaching inn for princes and ecclesiastics. It is assumed that originally pogosts were rural communities on the...
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0880 GUATEMALA (Petén) - Tikal National Park (UNESCO WHS)
Tikal is one of the largest archaeological sites of the Maya civilization, and how could it be otherwise, since on its apogee (ca. 200 to 900 AD) this city dominated much of the Maya region, even...
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0881 ROMANIA (Suceava) - Map of Gura Humorului
Located on the eastern boundary of Obcinile Bucovinei ("obcini" means ridges extend, parallel, gentle, separated by parallel valleys), in Humor Depression, at the confluence of Humor and Moldova...
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0882 UNITED STATES (New York) - Montauk Point Light
Located in Montauk Point State Park, at the easternmost point of Long Island, in the hamlet of Montauk, on Turtle Hill, Montauk Light was the first lighthouse in New York State. In nowadays is the...
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0883 FINLAND - A lake at dawn
I received this postcard thanks to a swap within a group of friends on the topic "yellow". Couldn't be a more appropriate image, with intense colors, hot, reminiscent of summer, for this gloomy winter...
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0884 CZECH REPUBLIC (South Moravia) - Tugendhat Villa in Brno (UNESCO WHS)
Built between 1928-1930 in the wealthy neighbourhood of Černá Pole in Brno for the Jewish factory-owner Fritz Tugendhat by the architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (1886-1969), subsequently the last...
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0885 GUADELOUPE - Boy with lobsters
From what I understand, Guadeloupe's economy, based on tourism, agriculture, light industry and service, depends on two factors, it's true, for different reasons: France (for subsidies and imports),...
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0886 FRANCE (Midi-Pyrénées) - Episcopal City of Albi (UNESCO WHS)
Located on the River Tarn, in Languedoc, Albi was inhabited since the Bronze Age, but began to develop only in 11th century, in 1040 being built the Pont Vieux (Old Bridge), and new quarters. The city...
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0887 JAPAN - Patriarch Ainu of Shinto Ritual
Ainu (in historical texts Ezo), an indigenous people living in Japan (Hokkaidō island) and Russia (Sakhalin and the Kuril Islands), is one of the most mysterious ethnic groups in the world. They are...
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0888 FRANCE (Languedoc-Roussillon) - Pont du Gard (UNESCO WHS)
Built shortly before the Christian era to allow the aqueduct of Nîmes (which is almost 50 km long) to cross the Gardon River, the Pont du Gard is the highest of all Roman aqueduct bridges and is the...
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0889 CROATIA (Zagreb) - A girl in traditional clothes and Zagreb Cathedral
In the center of the postcard can be seen the two spires of the Zagreb Cathedral, dedicated to the Assumption of Mary and to kings Saint Stephen and Saint Ladislaus. It is typically Gothic, and is the...
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0890 URUGUAY - Map and flag of the country
Crammed between the huge Brazil and Argentina, the tiny but prosperous Uruguay is home to 3.3 million people, of whom 1.8 million live in the metropolitan area of its capital and largest city,...
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0891, 0892 UNITED STATES (Arizona) - Grand Canyon National Park (UNESCO WHS)
The park's central feature is the Grand Canyon, a gorge carved out by the Colorado River (nearly 1,500m deep, 445.8km long), which is often considered one of the Seven Natural Wonders of the World. Its...
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0893 CHINA (Hong Kong) - Elaborate make-up of Chinese Opera performer
Chinese opera together with Greece tragic-comedy and Indian Sanskrit Opera are the three oldest dramatic art forms in the world. Its roots going back as far as the Three Kingdoms period (220-280), and...
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0894 FRANCE (Centre) - Chartres Cathedral (UNESCO WHS)
Located on a hill on the left bank of the Eure River, at 96km southwest of Paris, Chartres is best known for its cathedral (Cathedral of Our Lady of Chartres), widely considered to be the finest Gothic...
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0895, 0896 DOMINICAN REPUBLIC - Colonial City of Santo Domingo (UNESCO WHS)
Discovered by Christopher Columbus in his first voyage (1492), the Hispaniola island, located in Greater Antilles archipelago, between Cuba and Puerto Rico, was the site of the first European colony,...
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0012, 0463 & 0899 GERMANY (Bavaria) - Royal castle Newschwanstein
Posted on 14.10.2011, supplemented on 12.01.2013, and completed on 12.12.2013It seems known? Looks like a fairytale castle? It really is, because Neuschwanstein castle (near Füssen, Bavaria), kept in...
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