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2770, 2771 ROMANIA (Sibiu) - The Historic Centre of Sibiu and its Ensemble of...
2770 Sibiu in 1898 Located in Transylvania, Romania, Sibiu (German: Hermannstadt) straddles the Cibin River, a tributary of the river Olt. The first official record referring to the Sibiu area comes...
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2772 ITALY (Campania) - Mount Vesuvius
2772 Vesuvius in 1941Mount Vesuvius is a stratovolcano in the Gulf of Naples, about 9km east of Naples and a short distance from the shore. It is one of volcanoes which form the Campanian volcanic arc,...
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2773 CHINA (Inner Mongolia) - Camel racing
The Bactrian camel (Camelus bactrianus), the camel with two humps, is one of the tavunhorshoo (five snouts), the five domesticated animals on which the mongolian's herding economy depends (horse,...
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2774 FRANCE (Saint Barthélemy) - The flamboyant tree
Flamboyant tree or Royal poinciana (Delonix regia) is a species of flowering plant in the bean family Fabaceae, subfamily Caesalpinioideae, noted for its fern-like leaves and flamboyant display of...
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2776 ROMANIA - Greetings from Romania
At the end of the 19th century and the beginning of 20th century were issued numerous postcards"Greetings from Romania" with images depicting people in traditional costumes and scenes of rural life....
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2777 FRANCE (Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes) - Corenc
Corenc is a commune in the Isère département in southeastern France, in the Alps, an upscale suburb of Grenoble.Read more »
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2778 ISRAEL - Haifa
2778 Crossing Balfour-Herzl Street in HaifaHaifa, the third-largest city in Israel, is situated on the Israeli Mediterranean Coastal Plain, the historic land bridge between Europe, Africa, and Asia,...
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2779 HUNGARY - The locomotive no. 376.631, class 376
During the last two decades of the 19th century the number of branchlines in Hungary increased quickly, almost all of them as private initiatives. The builders made use of the state grants and real...
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2780 FRANCE (Saint Martin) - Caribbean cuisine
Caribbean cuisine is the simple result, without artifice, of an osmosis of all the peoples who made a stopover in this region, a fusion of African, Amerindian, European, East Indian, Arab and Chinese...
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2781 LITHUANIA (Šiauliai) - Hill of Crosses
Located about 12km north of the city of Šiauliai, in northern Lithuania, the Hill of Crosses is an historical and architectural monument, a unique composition of folk art. It attracts people with its...
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2782 ALBANIA - Traditional clothes in Elbasan
The Ottomans erected garrisons throughout southern Albania by 1415 and occupied most of Albania by 1431. In 1466 Mehmet II constructed on the Shkumbin River a massive castle, whereon he named Elbasan,...
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2783 Murder in the botanical garden
2783 Common wasp (Vespa vulgaris) caught in a Venus flytrap (Dioanea muscipula)The Venus flytrap (Dionaea muscipula) is a carnivorous plant native to subtropical wetlands on the East Coast of the...
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2785 CANADA (Alberta) - The map of the province
Alberta is a western province of Canada, one of the three prairie provinces, and is bounded by the provinces of British Columbia to the west and Saskatchewan to the east, the Northwest Territories to...
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2786 FRANCE (Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes) - Chemin de Fer de La Mure
The Chemin de Fer de La Mure (La Mure railway) is a former coal-carrying electrified railway in (and owned by) the Department of Isère near the city of Grenoble, which lost its regular public...
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2787 CHINA (Macau) - Guia Fortress - part of Historic Centre of Macau (UNESCO...
2787 Macau - Capela de Nossa Senhora da Guia and Guia Lighthouse at the Guia Fortress.The Guia Fortress is a 17th-century colonial military fort, chapel, and lighthouse complex, located in the St....
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0368, 2788 FRANCE (Île-de-France) - Arc de Triomphe de l'Étoile
0368 Paris - Arc de Triomphe de l'Étoile (1)Posted on 24.10.2012, 01.10.2016Located in Paris, in the centre of the Place Charles de Gaulle (originally named Place de l'Étoile - designed by Marquis de...
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2687, 2722, 2789 FRANCE (Saint Barthélemy) - Gustavia
2687 Saint Barthélemy - Gustavia (1)Posted on 16.08.2016, 30.08.2016, 01.10.2016Shaped like a horseshoe around a small, sheltered harbor, and named after King Gustav III of Sweden, Gustavia is the...
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2790 FRANCE (New Aquitaine) - Saint-Pée-sur-Nivelle
Saint-Pée-sur-Nivelle is a village in the traditional Basque province of Labourd, now a commune in the Pyrénées-Atlantiquesdepartment in south-western France. The village is scattered in several...
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2791 POLAND (Kuyavian-Pomeranian) - Medieval Town of Toruń (UNESCO WHS)
The Medieval Town of Toruń was established on the site of a former Slavic trading town that had existed for around 500 years and dates to the 13th century, when the city of Toruń (Thorn) was granted a...
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2792 FRANCE (New Aquitaine) - Sequences of traditional life in La Marche
La Marche is a French historical and cultural region, corresponding to a former province whose capital was Gueret (approximately the modern département of Creuse). The name of Marche means an...
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