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Showing posts with label Traditional architecture. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Traditional architecture. Show all posts
February 27, 2020

3440 GERMANY (Saxony-Anhalt) - The Old Mint in Stolberg

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One of the most beautiful half-timbered houses of Stolberg , built in 1535 as a mint workshop, is now the home of the city's Old ...
December 24, 2019

3302 ETHIOPIA (Southern Nations, Nationalities, and Peoples' Region) - Gurage Landscape

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Gurage is a zone named for the Gurage people , an Habesha Ethiosemitic -speaking ethnic group whose homeland lies in this zone. Most ...
March 10, 2017

2978 GERMANY (Hesse) - Half-timbered houses in Rotenburg an der Fulda

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Located south of the Stölzinger Gebirge (range), in the narrowest part of the Fulda valley, Rotenburg an der Fulda is a romantic, med...
October 5, 2016

2800 FRANCE (New Aquitaine) - At the well sweep

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2800 Landes (Gascogne) - At the well sweep A well sweep is an device used to bring water up from a well. The materials needed to con...
June 19, 2016

2624 BENIN - Peoples of Benin and their houses

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About 42 African ethnic groups live in  Benin . They settled in this teritory at different times and also migrated within the country...
June 14, 2016

2612, 2860 UNITED STATES (New Mexico) - Taos Pueblo (UNESCO WHS)

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2612 Puebloan woman baking bread at Taos Pueblo Situated in the valley of Rio Pueblo de Taos , a small tributary of the Rio Grande , ...
June 11, 2016

2604 CHINA (Inner Mongolia) - Mongolian yurts

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2604 Yurts in Inner Mongolia in 1986 "...They [the Mongols ] have circular houses made of wood and covered with felt, which they...
May 14, 2016

1727, 2548 ROMANIA (Harghita) - Cristuru Secuiesc

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2548 Cristuru Secuiesc - 1. The Unitarian School; 2. The town hall; 3. The Petõfi Sándor statue; 5. The Molnár István Museum Pos...
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May 8, 2016

2531 PANAMA - Kuna people

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The Kuna , also known as Cuna or Guna, are an indigenous people of Panama and Colombia . In the Kuna language, they call themselves Du...
April 23, 2016

1558, 2484 NETHERLANDS (Aruba) - Cunucu traditional houses

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1558 A Cunuc traditional house in Aruba (1) In Papiamento (the language derived from African and Portuguese languages, with some ot...
March 29, 2016

2418 SENEGAL - Bassari (Aliyan) people

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2418 Youg Bassari girls, granaries of millet and Flamboyant tree The Bassari (A-liyan, Boin, Tenda Boeni) people are agro-pastoral S...
March 22, 2016

2396 UNITED STATES (American Samoa) - The Alao village on Tutuila island

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Tutuila is the largest and the main island of American Samoa , in the archipelago of Samoan Islands , and hosts Pago Pago , the capita...
January 17, 2016

2222 GERMANY (Schleswig-Holstein) - A thatched roof cottage in Sieseby

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The Schlei (Danish: Slien ) is a narrow inlet of the Baltic Sea , which stretches for approximately 32km from the Baltic near  Kappeln...
May 31, 2015

1621 TOGO - Koutammakou, the Land of the Batammariba (UNESCO WHS)

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The Koutammakou landscape is home to the Batammariba (or Tammari people, also known as Somba) whose remarkable mud tower-houses ( t...
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March 28, 2015

1504 INDONESIA (Sumatra) - Bawomataluo Site (UNESCO WHS - Tentative List)

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Nias is a rugged island, the largest of the 131 chain parallel to the Sumatran coast. The native ethnic group which lives on the isla...
December 20, 2014

1366 UKRAINE (City of Kiev) - A farmstead in Museum of Folk Architecture and Life from Pirogovo

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One of the most interesting landmarks of Kiev is the Museum of Folk Architecture and Life , located in Pyrohiv (Pirogov), originally a...
August 24, 2014

1205 FRANCE (New Caledonia) - A traditional hut in Maré Island

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Maré Island is the second-largest of the Loyalty Islands , in the archipelago of New Caledonia , an overseas territory of France in t...
June 26, 2014

1118 BARBADOS - A traditional chattel house

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1118 A traditional chattel house in Barbados In 1625 Barbados was claimed by England, and the first settlement in the island was fou...
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November 21, 2013

0348, 0871 SWITZERLAND / AUSTRIA - Prehistoric pile dwellings from the Alps (UNESCO WHS)

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0348 SWITZERLAND - Reconstruction of a prehistoric pile dwelling from Bronze Age at Laténium, Hauterive. Among the sites included in...
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July 27, 2013

0769, 0770 JAPAN (Chūgoku) - Museum of Folkcraft in Kurashiki

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Kurashiki is one of Japan's great old merchant towns, located along a scenic canal at the foot of Mount Tsurugata, and its white-wa...