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July 20, 2013
0754 FRANCE (Brittany) - Dance Gwenedour of Pays Pourlet
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Once, the Celts formed the largest group of peoples in Europe, covering a huge territory (from Ireland to Asia Minor, and from Iberian...
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July 19, 2013
0753 UNITED STATES (Pennsylvania) - Independence Hall (UNESCO WHS)
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Probably that none of the delegates from the thirteen colonies who signed the Declaration of Independence in 1776 in Philadelphia , ...
0752 SWITZERLAND (Ticino) - Montebello Castle - part of Three Castles, Defensive Wall and Ramparts of the Market-Town of Bellinzona (UNESCO WHS)
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0752 Montebello Castle Because occupies an privileged geographic location in the Alps , with acces to the Po valley southward, to th...
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July 18, 2013
0751 GERMANY (Baden-Württemberg) - The Historical Merchants Hall in Freiburg im Breisgau
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Founded in 1120 as a free market town on the western edge of the Black Forest , in the Upper Rhine Plain , on the Dreisam river , a...
0750 JAPAN (Kantō) - Shinjuku, Tokyo
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Integrated into Tokyo City in 1920, Shinjuku (New Lodge) became in 1947 one of the 23 special wards of Tokyo , that together make up ...
July 17, 2013
0749 MOROCCO - Traditional clothes and musical instruments
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Even if the 99.1% of the Moroccans have an Arab and / or Berber ethnic background (therefore the population has a high degree of homo...
0748 GERMANY (Hesse) - Hundertwasserhaus Waldspirale in Darmstadt
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If Die Grüne Zitadelle von Magdeburg (The Green Citadel of Magdeburg) has been started a year before the death of Friedensreich Hu...
0747 CROATIA (Primorje-Gorski Kotar) - Saint Vitus Cathedral in Rijeka
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Founded by Celts as Tarsatica and became municipium under the Romans as Flumen, the current city Rijeka was ruled successively...
July 16, 2013
0746 CANADA (Ontario) - Rideau Canal (UNESCO WHS)
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The Rideau Canal , also known as the Rideau Waterway, connects the city of Ottawa on the Ottawa River with the city of Kingston , on L...
0744 MALAYSIA (Kuala Lumpur) - Petaling Street
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Petaling Street ( Jalan Petaling ), the Chinatown of Kuala Lumpur , is the best place to shop for counterfeit branded products and fo...
0102 & 0743 POLAND (Lesser Poland) - Cracow's Historic Centre (UNESCO WHS)
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Posted on 20.01.2012 and completed on 16.07.2013 To try to talk about the history of Poland in a single paragraph would be a haphaza...
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July 15, 2013
0742 CZECH REPUBLIC (Prague) - The God with hieroglyph "L"
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In the postcard is a funerary urn representing the God with hieroglyph "L", discovered at Monte Albán , a large pre-Columbian...
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0741 INDONESIA (Java) - Prajurit Wirobrojo, the Sultan's of Yogyakarta ceremonial guards
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Located on the island of Java , Yogyakarta is the capital of the region with the same name, the only one in Indonesia still ruled by...
July 14, 2013
0740 SWITZERLAND (Bern) - Chästeilet in Bernese Oberland
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In the 15th century, the people living north of the Alps began to use rennet (a substance from the stomach of a cow) to make hard che...
0739 MOROCCO (Marrakech-Tensift-El Haouz) - Medina of Marrakesh - Majorelle Garden (UNESCO WHS)
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Founded in 1062 AD by Abu Bakr ibn Umar , chieftain and second cousin of the Almoravid king Yusuf ibn Tashfin , Marrakesh remaine...
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0738 OMAN - A traditional craftsman
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Oman is as much a product of geography and history as of culture and economic change, so even if it shares many of the cultural...
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July 13, 2013
0737 BELGIUM (West Flanders) - Dunes Church of Our Lady in Koksijde
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Koksijde (Coxyde in French) is a municipality located in the Flemish province of West Flanders , on the North Sea coast, nea...
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July 12, 2013
0735 FINLAND (Uusimaa) - The Espoo Cathedral
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This medieval grey granite church is the oldest in Espoo , the second largest city in Finland , located on the shore of the Gulf of Fin...
July 11, 2013
0732, 0733 SPAIN (Andalusia) - Historic Centre of Córdoba (UNESCO WHS)
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0732 The Roman Bridge over the Guadalquivir and the Mosque-Cathedral of Córdoba Located on the banks of the Guadalquivir river , Córd...
July 10, 2013
0729 CZECH REPUBLIC (South Moravia) - Church of Saint Thomas in Brno
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The Church of Saint Thomas and the Annunciation ( Kostel sv. Tomáše Apoštola a Zvěstování P. Marie ), situated in Moravian Square ( Mo...
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