Vineyard Landscape of Piedmont | Italy

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Vineyard Landscape of Piedmont: Langhe-Roero and Monferrato is a UNESCO World Heritage site. This landscape covers five distinct wine-growing areas with outstanding landscapes and the Castle of Cavour.

Thank you Gian Luca and Raffaella!

Plaza Mayor, Salamanca | Spain

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Salamanca is an ancient university town situated in the west of Spain. The Old City of Salamanca is a UNESCO World Heritage site.

According to UNESCo, the city's historic centre has important Romanesque, Gothic, Moorish, Renaissance and Baroque monuments. The Plaza Mayor, with its galleries and arcades, is particularly impressive.

Lake Malawi National Park | Malawi

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Lake Malawi National Park is a national park at the southern end of Lake Malawi in Malawi. Lake Malawi is one of the deepest lakes in the world. The national park is home to many hundreds of fish species, nearly all endemic. Its importance for the study of evolution is comparable to that of the finches of the Galapagos Islands.

Cape Maclear or Chembe is a town located in Lake Malawi National Park, close to the islands of Domwe and Thumbwe.

Lake Malawi National Park is a UNESCO World Heritage site.

Three Parallel Rivers | China

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Located in the mountainous north-west of Yunnan Province in China, the Three Parallel Rivers of Yunnan Protected Areas is a natural serial property consisting of 15 protected areas. The Property contains an outstanding diversity of landscapes, such as deep-incised river gorges, luxuriant forests, towering snow-clad mountains, glaciers, and alpine karst, reddish sandstone landforms, lakes and meadows over vast vistas.

Three Parallel Rivers of Yunnan Protected Areas is a UNESCO World Heritage site.

Fountains Abbey | United Kindom

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Fountains Abbey is one of the largest and best preserved ruined Cistercian monasteries in England. Founded in 1132, the abbey operated for 407 years becoming one of the wealthiest monasteries in England until its dissolution in 1539 under the order of Henry VIII.

The Dissolution of the Monasteries was the set of administrative and legal processes between 1536 and 1541 by which Henry VIII disbanded monasteries, priories, convents and friaries in England, Wales and Ireland. He appropriated their income, disposed of their assets, and provided for their former personnel and functions.

Studley Royal Park including the Ruins of Fountains Abbey is a UNESCO World Heritage site.

Traditional Buildings | Ghana

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In Ghana, near Kumasi, a group of traditional buildings are the last remaining testimony of the great Asante civilization, which reached its peak in the 18th century. Arranged around courtyards, the buildings are constructed of timber, bamboo and mud plaster and originally had thatched roofs.

Asante Traditional Buildings is a UNESCO World Heritage site.

Flags of the World | Bolivia

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On August 17, 1825, eleven days after independence from Spain was proclaimed, Bolivia adopted its first national flag. The current national flag of Bolivia was originally adopted in 1851.

Island of Gorée | Senegal

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Gorée is a tiny, car-free island off the coast of Dakar, in Senegal. It’s known for its role in the 15th- to 19th-century Atlantic slave trade. It was the largest slave-trading centre on the African coast.

Ruled in succession by the Portuguese, Dutch, English and French, its architecture is characterized by the contrast between the grim slave-quarters and the elegant houses of the slave traders.

Island of Gorée is a UNESCO World Heritage site.

Lakshadweep Islands | India

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Lakshadweep (meaning “100,000 Islands”) is a group of 36 islands in the Arabian Sea, 200 to 440 km off the southwestern coast of India. They are India's only coral atolls.

The Sassi of Matera | Italy

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Matera is a city in Southern Italy with a rich history. It is one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world, having been inhabited since the 10th millennium BC.

The Sassi and the Park of the Rupestrian Churches of Matera is a UNESCO World Heritage site. Sassi refers to the two districts well-known for their ancient cave dwellings. The park of the Rupestrian Churches of Matera refers to a rugged regional park featuring churches carved out of caves & cliffs.

Vizcaya Bridge | Spain

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The Vizcaya Bridge is a transporter bridge that links the towns of Portugalete and Las Arenas in the Biscay province of Spain, crossing the mouth of the Nervion River. It is the world's oldest transporter bridge and was built in 1893. It was the first bridge in the world to carry people and traffic on a high suspended gondola.

Vizcaya Bridge is a UNESCO World Heritage site.

A Postcard from The Gambia

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Gambia is one of the smallest countries in Africa: A long narrow strip of land at almost 500 kilometers in length and 50 kilometers in width. The country is surrounded by Senegal.

Al Shaheed Park | Kuwait

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Al Shaheed Park is the largest urban park in Kuwait. The park is located on the periphery of Kuwait city. The park consists of 200,000 m2 of greenery, featuring beautiful botanical gardens, two museums, a visitor center, a lake, walkways and jogging tracks, making it the largest urban park in Kuwait.

The card was sent from one of the US Military Bases in Kuwait.
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thx Van!

Champaner-Pavagadh Archaeological Park | India

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Champaner-Pavagadh Archaeological Park is a concentration of largely unexcavated archaeological, historic and living cultural heritage properties. All cradled in an impressive landscape which includes prehistoric (chalcolithic) sites, a hill fortress of an early Hindu capital, and remains of the 16th-century capital of the state of Gujarat.

Lila Gumbaz Ki Masjid in Champaner is one of the 114 monuments that are part of the Champaner-Pavagadh Archaeological Park, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Lower Valley of the Omo | Ethiopia

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The Lower Valley of the Omo is located in south-western Ethiopia. It extends over an area of 165 km2. The age old sedimentary deposits in the Lower Omo Valley are now world renowned for the discovery of many hominid fossils, that have been of fundamental importance in the study of human evolution.

Lower Valley of the Omo is a UNESCO World Heritage site.

Sviyazhsk Island | Russia

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With an area spanning 62 hectares, the island town of Sviyazhsk is located on a hill in the estuary of the Sviyaga River, some 19 miles from Tatarstan's capital of Kazan. It was founded as a fortress by Ivan the Terrible in 1551.

Assumption Cathedral and Monastery of the town-island of Sviyazhsk is a UNESCO World Heritage.

Flags of the World | China

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The red represents the communist revolution; the five stars and their relationship represent the unity of the Chinese people under the leadership of the Communist Party of China (CPC).

Rangitoto Island | New Zealand

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Only a short scenic ferry ride across the harbour from downtown Auckland, the island of Rangitoto is a favourite destination for hikers and day-trippers. Emerging unexpectedly from the sea some 600 years ago, it is the youngest and largest volcano in the Auckland volcanic field.

Independence Hall | USA

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Independence Hall is the building where both the United States Declaration of Independence and the United States Constitution were debated and adopted.

The universal principles of freedom and democracy set forth in these documents are of fundamental importance to American history and have also had a profound impact on law-makers around the world.

Independence Hall is a UNESCO World Heritage site.

The island of Ortigia | Italy

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Ortigia is a small island which is the historical centre of the city of Syracuse, Sicily, that has been inhabited for around 3000 years.

Syracuse and the Rocky Necropolis of Pantalica is a UNESCO World Heritage site. The Necropolis of Pantalica is a rocky outcrop located 40 km. away from Syracuse that contains over 5,000 tombs cut into the rock near open stone quarries.

Dragon boat racing in Tahiti | French Polynesia

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The dragon boat is a human-powered boat (Paddled Water Craft) traditionally made of teak wood to various designs and sizes. It is one of a family of Traditional Long Boats found throughout Asia, Africa and the Pacific Islands. It is now used in the team paddling sport of dragon boat racing.

With ancient Chinese origins, the first participants were Chinese villagers who held races in the belief it would show worship to the dragon, a traditional symbol of water. Today, the sport is fast and exciting with crews of either 10 or 20 paddling to the beat of a drum over a set distance.

Thx Sayam for sending this card!

Centennial Hall | Poland

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The Centennial Hall is a historic building in Wrocław, Poland. Built in 1911-1913 by the architect Max Berg as a multi-purpose recreational building. It can accommodate up to 10,000 people.

According to Unesco the Centennial Hall is an outstanding example of early Modernism and the innovative use of reinforced concrete structures in the building industry. Centennial Hall in Wrocław is a UNESCO World Heritage site.

Al Zubarah Fort | Qatar

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The walled coastal town of Al Zubarah in the Persian Gulf flourished as a pearling and trading centre in the late 18th century and early 19th centuries, before it was destroyed in 1811 and abandoned in the early 1900s.

Al Zubarah Archaeological Site is a UNESCO World Heritage site.

Flags of the World | Iceland

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The flag of Iceland followed the example of the other Scandinavian countries and consists of a blue background bearing a red cross, which is embedded in the traditional white Scandinavian cross. The blue color is supposed to represent omnipresent Atlantic Ocean, the red lava and Icelandic volcanoes, and the white stands for another Icelandic natural landmarks - glaciers and geysers.

Messel Pit Fossil Site | Germany

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Messel Pit Fossil Site is a UNESCO World Heritage site. According to UNESCO, Messel Pit is the richest site in the world for understanding the living environment of the Eocene, between 57 million and 36 million years ago.

With more than 40,000 finds to date, the Messel Pit is one of the world's most productive fossil sites.