Vernazza - Cinque Terre | Italy

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Vernazza is one of the five towns that make up the Cinque Terre region, a coastal area within Liguria, in the northwest of Italy. Cinque Terre comprises five villages: Monterosso al Mare, Vernazza, Corniglia, Manarola, and Riomaggiore.

Portovenere, Cinque Terre, and the Islands (Palmaria, Tino and Tinetto) is a UNESCO World Heritage site.

Skara Brae | United Kindom - Scotland

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Skara Brae is a stone-built Neolithic settlement, located on the Bay of Skaill on the west coast of Mainland, the largest island in the Orkney archipelago of Scotland. Consisting of eight clustered houses, it was occupied from roughly 3180 BC to about 2500 BC and is Europe's most complete Neolithic village.

Heart of Neolithic Orkney is a UNESCO World Heritage site. The group of Neolithic monuments on Orkney consists of a large chambered tomb (Maes Howe), two ceremonial stone circles (the Stones of Stenness and the Ring of Brodgar) and a settlement (Skara Brae), together with a number of unexcavated burial, ceremonial and settlement sites.

Niamey, capital city of Niger

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Niamey is the capital and largest city of the West African country of Niger. The city of 1,2 million inhabitants is located along the Niger River.

Pimachiowin Aki | Canada

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Pimachiowin Aki ('The Land That Gives Life') is a landscape of rivers, lakes, wetlands, and boreal forest. It forms part of the ancestral home of the Anishinaabeg, indigenous people living from fishing, hunting and gathering.

Pimachiowin Aki is a UNESCO World Heritage site. The site overs 29,000 square kilometres  of Manitoba and Ontario provinces.

Vatnajökull National Park | Iceland

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Vatnajökull National Park is one of three national parks in Iceland. It encompasses all of Vatnajökull glacier and extensive surrounding areas. Vatnajökull is Europe's largest glacier outside the arctic, with a surface area of 8,100 km2.

Vatnajökull National Park - dynamic nature of fire and ice is a UNESCO World Heritage site.

Flags of the World | Bonaire

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The flag of Bonaire was adopted on 11 December 1981. The colors red, white, and blue show Bonaire's loyalty to the Kingdom of the Netherlands. The black compass represents the population of Bonaire who comes from the four corners of the world.

The red six-pointed star represents the original six villages of Bonaire - Antriol, Nikiboko, Nort Saliña, Playa, Rincon and Tera Korá.

Flags of the World | Palau

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Palau is an island country located in the western Pacific Ocean. The flag of Palau was adopted on 1 January 1981, when the island group separated from the United Nations Trust Territory.

Augsburg fountain | Germany

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The water management system of the city of Augsburg has evolved in successive phases from the 14th century to the present day.

It includes a network of canals, water towers dating from the 15th to 17th centuries, which housed pumping machinery, a water-cooled butchers’ hall, a system of three monumental fountains and hydroelectric power stations, which continue to provide sustainable energy today.

Water Management System of Augsburg is a UNESCO World Heritage site.

Flowerpot Island | Canada

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Flowerpot Island is an island in Georgian Bay, in the Canadian province of Ontario. The island is a popular tourist destination, with camping facilities and hiking trails. The name of the island comes from two rock pillars on its eastern shore, which look like flower pots. These pots are some sort of sea stacks, a vertical column or columns of rock in the sea near a coast, formed by wave erosion.

Humble Administrator's Garden | China

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The Classical Gardens of Suzhou are a group of gardens in Suzhou region, Jiangsu province, China. 

Spanning a period of almost one thousand years, these gardens, most of them built by scholars, standardized many of the key features of classical Chinese garden design with constructed landscapes mimicking natural scenery of rocks, hills and rivers with strategically located pavilions and pagodas.

Classical Gardens of Suzhou is a UNESCO World Heritage site.

Fort Zeelandia | Suriname

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Fort Zeelandia is a fortress in Paramaribo, Suriname. In 1640 the French built a wooden fort on the spot, which during the British colonial days was reinforced and became Fort Willoughby. It was taken by the Dutch in 1667 and renamed Fort Zeelandia.

Situated to the west and north of the Fort Zeelandia property are some officer’s residences built in timber, that stand in contrast to the stone mass of the fortress.

Historic Inner City of Paramaribo is a UNESCO World Heritage site.

Serra da Capivara National Park | Brazil

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Serra da Capivara National Park is a national park in the Northeastern region of Brazil. The area has many prehistoric paintings. This area has the largest and the oldest concentration of prehistoric sites in the Americas.

Pedra Furada, meaning pierced rock, is an important collection of over 800 archaeological sites. These include hundreds of rock paintings dating from circa 12,000 tot 60,000 years ago.

Serra da Capivara National Park is a UNESCO World Heritage site.

Blaenavon Iron Works | United Kingdom

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The area around Blaenavon is evidence of the pre-eminence of South Wales as the world's major producer of iron and coal in the 19th century. All the necessary elements can still be seen - coal and ore mines, quarries, a primitive railway system, furnaces, workers' homes, and the social infrastructure of their community.

Blaenavon Industrial Landscape is a UNESCO World Heritage site.

Dahlak Islands | Eritrea

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The Dahlak Archipelago is a group of 124 islands located in the Red Sea near Massawa, Eritrea. Only four of the islands are permanently inhabited, of which Dahlak Kebir is the largest and most populated. Luul Resort Hotel is located on Dahlak Kebir.

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Flags of the World | United States of America

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The 50 stars on the flag represent the 50 states of the United States of America, and the 13 stripes represent the thirteen British colonies that declared independence from the Kingdom of Great Britain, and became the first states in the U.S.

Flags of the World | United Kingdom

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The national flag of the United Kingdom is the Union Jack. The current design of the Union Jack dates from the union of Ireland and Great Britain in 1801.

The flag is an ensemble of the red cross of Saint George (patron saint of England), the Cross of St Patrick (patron saint of Ireland) and the Saltire of Saint Andrew (patron saint of Scotland).

The Lion of Babylonia | Iraq

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The archaeological site of Babylon is located 85 km south of Baghdad. The Lion of Babylon is a stone sculpture that can be found in this ancient city. The statue was built by the Chaldean Babylonian king Nebuchadnezzar II (605-562 BC) and is made out of black basalt stone.

Babylon is a UNESCO World Heritage site.

Katholiko Monastery | Greece

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Katholiko monastery is located on the Greek island of Crete at a short distance from the sea. It is considered the oldest monastery in Crete, as its origins date back tot the 6th or 7th century. The Catholicon of the monastery Katholiko is carved into the rock.

In the 16th century, when the coasts of Crete were targeted by pirates, the monks were forced to move to a more remote place, so they abandoned Katholiko. The monastery is now ruined and can be accessed through a trail that that starts from the nearby monastery Gouverneto.

Bakhchisaray Cave Monastery | Russia

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The Assumption Monastery of the Caves is located in Crimea, near Bakhchysarai. It is a cave monastery carved out of a cliff dating back to the 15th century.

In 1921 the monastery was closed by the Soviet government. After the dissolution of the Soviet Union and Ukrainian independence the monastery was reopened to the public in 1993.

Barolo vineyard landscape | 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.

One of these five areas is the Langa of Barolo. This is one of the most renowned of Piedmont’s tourist attractions. The area is a vast 360° vineyard, dotted here and there with castles and medieval hamlets.

Studenica Monastery | Serbia

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The Studenica Monastery is a 12th-century Serbian Orthodox monastery, located in Serbia's so called Valley of Kings. This is the place where the first medieval Serbian state was founded and where the kings of the Nemanjić dynasty built their monasteries. Of which several are World Heritage sites.

Studenica Monastery is a UNESCO World Heritage site. Here you see a painted version.

Afar: where it all began | Ethiopia

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The Awash valley in Ethiopia contains one of the most important groupings of paleontological sites on the African continent. The remains found at the site, the oldest of which date back at least 4 million years, provide evidence of human evolution which has modified our conception of the history of humankind.

The most spectacular discovery came in 1974, when 52 fragments of a skeleton were found. The skeleton became known as Lucy.

Lower Valley of the Awash is a UNESCO World Heritage site. The Lower Awash Valley paleo-anthropological site is located 300 km northeast of Addis Ababa, in the west of the Afar Depression. It covers an area of around 150 km2.

Bom Jesus do Monte | Portugal

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The Sanctuary of Bom Jesus do Monte in Braga, Portugal is a notable example of pilgrimage site with a monumental, Baroque stairway that climbs 116 meters.

Sanctuary of Bom Jesus do Monte in Braga is a UNESCO World Heritage site.

Flags of the World | Cameroon

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The national flag of Cameroon was adopted in its present form on 20 May 1975 after Cameroon became a unitary state. The colour scheme uses the traditional Pan-African colours. Cameroon was the second state to adopt the green, red and yellow.

San Miguel de Allende | Mexico

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San Miguel de Allende is located 274 km from Mexico City. The fortified town, first established in the 16th century to protect the Royal Route inland, reached its apogee in the 18th century when many of its outstanding religious and civic buildings were built in the style of the Mexican Baroque.

Protective town of San Miguel and the Sanctuary of Jesús Nazareno de Atotonilco is a UNESCO World Heritage site. The Jesuit sanctuary is situated 14 km from San Miguel.