#67 GF - Oslo, Norway

Norwegians are famous for their love of their own culture, traditions and customs. For years, on the night of June 23-24, on St. John's Night (also known as Midsummer's Eve), bonfires have been lit throughout Norway to celebrate the beginning of summer.

 

Church of Saint Francis of Assisi - Belo Horizonte, Brazil

The Church of Saint Francis of Assisi is a chapel in the Pampulha region of Belo Horizonte. It was designed by the Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer in the organic modern style. It is Brazil's first listed modern architectural monument and consists of four undulating concrete parabolas with outdoor mosaics. 

 

#67 FOTW - Lima, Peru

The flag of Peru was adopted by the government of Peru in 1825, and modified in 1950. According to article 49 of the Constitution of Peru, it is a vertical triband with red outer bands and a single white middle band. It may be defaced with different emblems and has different names depending on its use. Flag Day in Peru is celebrated on 7 June, the anniversary of the Battle of Arica.

 

Stari Most - Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Mostar is situated on the Neretva River and is the fifth-largest city in the country. During the Ottoman era, Mostar was named after the bridge keepers who guarded the Stari Most over the Neretva. The Old Bridge, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, commissioned by Suleiman the Magnificent in the 16th century, is one of Bosnia and Herzegovina's most visited landmarks and is considered an exemplary piece of Islamic architecture in the Balkans.

 

Large Letter Reprint - Little Rock, Arkansas

Nicknames: The Natural State; Land of Opportunity

Motto: Regnat populus (Latin: The People Rule)

Near the town of Murfreesboro, tourists can look for diamonds themselves - they are embedded in veins of olivine (a locally occurring mineral). In the years 1906-1950, over a thousand stones were mined there every year.

 

Bunny with poppy seed flowers - Minsk, Belarus

Much of Minsk was destroyed during World War II and rebuilt during Soviet times. This means that Minsk has a lot of nice Soviet-era architecture. Minsk is considered one of the most Soviet cities of the former USSR.

 

Tasman Empire Airways - Greensboro, North Carolina

Airplane (Short S.30 Empire Flying Boat, registration number ZK-AMA, "Aotearoa") flies over the hemisphere showing Eurasia, Africa, and Australia routes with connections with Imperial Airways routes; yellow, red, blue, and white ink on paper. 

 

#66 GF - Havana, Cuba

It is a myth that cigars are rolled under the armpits or thighs of sweaty Cuban women. Torcedore - this is the name of professionals who, after five years of training, make over 100 cigars a day. Cuba is one of the world's largest exporters of cigars, they are the country's fourth export product.

 

Tupolev Tu - 144D - Zhukovsky, Russia

The Tu-144 was the world's first commercial supersonic transport aircraft with its prototype's maiden flight from Zhukovsky Airport on 31 December 1968, two months before the British-French Concorde.

In April 1978, a new version of the plane entered service - Tu-144D, which had, among other things, Kolesov turbojet engines; their lower fuel consumption allowed the aircraft to extend its range.

 

#66 FOTW - Gaborone, Botswana

The national flag of Botswana consists of a sky blue field cut horizontally in the centre by a black stripe with a thin white frame. Adopted in 1966 to replace the Union Jack, it has been the flag of the Republic of Botswana since the country gained independence that year. It is one of the few African flags that utilises neither the colours of the Pan-Africanist movement nor the colours of the country's leading political party.

 

Bourscheid Castle - Luxembourg City, Luxembourg

Bourscheid Castle is located near the village of Bourscheid in north-eastern Luxembourg. The medieval castle stands on a site with archaeological evidence of structures dating back to Roman times. Standing majestically some 150 meters above the River Sûre, it is enclosed by a circular wall with 11 watchtowers.

 

#1 WOW Cuisine - Wrocław, Poland

Granica Rally is a mountain scout rally in which Polish Scouting Association members participate. Together, in patrols composed of members of groups and teams, they traverse the trails of the Karkonosze Mountains, the Izerskie Mountains and the Rudawy Janowickie Mountains.

 

Maxicard with champagne flutes - Mackay, Australia

With the passing of the "Sugar and Coffee Regulations Act" by the Queensland Government in August 1864 sugar became the industry of choice for the Mackay region. John Spiller planted the first sugar crop on the 1st of June 1865. Sugar became the economic foundation of the city.

 

Pug in hydrangeas - Taiwan

This breed is often described with the Latin expression multum in parvo, meaning "a lot in a little" or "a lot of dog in a small space", referring to the pug's unusual and charming personality, despite its small size. Pugs are strong-willed but rarely aggressive and are suitable for families with children.

 

#65 GF - Santiago de Litém, Portugal

Portugal is the largest producer of cork in the world (over 50% of the world supply). Western Europe is home to some of the most lush cork oak forests in the world. It is estimated that they constitute 34% of the world's area of this type of forest complexes.

 

Postcrossing - Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Russia

Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky is a city and the administrative centre of Kamchatka Krai, Russia. It is located in the far east of the country and lies along the coast of Avacha Bay by the Pacific Ocean. The city is situated at sea level and surrounded by volcanoes. The surrounding terrain is mountainous enough that the horizon cannot be seen clearly from any point in town. Across Avacha Bay from the city of Vilyuchinsk is Russia's largest submarine base, the Rybachiy Nuclear Submarine Base, established during the Soviet period and still used by the Russian Navy.

 

#65 FOTW - Casablanca, Morocco

The flag of Morocco is the flag used by the government of Morocco and has served as the national flag of Morocco since 17 November 1915. It has a red field with a green pentagram in the centre. The green star represents the five pillars of Islam, and the red represents the ancestors' blood and unity.

 

Sandolltium illustration - Seoul, South Korea

Seoul proper is noted for its population density, which is almost twice that of New York City and eight times greater than Rome. Its metropolitan area was the most densely populated among OECD countries in Asia in 2012, and second worldwide after that of Paris.

 

Alexander Graham Bell National Historic Site - Baddeck, Canada

Alexander Graham Bell National Historic Site is a 10-hectare property in Baddeck, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, Canada, overlooking the Bras d'Or Lakes. The site is a unit of Parks Canada, the national park system, and includes the Alexander Graham Bell National Historic Site, which contains the largest repository of artefacts and documents from Bell's years of experimental work in Baddeck. This site was designated a National Historic Site in 1952.

 

Rilakkuma - Esashi, Japan

Esashi was a city located in Iwate Prefecture, Japan. It is currently part of the city of Ōshū. A village was created within Esashi District on April 1, 1899, with the establishment of the municipalities system. On February 10, 1955, it annexed the neighbouring town of Iwayado and the villages of Inase, Atago, Tahara, Hirose, Sunagawa, Tamasato, Fujisato, Yonesato and Ide to form Esashi town. Esashi was raised to city status on November 3, 1958.

 

Souk Fakharine in Marrakech - Berlin, Germany

Pass Souk el Styleyah on the left and continue to Souk el Fakharine, the next opening on the right.  Turn and walk through an exquisite display of pottery, then to the left a few steps down to a metal workers section.  Around you are brass shops with artisans chiselling out plates that glimmer in the sun.  Between them are stores that exhibit eye-catching traditional silver jewellery and other metal products.  If you wish to purchase Berber ornaments or shining brass articles, bargain.

 

#64 GF - Bratislava, Slovakia

Bratislava is located in southwestern Slovakia at the foot of the Little Carpathians, occupying both banks of the Danube and the left bank of the Morava. Bordering Austria and Hungary, it is the only capital of the country that borders two sovereign states.

 

Union Station in Saint Louis - Johnstown, Pennsylvania

St. Louis Union Station is a National Historic Landmark and former train station in St. Louis, Missouri. At its 1894 opening, the station was the largest in the world that had tracks and passenger service areas all on one level. Traffic peaked at 100,000 people a day in the 1940s. The last Amtrak passenger train left the station in 1978.

 

#64 FOTW - Bangkok, Thailand

The flag of Thailand shows five horizontal stripes in the colours red, white, blue, white and red, with the central blue stripe being twice as wide as each of the other four. The design was adopted on 28 September 1917, according to the royal decree issued by Rama VI. Since 2016, that day has been a national day of importance in Thailand celebrating the flag. The colours are said to stand for nation-religion-king, an unofficial motto of Thailand, red for the land and people, white for religions and blue for the monarchy, the last having been the auspicious colour of Rama VI.

 

Struve Geodetic Arc - Kuopio, Finland

The Struve Geodetic Arc is a chain of survey triangulation measurements stretching from the Arctic Sea to the Black Sea, through ten countries and over 2,820km. These are points of a survey, carried out between 1816 and 1855 by the astronomer Friedrich Georg Wilhelm Struve, which represented the first accurate measuring of a long segment of a meridian. 

This helped establish the exact size and shape of our planet and marked an important step in the development of earth sciences and topographic mapping. It is an extraordinary example of scientific collaboration among scientists from different countries and of collaboration between monarchs for a scientific cause. The original arc consisted of 258 main triangles with 265 main station points. The listed Unesco World Heritage site includes 34 of the original station points, with different markings, i.e. a drilled hole in a rock, iron cross, cairns, or built obelisks.