World on my postcards

 The old houses in Bozhentsi were built in the 18th, 19th century but they still keep their ancient appearance and valuable architectural and ethnographical monuments form the period of the Bulgarian Renaissance.

 The French Quarter, also known as the Vieux Carré or the “Quarter” to locals, sits on a crescent in the Mississippi River on some of the highest ground in New Orleans.  Intimate and unique, New Orleans’ oldest neighborhood has exerted a spell over writers and artists since the time of Mark Twain, Lafcadio Hern and John James Audubon. Hollywood celebrities and software magnates have joined the residential mix, keeping the glamour of the French Quarter up-to-date, but it is the year-round local residents who keep the neighborhood vibrant.

 Burano is an island in the Northern Venetian Lagoon.All visitors of Burano remain intrigued by the many colours and the coloured houses that are reflected into the green waters of channels.  The name "Burano" arise from "Porta Boreana" , the northern door of the city.

 Such a beautiful postcard that says everything about it self on it.

 The first royal residence on Castle Hill was built in the 13th century, after the Mongolian invasion. It was extended in the 14th century, becoming probably the largest Gothic palace of the late Middle Ages. At the end of World War II, the palace was badly damaged. It was rebuilt once again, in Neo-Baroque style, using many original parts.

  The Republic of Belarus is a country located in Central Europe (28-32° east longitude, 51-55° north latitude) with the territory of 207,6 thousand square km. It borders with Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Russia and Ukraine. Though  Belarus  is not such a big country there are 22 variants of the national costume. Regional differences are mainly in the small details of the costume and in motives and subjects of ornament. Garments for the women include a chemise ( kashulya ) made of homespun linen; a heavy pleated checked or striped woven wool or linen skirt ( spadnitsa  or  andarak ); a linen homespun apron, and a waistcoat. Sleeves, shoulder insets, collar and bosom have embroidered patterns in red and black yarn, the composition of ornamenting depending on the region where the set belongs.  The obligatory part of every costume is multi-color belt with pompons, tassels or fringes. On their head young girls would wear coronets and narrow head-towels (skindochka), wh

 Uluru is one of the most best-known landmarks in Australia.It is better known as Ayers Rock. The rock was created over some 600 million years, and the Aborigines have been in the area for the last 10,000 years.Ulu r u lies west of the Simpson Desert, not far from the ‘Red Centre’ of Australia.

Alsace is the Germanic region of France.istorically speaking, Alsace was part of the German-speaking area of central Europe, and to this day a large proportion of the population, of all generations, speak or understand Alsacian, a dialectal form of German closely resembling the German spoken in Switzerland. In terms of heritage and culture, with its villages of brightly-painted steep-roofed half-timbered houses, Alsace is definitely germanic. While today people are free - within limits - to choose what colour to paint a building, in the past the colours had a significance, and town houses, which often had shops or boutiques on the ground floor, were painted according to the type of shop - bakeries in one colour, butchers in another, shoemakers in a third colour, and so on. Today that is no longer the case, but the tradition of brightly coloured half-timbered houses has become firmly established as the local Alsatian style