Hwaseong Fortress - South Korea

This card of the Hwaseong Fortress in South Korea, was one of the last Unesco cards i've received in the last days. It was sent from Estonia by "ossuusso".

Hwaseong, the wall surrounding the centre of Suwon, the provincial capital of Gyeonggi-do, South Korea, was built in the late 18th century by King Jeongjo of the Joseon Dynasty to honour and house the remains of his father Prince Sado, who had been murdered by being locked alive inside a rice chest by his own father King Yeongjo having failed to obey his command to commit suicide. Located 30 kilometres (19 mi) south of Seoul and enclosing much of central Suwon including King Jeongjo's palace Haenggung, UNESCO designated the fortress a World Heritage site in 1997. - in: wikipedia

West Lake - China

This is a lovely autumn view of the West Lake in China, sent by Twenty. The West Lake Cultural Landscape of Hangzhou was added to the World Heritage List this year.

The West Lake Cultural Landscape of Hangzhou, comprising the West Lake and the hills surrounding its three sides, has inspired famous poets, scholars and artists since the 9th century. It comprises numerous temples, pagodas, pavilions, gardens and ornamental trees, as well as causeways and artificial islands.
These additions have been made to improve the landscape west of the city of Hangzhou to the south of the Yangtze river.

The West Lake has influenced garden design in the rest of China as well as Japan and Korea over the centuries and bears an exceptional testimony to the cultural tradition of improving landscapes to create a series of vistas reflecting an idealised fusion between humans and nature. - in: www.whc.unesco.org/en/list/1334

PL-300693

An official from Poland with Krakow's barbican.

Photo by Piotr Syryca

PL-300693, sent by Magdalena.

The Kraków barbican is a barbican – a fortified outpost once connected to the city walls. It is a historic gateway leading into the Old Town of Kraków, Poland. The barbican is one of the few remaining relics of the complex network of fortifications and defensive barriers that once encircled the royal city of Kraków in the south of Poland. It currently serves as a tourist attraction and venue for a variety of exhibitions.
Based on Arabic rather than European defensive architecture, this masterpiece of medieval military engineering, with its circular fortress, was added to the city's fortifications along the coronation route in the late 15th century.
The Gothic-style barbican, built around 1498, is one of only three such fortified outposts still surviving in Europe, and the best preserved. - in: wikipedia

Carvoeiro Cape - Portugal

I've only received cards twice this week. I've received this on tuesday. It was sent by Vitória and it shows the Carvoeiro Cape and it's lighthouse. Cabo Carvoeiro lie at the westernmost point of the Peniche peninsula, next to the Atlantic ocean, in Peniche. It faces the Berlengas archipelago, integrated in a natural terrestrial and maritime reserve.

The 25 m high Cabo Carvoeiro lighthouse was erected at that place, because of the numerous shipwreck occurring there. - in: wikipedia

9th Postcrossing Meeting in São Paulo

At the beggining of last month some brazilian postcrossers had their 9th meeting in São Paulo. I believe i've received cards from all those meetings and like the previous ones, this was also sent by Déa. Valéria, Cinthia, Karina, Heloísa, Adriana, Renato and Daniel also signed the card.

The card shows some of the most famous brazilian locations, such us the Amazon, Rio de Janeiro, Iguaçu Falls, Brasília, Salvador da Bahía....

JP-208424

My last update of the night is this oficial from Japan.

© Unae Michiru /Aflo

JP-2088424, sent by Maika.

Fugenzan Meigetsu-in is a Rinzai Zen temple of the Kenchō-ji school in Kita-Kamakura, Kanagawa, Japan. Famous for its hydrangeas, it's also known as The Temple of Hydrangeas (ajisai-dera). The main object of worship is goddess Shō Kannon. - in: wikipedia

Yin Xu - China

This is the last Unesco card i've to show... for now, i'm waiting for a few new ones! Like the previous cards, this is also a card from a new Unesco place, Yin Xu in China. The card was sent by Twenty.

The archaeological site of Yin Xu, close to Anyang City, some 500 km south of Beijing, is an ancient capital city of the late Shang Dynasty (1300 - 1046 BC). It testifies to the golden age of early Chinese culture, crafts and sciences, a time of great prosperity of the Chinese Bronze Age. A number of royal tombs and palaces, prototypes of later Chinese architecture, have been unearthed on the site, including the Palace and Royal Ancestral Shrines Area, with more than 80 house foundations, and the only tomb of a member of the royal family of the Shang Dynasty to have remained intact, the Tomb of Fu Hao. The large number and superb craftsmanship of the burial accessories found there bear testimony to the advanced level of Shang crafts industry. Inscriptions on oracle bones found in Yin Xu bear invaluable testimony to the development of one of the world’s oldest writing systems, ancient beliefs and social systems. - in: www.whc.unesco.org/en/list/1114