World Postcard Day & Thursday Postcard Hunt - UNESCO

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 Happy World Postcard Day!  

I'm not too impressed with this year's official postcard.  The year's theme is Paper Bridges.  It's also available to print in mono so you can color it yourself.  I'd color it brighter.   For comparison, last year's is here.

It's also Thursday Postcard Hunt, which has us hunting for UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) postcards.  My postcards are sites listed on the UNESCO World Heritage List, which is an international register of cultural, natural, and mixed sites around the world judged to have outstanding universal value.  These sites are considered to have irreplaceable historical, cultural, natural, or scientific significance.  I noticed a few have been crossed off and "delisted."  "Sites are delisted from UNESCO when they fail to maintain their outstanding universal value due to mismanagement, environmental degradation, or development projects."  Reconstruction of cathedrals, urban development, etc.  One site was removed when the government reduced an animal sanctuary by 90% after oil was discovered. 

These sites are safe, so far.

ALGÉRIE – Une Rue Arabe (Algeria - An Arab Street) in the historic Kasbah, Algeria, Africa  c. 1900-1910


Baden-Baden, one of The Great Spa Towns of Europe, in Germany, shown from the Height of Friesenberg.  c. 1905


The Great Sphinx and Kheops Pyramid, Giza, Egypt


Court of Lions in the Alhambra Palace in Granada, Spain.  There are 12 stone lions supporting a marble basin.  1904


Next week will bring us Sculptures/Statues. 

Comments

  1. Mail AdventuresOctober 1, 2026 at 8:38 AM

    Nice to see the Alhambra twice this week!
    That Algerian street is not so different from the place I used to live in Morocco...

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    1. LisaOctober 1, 2026 at 11:22 AM

      When I was 13 my parents and I spent a year in Europe. For 6 months of that we lived in Spain and I went to an English speaking school. Being 13, when my parents went to both Morocco and Granada I refused to go and stayed at school! Of course I now regret it. They also went to Italy without me. Again, being 13, and girls at that age are rather difficult, I refused to get out at the Eiffel Tower! I did peek out at it from the backseat though. I still have the postcard my father wrote me from Morocco. He'd made a mistake in the money and paid $50 for gas instead of $5!

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    2. Mail AdventuresOctober 2, 2026 at 8:11 AM

      Nice memories, anyway :)

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  2. marinaOctober 1, 2026 at 8:53 AM

    I love the first postcard image!!! The Sphinx is always impressive!

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  3. pnsoaresOctober 1, 2026 at 9:56 AM

    I Love the first card... really close neighbours on that street :-)

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  4. Liz A.October 1, 2026 at 11:16 AM

    Love the very old ones.

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  5. JoyOctober 1, 2026 at 12:26 PM

    There is so much going on in the Algerian street. I wonder if the man is the vendor of the carpets. I like the composition of the Sphinx and pyramid.

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  6. violet sOctober 1, 2026 at 1:32 PM

    I have a very romantic notion of such streets as the first one in Algeria. And, I agree it is nice to see the Alhambra again :)

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  7. Mary KirklandOctober 1, 2026 at 2:31 PM

    Those are great postcards.

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  8. TomOctober 3, 2026 at 5:06 AM

    And you have been on the hunt.

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  9. AlanaOctober 3, 2026 at 1:17 PM

    I like the postcards, especially the older ones. Shameful when sites have to be taken off the list. I wondered which one was deleted after oil was found and discovered it was a Oryx sanctuary in Oman. The greed of humanity is endless.

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