The Archaeological Heritage of Niah National Park’s Caves Complex, Malaysia.

This complex of colossal, interconnected caverns is located near the west coast of Borneo Island at the centre of Niah National Park. It contains the longest known records of human interaction with rainforest, spanning at least 50,000 years, from the Pleistocene to the Mid-Holocene periods. The rich archaeological deposits, prehistoric rock paintings and boat-shaped burials found at the northern edge of the massif illustrate biological and human life during this time, and contribute greatly to the knowledge of human development, adaptation and migration in southeast Asia, as well as in a global context. Local communities still observe an ancient tradition of molong –‘take only what you need’-when harvesting guano and valuable edible bird’s nests from the caves.

Malaysia

Date of Inscription: 2024

Dossier: 1014 

Source-Unesco.Org

Thank you very much Ahmad Kushari for the beautiful site card and Philatelic items.

Postcard from Germany.

 Thank you Albrecht for the beautiful UNESCO site postcard affixing beautiful stamps.

Schwerin Residence Ensemble, Germany.

 Established on the shores of Lake Schwerin in northeast Germany, the Schwerin Residence Ensemble is an architectural and landscape ensemble, which fits very precisely within the context of the emergence and development of the historicist style in Europe. Created for the most part in the 19th century in what was then the capital of the Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin in northeast Germany, the property comprises 38 elements, including the Grand Duke’s Residence Palace and manor houses, cultural and sacred buildings, 

and ornamental lake. 

Thank you Uwe for the beautiful site card.

2025 Stamp-World of Letters

Germany

Date of Inscription: 2024

Dossier: 1705

Source: Unesco.org

Cultural Landscape of Old Tea Forests of the Jingmai Mountain in Pu’er. China.

 

Located on Jingmai Mountain in southwestern China, this cultural landscape was developed over a thousand years by the Blang and Dai peoples following practices that began in the 10th century. The property is a tea production area comprised of traditional villages within old tea groves surrounded by forests and tea plantations. The traditional understorey cultivation of old tea trees is a method that responds to the specific conditions of the mountain’s ecosystem and subtropical monsoon climate, combined with a governance system maintained by the local Indigenous communities. 

Thank you Mm6 for the beautiful site card affixing nice UNESCO stamp.

2023 Stamp-Taihung Mountains.

China

Date of Inscription: 2023

Dossier: 1665

Source: Unesco.org

Historic Monuments and Sites in Kaesong, North Korea.

                   

Situated in Kaesong city, in the south of the country, the site consists of 12 separate components, which together testify to the history and culture of the Koryo Dynasty from the 10th to 14th centuries. The geomantic layout of the former capital city of Kaesong, its palaces, institutions and tomb complex, defensive walls and gates embody the political, cultural, philosophical and spiritual values of a crucial era in the region’s history.  The monuments inscribed also include an astronomical and meteorological observatory, two schools (including one dedicated to educating national officials) and commemorative steles. The site testifies to the transition from Buddhism to neo-Confucianism in East Asia and to the assimilation of the cultural spiritual and political values of the states that existed prior to Korea’s unification under the Koryo Dynasty. The integration of Buddhist, Confucian, Taoist and geomantic concepts is manifest in the planning of the site and the architecture of its monuments.

Thank you Johnson for the beautiful and Unesco site cards from DPRK.

Democratic People's Republic of Korea

Date of Inscription:2013

Dossier:1278rev

Complex of Koguryo Tombs, North Korea.

The property includes several group and individual tombs-totalling about 30 individual tombs-from the later period of the Koguryo Kingdom, one of the strongest kingdoms in nowadays northeast China and half of the Korean peninsula between the 3rd century BC to 7th century AD. The tombs, many with beautiful wall paintings, are almost the only remains of this culture. Only about 90 out of more than 10,000 Koguryo tombs discovered in China and Korea so far, have wall paintings. Almost half of these tombs are located on this site and they are thought to have been made for the burial of kings, members of the royal family and the aristocracy.These paintings offer a unique testimony to daily life of this period.

Thank you Johnson from Hong Kong for the beautiful and difficult to get Unesco site cards from DPRK.

Democratic People's Republic of Korea

Date of Inscription: 2004

Dossier: 1091

                    

Frontier of Roman Empire-TheDanube Lnes,Slovakia.

 Thank you Zuzana or the beautiful UNESCO site card-Frontiers of the RomanEMpire-The Danube Limes-affixing nice stamps.

Paseo del Prado and Buen Retiro, a landscape of Arts and Sciences,Spain.

Located at the urban heart of Madrid, this cultural landscape evolved since the creation of the tree-lined Paseo del Prado avenue, a prototype of the Hispanic alameda, in the 16th century. The avenue features major fountains, notably the Fuente de Apolo and the Fuente de Neptuno, and the Fuente de Cibeles, an iconic symbol of the city, surrounded by prestigious buildings. The site embodies a new idea of urban space and development from the enlightened absolutist period of the 18th century.

Thank you Puri for the exquisite heritage site card of your country and historic stamp on Train.

Spain

Date of Inscription: 2021

Minor boundary modification inscribed year: 2023

Dossier: 1618bis

Cerrado Protected Areas: Chapada dos Veadeiros and Emas National Parks,Brazil.

                                      

The site of the Cerrado Protected Areas includes the Chapada dos Veadeiros and Emas National Parks located in the Brazilian central plateau in the State of Goias. Both parks help protect the Cerrado biome, one of the oldest and most diverse ecosystems in the world.  For millennia, these sites have served as refuge for many rare and endemic species of fauna and flora, including during periods of climatic fluctuations. Both sites remain essential for maintaining the biodiversity in the Cerrado, especially in any future climate change scenario.

Thank you Rodrigo for the two site card which are part of Cerrado Protected Area and beautiful stamps afixed.. 

Brazil

Date of Inscription: 2001

Minor boundary modification inscribed year: 2019

Dossier: 1035bis

Sítio Roberto Burle Marx,Brazil.

 Situated in the western region of Rio de Janeiro, the property embodies a successful project developed over more than 40 years by landscape architect and artist Roberto Burle Marx (1909-1994), a “landscape laboratory” to create “living works of art” using native plants and drawing on Modernist ideas. Began in 1949, the property encompasses extensive landscapes, gardens, buildings and collections, which feature the key characteristics that came to define Burle Marx’s landscape gardens and influenced the development of modern gardens internationally. Thank you Eliza for the beautiful heritage site card of your country and also for the Postcrossing stamp and other nice stamps affixed on the envelope.

Brazil

Date of Inscription: 2021

Dossier: 1620

Stećci Medieval Tombstone Graveyards,Croatia.

Stećci is the name for monumental medieval tombstones.An estimated 60,000 tombstones  scatter across Bosnia and Herzegovina, and the border parts of Croatia, Montenegro and Serbia. 

There are  horizontal and vertical tombstones, made of stone, with a flat or gable-top surface, with or without a pedestal. The common classification was established by Dmitrij Sergejevski in 1952. There are seven main shapes: slab, chest, chest with pedestal, ridge/gable, ridge/gable with pedestal, pillar, and cross. 

According to Dubravko Lovrenović, there are nine types in Radimlja: slab, slab with pedestal, chest, chest with pedestal, tall chest, tall chest with pedestal,  ridge/gable, sarcophagus with pedestal, cruciform.A fraction of stećci  bear inscriptions, mostly in Cyrillic, some in Glagolitic and Latin script.

Thank you Nikola for the nice site card affixing beautiful stamps.

 

Gondwana Rainforests of Australia.

                            

The Gondwana Rainforests of Australia is a serial property comprising the major remaining areas of rainforest in southeast Queensland and northeast New South Wales. It represents outstanding examples of major stages of the Earth’s evolutionary history, ongoing geological and biological processes, and exceptional biological diversity. A wide range of plant and animal lineages and communities with ancient origins in Gondwana, many of which are restricted largely or entirely to the Gondwana Rainforests, survive in this collection of reserves. The Gondwana Rainforests also provides the principal habitat for many threatened species of plants and animals.

Source:Unesco.Org 

Australia

Date of Inscription: 1986

Significant modifications to the boundaries : 1994

Dossier: 368bis

                                                                    Thank you Sharon

for the beautiful MAXI CARD on 

Gondwana Rainforests of Australia, a UNESCO World  Heritage site.

2010 Stamp-Australian World Heritage Site

Ruins of Buddhist Vihara at Paharpur, Bangladesh.

 

Evidence of the rise of Mahayana Buddhism in Bengal from the 7th century onwards, Somapura Mahavira, or the Great Monastery, was a renowned intellectual centre until the 12th century. Its layout perfectly adapted to its religious function, this monastery-city represents a unique artistic achievement. With its simple, harmonious lines and its profusion of carved decoration, it influenced Buddhist architecture as far away as Cambodia.

Thank you Foysal for the beautiful site card affixing nice stamps. With this  my collection of Bangladesh heritage site card is complete.

Bangladesh

Date

of Inscription: 1985

Dossier: 322

Stamp 2021- World Tourism Day

The Great Spa Towns of Europe,Germany.

                             

These sites bear an exceptional testimony to the European spa phenomenon, which gained its highest expression from around 1700 to the 1930s. This transnational serial property comprises eleven spa towns located in seven countries: Baden bei Wien (Austria); Spa (Belgium); Karlovy Vary, Františkovy Lázně and Mariánské Lázně (Czechia); Vichy (France); Bad Ems, Baden-Baden and Bad Kissingen (Germany); Montecatini Terme (Italy); and City of Bath (United Kingdom). The series captures the most fashionable, dynamic and international spa towns among the many hundreds that contributed to the European spa phenomenon.

Austria

Belgium

Czechia

France

Germany

Italy

Great Britain 

Date of Inscription: 2021

Dossier: 1613

Thank you Sylvia for the beautiful card and nice stamp.

2021 Stamp-Baby Animals

Archaeological Sites of Bat, Al-Khutm and Al-Ayn.Oman.

 

The archaeological complex of Bat, al-Khutm and al-Ayn represents one of the most complete and well preserved ensembles of settlements and necropolises from the 3rd millennium BCE worldwide.This unique ensemble of 4000-5000 year-old burial monuments, towers, and remains of settlement in the Arabian Peninsula is part of the modern village of Bat, in the Wadi Sharsah approximately 24 kilometres east of the city of Ibri, in the Al-Dhahira Governorate of north-western Oman.Seven monumental stone towers have been discovered at Bat and one is located in al-Khutm, 2 km west of Bat. The towers feature a circular outer wall about 20-25 m in diameter, and two rows of parallel compartments on either side of a central well.

Oman

Date of Inscription: 1988

Dossier: 434

Source:Unesco.Org

Thank you Boris for the beauiful and rare UNESCO heritage site card sent from Oman while on tour.

2021 Stamp- Corals of Oman

Stamp is in Mint condition.ie: not postally cancelled

Bardejov Town Conservation Reserve,Slovakia.

The town of Bardejov is located in north-eastern Slovakia, on a flood plain terrace of the river Topľa near the Polish border. It is a small but exceptionally complete and well-preserved example of a fortified medieval town, which typifies the urbanisation in this region. Among other remarkable features, it also contains a small Jewish quarter around a fine 18th-century synagogue.Due to its proximity to the major trade route that stretches across the Carpathian Mountains, from Hungary into Poland, Bardejov was able to develop. 

Slovakia

Date of Inscription: 2000

Dossier: 973

Thank you Jana for the beautiful site card and wonderful stamps with perfect cancellation.

Stamp-2016 Christmas - Bobbin Lace

Stamp-2011  Dobsinska Ice Cave

Frontiers of the Roman Empire – The Lower German Limes,Germany.

 The Lower German Limes ran for 400 km along the Lower Rhine, along the north-eastern boundary of the Roman frontier province of Lower Germany, from Bonn (Germany) to Netherlands. For more than 450 years from the late 1st century BC, it protected the Roman Empire against Germanic tribes. The first military bases were built in the last decades BC for the conquest of Germanic territories across the Rhine. Once this ambition had failed the left river bank was converted into a fortified frontier. Military installations of varying types and sizes and associated civil structures and infrastructures were built on the edge of the river. The remains of the Frontier illustrate the important impacts of the Roman military presence on the landscape and society of the periphery of the Empire.

Of extraordinary importance is the Castrum Divitensium fort , shortened to “Divitia” by the Rhinelanders, in what is now Deutz . This heavily fortified complex is the only Roman fortification on the right bank of the Rhine. The Rhine formed the actual border and the fort served as a bridgehead for the Romans in the “Land of the Barbarians” on the right bank of the Rhine. 

Germany

Netherlands

Date of Inscription: 2021

Dossier: 1631

Thank you Marcel for the beautiful UNESCO site card and nice stamp.

2022 Stamp: World of Letters

Received a stamp with code labels which is for tracking the letter in Germany 

to know when your letter arrives at its destination.

Roșia Montană Mining Landscape,Romania.

My 750th site card received.
Roșia Montană in Romania features the most significant, extensive and technically diverse underground Roman gold mining complex known at the time of inscription. It was the site of extensive gold-mining during the Roman Empire. Over 166 years starting in 106 CE, the Romans extracted some 500 tonnes of gold from the site developing highly engineered works, different types of galleries totalling 7km and a number of waterwheels in four underground localities chosen for their high-grade ore. Wax‐coated wooden writing tablets have provided detailed legal, socio‐economic, demographic and linguistic information about the Roman mining activities, not just in Alburnus Maior but also across the wider Dacian province. The site demonstrates a fusion of imported Roman mining technology with locally developed techniques, unknown elsewhere from such an early era. Mining on the site was also carried out, albeit to a lesser extent, between medieval times and the modern era. The later extractive works surround and cut across the Roman galleries. The ensemble is set in an agro-pastoral landscape which largely reflects the structures of the communities that supported the mines between the 18th and early 20th centuries.

Romania

Date of Inscription: 2021

Dossier: 1552rev

Source:Unesco.org.

2023 Stamp-Lilies.

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Island of Gorée, Senegal

The Island of Gorée lies off the coast of Senegal, opposite Dakar. It testifies to an unprecedented human experience in the history of humanity. Indeed, for the universal conscience, this “memory island” is the symbol of the slave trade with its cortege of suffering, tears and death.

The painful memories of the Atlantic slave trade are crystallized in this small island of 28 hectares lying 3.5 km off the coast from Dakar. Gorée owes its singular destiny to the extreme centrality of its geographical position between the North and the South, and to its excellent strategic position offering a safe haven for anchoring ships.Thus,since the 15th century it has been prized by various European nations that have successively used it as a stopover or slave market. Until the abolition of the slave trade in the French colonies, the Island was a warehouse consisting of over a dozen slave houses.

Senegal

Date of Inscription: 1978

Dossier: 26

Ref: Unesco.Org

2006 Stamp- Fishing

Thank you Rebecca for sending the beautiful UNESCO heritage site card from Senegal. One more addition to my Rare country  postcard collection.

The Great Spa Towns of Europe, Italy.

This transnational serial property comprises eleven spa towns, located in seven European countries: one of them being in  Montecatini Terme (Italy). All of these towns developed around natural mineral water springs. They bear witness to the international European spa culture that developed from the early 18th century to the 1930s, leading to the emergence of grand international resorts that impacted urban typology around ensembles of spa buildings such as baths, kurhaus and kursaal (buildings and rooms dedicated to therapy), pump rooms, drinking halls, colonnades and galleries designed to harness the natural mineral water resources and to allow their practical use for bathing and drinking. Related facilities include gardens, assembly rooms, casinos, theatres, hotels and villas, as well as spa-specific support infrastructure. Thank you Cristina for the beautiful site card and stamps on the envelope.

Ref: Unesco.Org

                                                             Date of Inscription-2021

Dossier: 1613

Ref: Unesco.Org

2018 Stamp- Republic square in Rome

2019 Stamp- The 85th Anniversary of Donald Duck