Marklaro's World Postcards

Thanks to Apple.

Space Shatle Card from Switzerland

Thanks to Paivi:
Zoo Helsinki Card: Official postcrossing card sent from Finland to Portugal.

Thanks to Hanna:
Che movie card.

Thanks to Rafael Alves:
Ad card from Brazil.

Thanks to Kibas.

Thanks to Kibas.

Thanks to Cuba:
"Donkey on Street" - View card from Monchique, Portugal.

Monchique is village Portuguese in District of Faro, region and subregion of Algarve.

It is a municipal city with 396.15 kilometers ² and 6441 inhabitants (2006). It is bordered to the north by the municipality of Beja, east by Silves, south by Portimão, southwest by Lagos and west by Aljezur.

The county was created in Monchique 1773, By splitting up the county Silves.

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Cria o Novo Logo - Produção Biológica na UE.

A Violência é um Ciclo.
Tu podes pará-lo.
Ad card against the Violence.

Thanks to José Esteves:
Vintage Reprint card from Pernes:
Pernes is neighborhood portuguese of county of Santarem. With 14.06 kilometers m² and 1 689 inhabitants (2001). Density: 120.1 inhabitants / km ².

Pernes holds the category Vila.

It was the county seat of 1514 and 1855. It was comprised of a neighborhood and had, in 1801, 952 inhabitants.

Here is caught combat PernesIn January 29 of 1834Opposing liberal absolutist.

After the administrative reforms of the decade of the 30th century, were built in the town of Pernes the parishes of Louriceira, Humboldt, Daska, Casével and Cowboys and St. Vincent of Paul. Had in 1849, 3 697 people. In 1855 Pernes of the county was abolished and its parishes were incorporated into the county Santarem.

Thanks to Lurdes:
Lighthouse Lages Flores - Azores

"1910. Active; focal plane 99 m (325 ft); four white flashes every 28 s. 16 m (52 ft) square cylindrical masonry tower with lantern and gallery, rising from the center of a long 1-story keeper's house. 2° (?) Fresnel lens. Building painted white with a red tile roof; lantern painted red. A good photo is available, João Paulino also has a photo, and Google has a satellite view. This is the landfall light for ships arriving in Flores from Portugal. Located atop a vertical cliff at the southeastern point of the island, about 1 km (0.6 mi) south of Lajes das Flores. Site open, tower closed." in www.unc.edu

Ad card: Escritaria em Penafiel - Urbano Tavares Rodrigues.

Urbano Tavares Rodrigues Augusto (Lisbon, December 6 of 1923) Is a writer Portuguese.
It is a member of the Academy of Sciences of Lisbon and corresponding member of Academia Brasileira de Letras. Prestigious and prolific author of the second half of the twentieth century PortugalThe work of Urban, which is translated into several languages, whose main characteristic is an awareness of the individual against himself and others, a process that develops to the recognition of a social and political identity. It has also contributed to several publications varied, including the Bulletin des Études Portugaises, Colloquium-Letters, Journal of Letters, Arts and Ideas, Vertex, Observateur, Etc., having been editor of Europe and journalist The Century and Diary of LisbonPeriodicals, which made dramatic criticism. As a reporter, traveled much of the world and met their travel accounts in volumes Santiago de Compostel (1949), Days East (1956) and Days in Europe (1958) among other travel books that later published.

Ad card from Carris, a Bus company in Portugal.

Thanks to serafim:
Postcard from Lagoa de Santo André in Portugal.

Located in the municipality of Almada, the Lagoa de Santo André is one of the most beautiful places that nature gave us. The broad sheet of water, surrounded by dunes grain of golden sand and a rich and diverse bird life make it a very pleasant.

Along with the Lagoa da Sancha, was established the Natural Reserve of Lagunas de Santo André and Sancha, to protect and preserve these important wetland habitats which are home to valuable natural selection, unique landscapes, owners of a very high brightness and charming.