After months of no activity, Postcrossing is back thanks to a postcard from Flagstaff, one of the towns in Arizona through which the so-called Route 66 goes.
The sender is Stacey, a travel writer who came across our blog while looking for information about Ourense in English.
We're thrilled to make new friends via Postcrossing! A postcard from Ourense has been headed for Flagstaff.
Postcard 59 is a Christmas card written by some members of our science project CIENCIA ACTIVA. Adriana, Ana, Daniel, Ariadna and Geovana have sent good wishes to Neil from Wilkesboro and explored this American town located in North Carolina, one of the 14 states of the East Coast of the United States, more than 6,000km away.
Click here to read their findings! Happy holidays!!
Our 57th postcard has been headed for Oklahoma City, the capital of the US state of Oklahoma, almost 7,500 km away!
Hope our American friend Briana will like this card featuring Rafael Cachaldora's vibrant illustration of Rúa Lepanto from which you have charming views of Ourense's cathedral:
Oklahoma City is the capital and largest city of the American state
of Oklahoma with a population of almost 600,000. Oklahoma City has the largest
municipal population of any city in the Great Plains region of the central United States as
well as all neighboring states to Oklahoma excluding Texas and
Colorado.
OKLAHOMA CITY IS FAMOUS
FOR…
… having one of the
world's largest livestock markets. Oil, natural gas, petroleum and related industries are the
largest sector of the local economy. The city is in the middle of an active oil
field. The federal government employs large numbers of workers at Tinker Air
Force Base and the US Department
of Transportation’s Mike Monroney Aeronautical Center (these two sites house several offices of the Federal
Aviation Administration and
the Transportation Department's Enterprise Service Center, respectively).
… being the birthplace
of well-known filmmaker Ron Howard, who directed films as popular as Cocoon (1985), Apollo Thirteen (1995), A
Beautiful Man (2001) and The Da Vinci
Code (2006).
The Oklahoma State
Capitol is the house of government of the U.S. state of Oklahoma. It is the
building that houses the Oklahoma Legislature and executive branch offices. It
is located along Lincoln Boulevard in Oklahoma City. The present structure
includes a dome completed in 2002.
The Oklahoma City
National Memorial is a memorial in the United States that honors the victims,
survivors, rescuers, and all who were affected by the Oklahoma City bombing on
April 19, 1995. The memorial is located in downtown Oklahoma City on the former
site of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building, which was destroyed in the 1995
bombing. This building was located on NW 5th Street between N. Robinson Avenue
and N. Harvey Avenue.
Originally known as the
Ford Center from 2002 to 2010 and Oklahoma City Arena until 2011, it is an
arena located in downtown Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States. It opened in
2002 and since 2008 has served as the home venue of the Oklahoma City Thunder
of the National Basketball Association (NBA).
In addition to its use
as a sports venue, Chesapeake Energy Arena hosts concerts, family and social
events, conventions, ice shows, and civic events. The arena is owned by the
city and operated by the SMG property management company and has 18,203 seats
in the basketball configuration, 15,152 for hockey, and can seat up to 16,591
for concerts.
This is a zoo and
botanical garden located in Oklahoma City's Adventure District in northeast
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
The zoo covers 119
acres (48 ha) and is home to more than 1,900 animals. It is open every day
except Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year's Day. The Oklahoma City Zoo is an
accredited member of the Association of Zoos and Aquariums and the American
Alliance of Museums.
Watch this video to
find out more about Oklahoma’s capital city:
Now that summer holidays are over, we resume our Postcrossing
activity with a card received from Sacramento,
the capital of California,
more than 8,500 km
away!
Thanks a million Marlene for this postcard featuring Sacramento’s best-known landmark, California State Capitol,
home to the government of California.
If you want to know more about this city in the
Western coast of the United States, visit our section Exploring Places!
Sacramento is the capital city of the U.S.
state of California and the seat of SacramentoCounty. It is at the confluence of the
Sacramento River and the AmericanRiver in the northern portion of California's
expansive Central Valley.
The oldest part of the town besides Sutter's Fort is
Old Sacramento, which consists of cobbled streets and many historic buildings,
several from the 1850s and 1860s. Buildings have been preserved, restored or
reconstructed, and the district is now a substantial tourist attraction, with
rides on steam-hauled historic trains and paddle steamers.
The historic buildings include the LadyAdamsBuilding, built by the passengers and ship's
carpenters of the ship Lady Adams.Having survived the Great Conflagration of November
1852, it is the oldest surviving building in Sacramento other than Sutter's Fort.
The "BigFourBuilding",
built in 1852, was home to the offices of Collis Huntington, Mark Hopkins,
Leland Stanford, and Charles Crocker. The Central Pacific Railroad and Southern
Pacific Railroad were founded there. The original building was destroyed in
1963 for the construction of Interstate 5, but was re-created using original
elements in 1965. It is now a National Historic Landmark. Also of historic
interest is the Eagle Theatre (Sacramento, California), a reconstruction of California's first permanent theatre in its
original location.
The CrockerArt Museum is the oldest public art museum west of
the Mississippi River. On July 26, 2007, the
museum broke ground for an expansion that more than tripled the museum's floor
space. The modern architecture is very different from the museum's original
Victorian style building.
The TowerBridge is a Vertical lift bridge across the
Sacramento River, linking West Sacramento in YoloCounty to the west, with the capital
of California, Sacramento,
in SacramentoCounty to the east. It was previously a
part of U.S. Route 40 until that highway was truncated to east of Salt Lake City. In 1982,
the TowerBridge was added to the National
Register of Historic Places.
The California State Capitol is home to the government
of California.
These Neoclassical structure was completed between 1861 and 1874 at the west
end of CapitolPark, which is framed by L Street to the
north, N Street to the south, 10th
Street to the west, and 15th Street to the east. The Capitol and
grounds were listed on the office of the National Register of Historic Places
in 1973,[1] and listed as a California Historical Landmark in 1974, with a
re-dedication on January 9, 1982 to commemorate the close of the bicentennial
restoration project
It is a cathedral of the Roman Catholic Church in the United States.
It is the mother church and seat of Jaime Soto, the ordinary bishop of the
Diocese of Sacramento. The Cathedral is located downtown at the intersection of
11th and K Streets.
If you want to find out more about what Sacramento has to offer,
why don’t you watch the video below?
Postcard 34 is on its way to Laurel, a small town located in the state of Maryland, in the mid-Atlantic region of the United States, 5661 km away!
We hope Karin will appreciate this postcard featuring a beautiful shot of Ribadavia's medieval quartier with a sign announcing its well-known
"Festa da Istoria" (History Festival)
Ángel has looked for information about Ribadavia, a town in Ourense bursting with history, and has very kindly shared his findings in DISCOVER OURENSE. He has also posted this entry on Karin's hometown, Laurel.
Laurel is a city
in northern Prince George's County, Maryland, in the United States, located
midway between Washington, D.C., and Baltimore on the Patuxent River.
Snow Hill is a
manor house located south of Laurel, Maryland, off Maryland Route 197, in
Prince George's County. Built between 1799 and 1801, the 1 1/2-story brick
house is rectangular, with a gambrel roof, interior end chimneys, and shed
dormers. It has a center entrance with transom and a small gabled porch. A
central hall plan was used, with an elaborate interior and corner cupboards.
The original south wing was removed and rebuilt, and the home restored in 1940.
The Late Georgian style house was the home of
Samuel Snowden, part owner of extensive family ironworks, inherited from his
father Richard Snowden and is now owned and operated by the Maryland-National
Capital Park and Planning Commission as a rental facility. Snow Hill was listed
on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.
Montpellier Mansion
Located south of
Laurel in Prince George's County, Maryland, United States, Montpelier Mansion
is a five-part, Georgian style plantation house most likely constructed between
1781 and 1785. It has also been known as the Snowden-Long House, New Birmingham,
or simply Montpellier.
Built by Major
Thomas Snowden and his wife Anne, the house is now a National Historic Landmark
operated as a house museum. The home and 70 acres (28 ha) remain of what was
once a slave plantation of about 9,000 acres (3,600 ha). It was declared a
National Historic Landmark in 1970.
Duvall Bridge is
an historic single-lane bridge over the Patuxent River near Laurel, Maryland.
Although a common
bridge type, Duvall Bridge is one of only two surviving truss bridges in Prince
George's County, along with Governor's Bridge. The Duvall bridge has a cross
braced deck for wooden planking. The bridge has a plaque noting the Anne
Arundel county commissioners of 1907.
Built in
1889, Abraham Hall is the best example of an African American benevolent
society lodge in Prince George's County. Located in the community of Rossville,
it is the first African American historic site in the county to be fully
restored using public funds.
LIFESTYLE
Maryland has been
called "America in Miniature" because so much is packed into its
10,460 square miles of land and water. You can find just about any kind of
natural feature here, except a desert. That's because water is almost everywhere
in Maryland. The "America in Miniature" title also applies to the
role Maryland has played in our nation's history, from the founding of the
United States to the present.
