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Impressive statue in a wonderful setting and people's meeting place on the main square... Thanks Raluca!

Nice stamp issued February 2012
from the Economyv& Industry theme.
(Banknote portraits-Nicolae Grigorescu)
The city is located in Northern Transylvania, on Somes River and is the capital of Transylvania.Today it’s a very important academic center with 12 universities.

The equestrian statue of King Matthias, the Hungarian renaissance king (1458-1490) stands in front of the Saint Michael churc. The sculpture, by János Fadrusz, was erected in 1902 and stands in the front of the Saint Michael church on the main square of Kolozsvár. Since this statue poses as a national and ethnic symbol for the Hungarians in Transylvania, the chauvinistic Rumanian administration made several attempts to destroy it using all sorts of reasons...

...After several days with an emptie mailbox :( I received today this great statue postcard!! My first card from Turkmenistan... I learned already a bit more about this for me "really unknown" country thanks to Sonya and Travis travelblog who also sent me this card... Thanks a lot!!
Sonja and Travis travelblog click here.

With gorgeous leopard stamp from a large set of fauna stamps issued in 2009.
The "Mother's Love" Monument(1948). Established in memory of woman perished at the Ashgabat eartquake.It is based around the love of Turkmenbashi’s mother’s love for him. The mother holds the boy in her arms on what appears to be a giant flower emanating from the pond below.
President Niyazov built this statue at the place where his mother and two brothers were killed by the earthquake of 1948.

Ashgabat is the capital of Turkmenistan in Central Asia. It is one of the six independent Turkic states and bordered by Afghanistan, Iran, Uzbekistan , Kazakhstan and the Caspian Sea.

What a coincidence,only a while ago I received a hotel postcard with the name of the founder of Singapore (see with my Singapore collection) and today a view of the man himself... :-)
It is a bit strange to see those small, I think traditional houses, in front of big modern skyscrapers.

And again also with such wonderful stamps!

Sir Stamford Raffles Statue stands out with a panoramic view of Boat Quay.
he statue of Singapore's founder, Sir Stamford Raffles, cast in dark bronze by Thomas Woolner stands in front of Victoria Theatre.A replica made of pure white polymarble stands at North Boat Quay, at an area colloquially known as Raffles Landing Site, as this is the spot where Raffles is believed to have first stepped ashore.
The Sir Stamford Raffles Statue in Singapore is situated along the Singapore River for a special reason. Sir Stamford Raffles divided up Singapore into different ethnic functional sub divisions that lived together harmoniously. He then went on to establish it as the largest trading port in the world - hence the significance of locating the status by the Singapore River.