The last couple of weeks have been really great for my Unesco collection, I managed to arrange some pretty awesome trades of rare places, and this is one of them. It also completes the Netherlands for now :) It was sent by Gosia.
The people of the Netherlands established a trading settlement at a fine natural harbour on the Caribbean island of Curaçao in 1634. The town developed continuously over the following centuries. The modern town consists of several distinct historic districts whose architecture reflects not only European urban-planning concepts but also styles from the Netherlands and from the Spanish and Portuguese colonial towns with which Willemstad engaged in trade.
Source: http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/819
I love this postcard, it's so colourful and "Caribbean", specially the letters with flowers. It's funny because, when I opened the Unesco page for this site, there was a photo from above overlooking the roofs of the houses and it did seem like Lisbon, with the orange roofs and square streets!
The people of the Netherlands established a trading settlement at a fine natural harbour on the Caribbean island of Curaçao in 1634. The town developed continuously over the following centuries. The modern town consists of several distinct historic districts whose architecture reflects not only European urban-planning concepts but also styles from the Netherlands and from the Spanish and Portuguese colonial towns with which Willemstad engaged in trade.
Source: http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/819
I love this postcard, it's so colourful and "Caribbean", specially the letters with flowers. It's funny because, when I opened the Unesco page for this site, there was a photo from above overlooking the roofs of the houses and it did seem like Lisbon, with the orange roofs and square streets!
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