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PMR145-04 Bulgaria, Plovdiv: Hissar Kapiya (Eastern Gate) of the Roman fortifications of the town. On the right, the Georgiadi House (1848), presently the home of the Museum of National Liberation Movements Keywords: metropolis, architecture, heritage, culture, historic, picturesque, Ottoman, Trimontium, cobblestones
PMR143-04 Bulgaria, Sofia: equestrian memorial to the Russian liberators, standing before the Congress Building. Erected in 1907, it is the work of Italian sculptor Arnoldo Zocchi. Keywords: capital city, metropolis, architecture, heritage, culture, historic, monument
PMR-D4639 Cambodia, Phnom Penh: Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum, formerly Svey Prey High School which was taken over by the Khmer Rouge regime and used as Security Prison 21. More than 17,000 people were held here for torture and later murdered in the "killing fields". The courtyard contains 14 anonymous graves - bodies found after liberation. Keywords: capital city, Khmer, kingdom, Indo-China, orient, Buddhist, metropolis, Pol Pot, inhumanity, cruelty, victims, barbarity
PMR-D4638 Cambodia, Phnom Penh: Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum, formerly Svey Prey High School which was taken over by the Khmer Rouge regime and used as Security Prison 21. More than 17,000 people were held here for torture and later murdered in the "killing fields". The courtyard contains 14 anonymous graves - bodies found after liberation. Keywords: capital city, Khmer, kingdom, Indo-China, orient, Buddhist, metropolis, Pol Pot, inhumanity, cruelty, victims, barbarity
PMR-D4553 The Philippines, Leyte, Tacloban: statues in the grounds of the CAP Building representing General MacArthur handing back power to Filipino president Sergio Osmena after the war. Keywords: historic, ceremony, democracy, monument, memorial, World War II, liberation, freedom
PMR321-08 USSR, Novgorod: Victory Monument commemorating the liberation from the Nazis in 1944. Keywords: picturesque, culture, historic, heritage, statue, equestrian, horseman, allegorical
PMR255-01 France, Alsace-Lorraine, Strasbourg: monument to General Leclerc, liberator of the town after World War II, with the Opera House (Boudhors 1895-21) in the background. Keywords: architecture, metropolis, picturesque, culture, historic, national heritage, colourful, neo.Classical
PMR466-06 Romania, Wallachia, Bucharest: "Casa de Scinteia", later "Casa Pressi Libere", a soviet-style building from 1970, source of most Romanian new publications, now being used as the Commodity Exchange. Keywords: architecture, press office, media centre, Dacia, metrolpolis, capital city, Bucuresti, culture, national heritage
PMR107K-07 Peru, Lima: closer view of the equestrian statue of General Jose de San Martín, liberator of Peru, in the Plaza Bolívar. Keywords: capital city, Bolivar Square, monument, street scene, architecture
PMR107K-06 Peru, Lima: Plaza Bolívar and frontal view of the imposing monument to General Jose de San Martín, liberator of Peru. Keywords: capital city, Bolivar Square, monument, street scene, architecture, equestrian, statue
PMR107K-05 Peru, Lima: Plaza Bolívar, with equestrian statue of General Jose de San Martín, liberator of Peru. Keywords: capital city, Bolivar Square, monument, street scene, architecture
PMR103K-30 Bolivia, Nuestra Senora de La Paz, at 3660 metres, the highest capital city in the world. Equestrian statue of Simon Bolívar (1783-1830), known as "The Liberator", in the Avenida 16 de Julio (El Prado). Keywords: High Andes, architecture, street scene, monument, national hero, bronze sculpture
PMR103K-11 Bolivia, Nuestra Senora de La Paz, at 3660 metres, the highest capital city in the world. Avenida 16 de Julio (El Prado) with equestrian statue of Simon Bolívar (1783-1830) known as "The Liberator". Keywords: High Andes, architecture, street scene, monument, national hero
PMR102K-17 Chile, Parinacota, Arica: Founded by the Spanish in 1541, the city is surrounded by the Atacama Desert, enjoys minimal rainfall, and is known as "the city of eternal spring, where the sun shines every day". Until 1880 it was part of Peru. Equestrian statue of Bernardo O'Higgins (1778-1842) the liberator of Chile from the Spaniards, in the Plaza Colón. Keywords: Pacific Coast, monument, national hero
PMR046K-36 Nicaragua, Managua: Equestrian statue of liberator Simon Bolivar (1783-1830).
PMR611-01 Bulgaria: Varna, one of Europe's oldest cities, was founded as a trading colony of Greek Miletus in 570 BC, but the area has been settled for at least seven millennia. Under the Greeks and Romans it was known as Odessos. Now a thriving holiday resort on the Black Sea with a population of over 350,000. Here: "Kathedrale Sveto uspenie Bogoroditchno" built in 1886 in Russian style in honour of the Russian liberators of the country. Keywords: cathedral, golden onion domes, Byzantine, Orthodox church, religious architecture, church, cross
PMR649-05 Libya, Tripolitania: ruins of the ancient city of Leptis Magna. The city was founded by Phoenician colonists about 1100 BC but became part of the Roman Empire when Carthage fell in the Third Punic War, in 146 BC. It became the largest and most prosperous city in Roman Africa. Now a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The ruins of the Temple of Liber Pater and the Temple of Roma and Augustus adjacent to the Old Forum. Keywords: Roman architecture, historical city, artistic, stone carving, archeological excavations, archeology, Maghreb, Punic architecture

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