LaFayette is a small town of 5000 people located just south of Syracuse in Upstate New York. It was named after the Marquis de Lafayette, who is considered a national hero in France and in the United States. He was a key figure in both the French and American Revolutions.  The photo on the card is of the Occator Crater on Ceres. Ceres is a dwarf planet in our solar system. It is found in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. It was first discovered in 1801 by Giuseppe Piazzi in Sicily and thought to be a newly discovered planet. By 1851, it was reclassified as an asteroid. In 2006 NASA said it would use the guidelines set out by the International Astronomical Union and refer to Ceres (and Pluto) as unterplanets (dwarf planets). 

The writer of the card is Sicilian, but lives in Verona, which is in the northern part of Italy. The card is from the sender's home town of Siracusa (Syracuse).  Like most places in Italy, Syracuse has ancient beginnings. It was settled by Corinthian Greeks in the 8th century BCE. Over the centuries the city has been sacked for foreign forces, destroyed by natural disaster,  besieged by foreign and domestic forces, and has changed hands many times.  Today, Syracuse has about 125 000 residents and a variety of historical sites. It is listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.  ASD Siracusa is Syracuse's football teams and plays in the Eccellenza, the fifth-level of Italian football. There are 464 teams in 28 divisions divided geographically over all 20 regions of Italy. Division winners are promoted to Serie D, the top level of non-professional football in Italy and is comprised of 172 in nine divisions.