Gibraltar – The year of Rooster begins on the 28th January 2017 and finishes on the 15th February 2018. The Rooster (or Chicken) occupies the 10th position among the Chinese zodiac animals. In Chinese culture, the Rooster represents fidelity and punctuality,Read More
Spain – More than 12,000 kilometers away from Spain is one of the three volcanoes of Antarctica that forms the island whose name in English, Deception Island, translated incorrectly into Spanish as Isla Decepción but that really means Isla Engaño. ItRead More
France – The Château du Pailly is considered to be the most prestigious example of Renaissance architecture in Champagne-Ardenne. On the stamp, on the right, the engraver represented the North West façade with the dungeon and moats. On the left, anRead More
Estonia – Starting from 2011 a series of postage stamps is issued. This year’s stamp is the seventh of the series and is dedicated to the Year of the Rooster which begins on January 28. Chinese astrology has twelve animal figuresRead More
France – Booklet of 12 postage stamps stickers at the price of the green letter representing the 12 Chinese astrological signs. It is the artist LI Zhongyao who created for the French Post the twelve drawings, in the ancestral spirit, onRead More
Romania – In 2017, Romania marks the anniversary of 10 years since Romania joined the European Union, on January 1st, 2007, a historical monument inscribed in the history of contemporary Romania. The European Union presents itself as anRead More
Slovenia – Love… kept safely in a box Over the centuries people in Slovenia have traditionally used at least three different types of chest. Large ones were used to store clothes and various valuable items. The most numerous kind wereRead More
Slovenia – The character for the rooster is found even in the earliest forms of Chinese writing – in inscriptions on turtle shells dating from between the fourteenth and eleventh centuries BC. Because the rooster has been present in ChineseRead More
Slovenia – For more than a century, humour in Slovenia has been inseparably connected with the surname Milcinski – a surname we will be hearing a lot of this year, since 3 December 2017 marks the 150th anniversary of the birth,Read More
Slovenia – Carlo Martinuzzi, renovation of the Magistrat – Carlo Martinuzzi (Cividale del Friuli c. 1673 – Koper 1726) was the leading architect in Carniola in the early eighteenth century and from 1710 onwards held the post of Landesbaumeister. His mostRead More
Romania – Gracious shapes and superb colours, this is what we think of when we hear the word “orchids”. We’re used to them as an exotic presence that we associate with distant tropical paradises, but Romania is also the homeland ofRead More
France – It was in 1945, at 44 rue François 1er, on the 1st floor of a mansion in the 8th arrondissement in Paris that the young Pierre Balmain, former assistant of Christian Dior and Hubert de Givenchy, installed the headquartersRead More
Croatia – Stamps have been issued in a common 16-stamp sheet and there is also First Day Cover (FDC) issued by Croatian Post. In cooperation with the World Wildlife Fund – WWF Croatian Post has issued four commemorative postage stamps with theRead More
Spain – As in previous years, a province of our country has been chosen as the Spanish Capital of Gastronomy during 2017. This year, Huelva has been selected. For the first time a coastal province has been chosen. The juryRead More
Jersey – Edward VIII, Queen Victoria’s great grandson, reigned as King of the United Kingdom and the Dominions of the British Empire, and Emperor of India from 20 January 1936 until his abdication on 11 December of the same year. ThisRead More
