Spain – Correos issues a new block of the World Heritage series, this year, dedicated to Monuments of Oviedo and the Kingdom of Asturias. In 1985, Unesco decided to include as a World Heritage Site Santa María del Naranco, SanRead More
Spain – For the third consecutive year appears the TIC issue, this 2017, dedicated to video games and within these has been wanted to pay homage to a Spanish video game: The Abbey of crime because it celebrates its 30thRead More
Spain – On the first Friday of May, each year, the city of Jaca celebrates an ancestral feast, commemorating the battle of the Llanos de la Victoria, which took place around 760 and which confronted Moors and Christians. Like everyRead More
Spain – From 10 to 13 May Avilés will become the European capital of Philately with the celebration of the twenty fifth edition of Juvenia which will coincide with the first edition of MaxiEspaña. Since 1971, the Spanish Federation ofRead More
Spain – From 2000 to 2002, Correos issued in the series Epistolary School Correspondence, four mini sheets dedicated to the History of Spain, illustrated by Gallego & Rey. The protagonists were historical figures and landmarks, from the man of AtapuercaRead More
Spain – In May two new stamps will be part of the series released this year by Correos, 12 months, 12 stamps. Córdoba and Asturias will be the provinces that will lead these issues, which will be used as theRead More
Spain – Asturias is the protagonist of a new stamp of the series released this year by Correos, 12 months, 12 stamps and will be used as the only type of postage for all shipments admitted in the post officesRead More
Slovenia – Slovenia are commemorating the tercentenary of the birth of Maria Theresa by issuing a joint commemorative stamp block with Austria, Croatia & Hungary. The stamp was designed by the Slovenian artist Svetlana Milijaševic and 60,000 copies were produced by ANYRead More
Faroes – This year, HM The Queen of Denmark and HRH Prince Henrik celebrate their Golden Wedding Anniversary. Posta marks this event with the issue of an elegant mini-sheet, which shows a photo of the royal couple without official pomp. TheRead More
Faroes – Once in a while you have to lay down the cards and decide to pass, realizing that you can’t be in the round simply because you don’t have the right hand of cards. This was the case with theRead More
Faroes – The Botanist Hans Christian Lyngbye and his Travel to the Faroe Islands in 1817. On the 9th of June in 1817, the Danish theologian, botanic and natural historian, Hans Christian Lyngbye (1782-1837) put ashore in the Faroe Islands. His missionRead More
Estonia – In July 2017, Estonia will hold its first Presidency of the Council of the European Union. This means that for a 6-month period, Estonia will be responsible for finding common ground between the interests and positions of all EURead More
Croatia – Maria Theresa, the Queen of the Hungarians, the Czechs and the Croatians, and the Archduchess of Austria, reigned from 1740 to 1780. As the wife of Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor born in Lorraine, she also bore the titleRead More
Jersey – George VI, great grandson to Queen Victoria, came to the throne on 11 December 1936, following the abdication of his brother King Edward VIII. He reigned as King of the United Kingdom and the Dominions of the British CommonwealthRead More
Bosnia & Herzegovina – During the archeological excavation on the site Pod- vornice in Lištani near Livno, the graves from the late Croatian and late Middlea Ages were found. Among the finding, the tombstone with the Croatian cyrilic of theRead More