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Europa 2013 – Czech Republic

Europa 2013 – Czech Republic

The theme of this year’s common Europa 2013 issue coming out in each Post Europe member country is “Postal Means of Transportation”.  The Czech stamp depicts a symbol of Czechoslovak Post’s history – horse-drawn parcel mail coach. Model IV of this coach was based on a one-horse cargo coach used by Austrian Post. Like its [...]

Beauty of Orchids

Beauty of Orchids

Czech post issued a set of stamps Flower Growing – Beauty of Orchids. The stamps feature exotic orchids originating from foreign locations. This is the first time in the history of Czechoslovak and Czech design that this motif has been chosen for a stamp. The orchid family is a diverse and widespread family of flowering [...]

London 2012 Summer Olympic Games – Czech Republic

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Javelin throw, included in the ancient Greek Olympic Games since the year 776 BC as one of five events of the pentathlon competition. The dominant bronze sculpture (front) of a classical javelin thrower from the 5th century BC and his contemporary counterpart (background) represent the long tradition of the Olympics and the position of athletics [...]

Europa 2012 – Czech Republic

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This year´s common theme for the annual EUROPA issue, announced by the Association of European Public Postal Operators PostEurop, is Invitation to the Issuing Country. The motifs chosen by the author for the invitation stamp are the Old Town Bridge Tower and the Dancing House, or the past and present intertwined. The Old Town Bridge [...]

Historical Organs – Plasy

The organ at the Church of the Assumption of Our Lady in the Cistercian Monastery in Plasy is a unique early Baroque instrument. Built in 1688 by leading Czech organ builder Abraham Stark from Loket, it had 29 registers and is still counted among the largest organs in the Czech Republic. The first large restoration [...]

Nature Protection – Sumava

The importance of the Šumava National Park and Protected Landscape Area grew in 1990 with the declaration of a biosphere reserve (part of the UNESCO’s Man and the Biosphere (MAB) programme) covering almost the entire Šumava region and the neighbouring Bavarian Forest National Park in Germany. The Šumava Biosphere Reserve is to preserve the typical [...]

European Florists Championship Europa Cup 2011

Like the Olympic games, the top prestigious EUROPA CUP competition in floral design takes place once every four years in one of the member countries of FLORINT, the European Federation of Professional Florist Associations. The federation was formed in Strasbourg in 1956 under the name Fédération Européenne des Unions Professioneless des Fleuristes (FEUPF) and changed [...]

Europa Alluvial Forests – Czech Republic

An alluvial forest is a hardwood forest found on low levees, ridges and terraces with a high level of underground water within the floodplains of streams and rivers. This type of forest grows in areas that are slightly elevated above floodplain swamp and are usually flooded for a portion of the growing season. Formerly a [...]

20 Years of the Visegrad Group – Czech Republic

Slovak Post issued a stamp designed by the four member countries of the Visegrad Group (also known as the Visegrad Four, or V4) on the Slovak Ambassador to V4′s initiative, to commemorate the 20th anniversary of establishment of this alliance of four Central European countries, i.e. Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia. The idea of [...]

Historical stoves

Czech post will issue a set of stamp in the craft series featuring Historical stoves of Art Nouveau and Art Deco.


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