Issue date: 1/04/2008Denomination: €0.43The Tulip is a bulbous flowering plant that blooms in spring and is native to the Mediterranean region and northeast Asia though most hybrid cultivars are grown in mountains and the steppes of Asia Minor and the Caucasus region. The first Tulip seeds reached Europe from Turkey at the end of the [...]

Issue date: 19/03/2008Denomination:€0.60 In 1958, a year after the Treaty of Rome which gave birth to the EU, the European Parliament was created under the chairmanship of Robert Schuman. In these 50 years, this institution has seen an increase in its power and has become the only supranational institution whose members are democratically elected by [...]

Issue date: 14/03/2008Denomination: €0.31 On the 21st of September 1608, the University of Oviedo started teaching Law, Canons and Theology. It was founded by archbishop Fernando Valdés Salas who left it written in his will that this university be founded. Fernando Valdés had been chairman of the Council of Castille, archbishop of Seville and general [...]

Issue date: 12/03/2008Denomination: €0.31 Lifesaving and cleaning of maritime waters and the fight against pollution, control of registration and flags flown by civil vessels, as well as the regulation of their dispatch, assistance, rescue, tugging, discoveries and maritime extractions, planning and control of maritime traffic, registration and control of civil maritime personnel are some of [...]

Issue date: 3/03/2008Denomination: €0.31 eachTwo stamps make up this issue , one depicting the Bicha of Balazote (Albacete) and the other the Vaso Cinerario de Apofis I (Funerary vase of Apep I) found in the archaeological site of Antigua Sexi, in Almuñecar (Granada). www.stampsgallery.xm.com www.mycovercollection.blogspot.com

Issue date:  29/02/2008Denomination: €0.31; €0.39 and €0.43 This year’s Civic Values issue is devoted to the Fight Against Child Exploitation, Intergenerational Solidarity and Cultural Diversity. www.mycovercollection.blogspot.com