Bulgaria post issued a postage stamp to mark 100 years of The Titanic.
100 years of an ambitious project, the liner Titanic
April 26th, 2012 
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296 viewsWest-Harju Folk Costumes Hageri ans Nissi
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The stamps feature women of Hageri and Nissi Parishes in late 19th century dress. In that period, most Harju County men already wore city clothes. Checkered skirts, as well as dresses and jackets, then made their way into women’s attire. The main headgear throughout North Estonia was the pot hat that came in various colours. Girls’ headdress used to be wreaths and in Hageri they were sometimes made of strips of fabric of different colours.
Europa 2012 – Visit Spain
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The European public postal operators members of PostEurop annually issue the Europa stamp series with a common theme. This year’s topic is devoted to promoting each country’s culture and tourism under the title: Visit … The theme is intended to promote each country’s most emblematic and characteristic features, as if stamps were a window open to the world of tourism promotion.
The Visit Spain stamp features characteristic tourist attractions full of symbolism; beaches, the fine weather, the sunlight and the artistic and cultural heritage. The stamp designer, artist J. Carrero has taken inspiration from the famous painting Las Meninas by Diego Velazquez to make a composition that mixes different concepts of tourism.
Europa 2012: Visit Bulgaria
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Bulgaria post issued two stamps in the Europa series with the theme of tourism.
Godiji Temple
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Godiji Parshwanath is the name given to several images of the Jain Tirthankar Parshwananth in India, and to the temple where it is the main deity (mulanayaka). Parshwanath was the 23rd Tirthankara who attained nirvana in 777 BCE. Among the images that bear the name Godiji Parshwanth, the best known is Godiji Parshvanath in the Pydhuni locality of Bombay. It was established in beginning of the eighteenth century. The image was brought from Hamirpur in Rajasthan. The temple was moved in samvat 1859 because of a fire. Its 200th anniversay will be celebrated on May 1, 2012.
Europa 2012 – Romania
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Europe is where it arose in the early nineteenth century, international tourism. Wealthy Britons who, before she married, had a habit of going on a trip to the mainland for recreation and desire to know other countries have generalized the frequency of trips, the first manifestations of organized tourism. As a result, Europe has become the most visited continent, with most countries and attractions in the world.
As a consequence of this fact, this year’s theme of PostEurop – Europe 2012 is titled Go … theme which constitutes an invitation to know, by stamps, tourist attractions of the countries of Europe. In Europe noted several types of tourism such as watering and sea, cultural and historical mountain and winter sports.
