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Included in the series "Traditions and customs", this postcard effect, which has a circulation of 400,000 copies and a postal value of 1 euro, is put into circulation on March 16
The Mayor of Lorca, Francisco Jodar, accompanied by the director of the post office of Lorca, Martin José Ruiz, presented the stamp issued today and dedicated to the Holy Week Lorca this morning.
Easter is a popular tradition throughout the Spanish geography lives among ardent devotees and lovers of art and culture.
For this reason, CORREOS emits a card with eight self-adhesive stamps that also have the peculiarity of being impregnated with scent of incense.
The stamps are dedicated to the Easter Basin, Tobarra, Seville and Lorca.
Holy Week in Lorca joins traditional religious processions with representations of the Old Testament and the participation of chariots and horses as they are reflected in the image that is collected in the seal.
They are also very significant in this celebration, silk embroidery.
It works with exceptional technical and aesthetic values ​​that acquire a great sense during the Easter processions.
Hence the motto on the seal: "In Lorca Easter the embroider" with a font that mimics an embroidered letters on the label.
The fact that it is impregnated with the smell of incense is an innovative feature that creates more value for collectors and fans to the world of philately.
It is not the first time CORREOS incorporates a particular smell a sign of postage.
Already it has done with a block sheet dedicated to food products in 2014 and another label that featured a model of a wooden train incorporating a slight scent of wild pine in 2015.
This is a more innovation in CORREOS example, one of the strategic axes of the transformation plan in which the Company is engaged to set the future MAILS.
Applications and innovative solutions in products, services, systems and working procedures are also being reflected in the philately.
In this way, CORREOS reinforces the visibility and value of the stamps, not only as franking system, but as excellent support for the transmission of history, culture and values ​​of a country, and philately as an activity capable of generating labels associated products with interest and appeal to all kinds of público.Lorca on postage stamps
Lorca and seals
Postage stamps have been several times to the city of Lorca as great protagonist.
Among them is dedicated to the Strait Dam Bridges with the II Centenary of the Foundation of the School of Civil Engineering, Canal and Port of Spain commemorated.
Such a stamp was issued in 2003 within a block sheet also represented other important works of Spanish engineering.
At the beginning of 2012 they were circulated five seals under the slogan "All with Lorca" to support this city after the earthquake that struck the town in 2011. The five stamps highlighting the most important Lorca monuments: the Sanctuary of the Virgin of the Huertas, Castle, city Hall, the Palace of Guevara and the Collegiate Church of San Patricio.El objective of this action was spread in philatelic support the image and heritage of the municipality attached to millions of letters with postage for national rate of year 2012.
The last stamp was presented in Lorca dedicated to classical guitarist Narciso Yepes, issued in September 2015 and was presented at the Music Conservatory Narciso Yepes in the presence of the musician's family.
Technical characteristics
The card Easter Seals, which belongs to the series "Traditions and customs", is circulated on 16 March 2016. self-adhesive paper it is printed in offset and its format is 35 x 24.5 mm.
The postal stamp value is 1 euro and the circulation of 400,000 copies.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Lorca
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