Sunday Stamps | Iberia

Iberia is the flag carrier of Spain. It was founded in 1927, an this stamp from 2002 commemorates its 75th anniversary.

Go to Sunday Stamps to see more Aviation stamps.

Thursday Postcard Hunt | Big Catholic Churches

Basílica i Temple Expiatori de la Sagrada Família

(Under construcion)

Barcelona, PC

Cathedral of Our Lady of the Holy Assumption
Valladolid, Spain

Cathedral-Basilica of Our Lady of the Pillar
Zaragoza, Spain

Cathedral of the Assumption of Our Lady
Guadalajara, Mexico

Postcards sent by Imma (PC), Bruno (Spain) and Bryon (United Nations).

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Thursday Postcard Hunt
July theme: ARCHITECTURE

• Week 1 - Churches
• Week 2 - Houses
• Week 3 - Palaces
• Week 4 - Stations
• Week 5 - Shelters

Everyone is welcome to share their postcards!

Summer Mail - IV | Flip-Flop

Sunday Stamps | V Is for Volcanology

Stamp issued on 13 July 2006, belonging to the series Earth and Universe Sciences, dedicated to Volcanology and Seismology. 

This is my V-entry for A-Z Sunday Stamps.

Thursday Postcard Hunt | O Polbo

Postcard sent by Pedro (Spain), during a recent trip to A Coruña. 

O Polbo (='The Octopus')  is a work by Javier M. Padín Martínez. It was inaugurated along with other sculptures on the A Coruña seafront in 2004. This statue is made of reinforced concrete and covered with small, colorful ceramic pieces that change hue depending on the sunlight. It measures 2 meters high by 3 meters wide.

On the background you can see the most famous landmark of this city: the Tower of Hercules,  the oldest known extant Roman lighthouse. It also appears on the pictorial postmark:

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Thursday Postcard Hunt
June theme: SHAPES

• Week 1 - Letters
• Week 2 - Curves
• Week 3 - Lines
• Week 4 - Irregular/Wavy

Everyone is welcome to share their postcards!

Sunday Stamps | E is for Earth

Go to Sunday Stamps to see more E-stamps.

Sunday Stamps | C Is for Circus

France, 2024. Booklet of 8 stamps on the theme of Jean-Eugène Robert-Houdin and the theater of the same name. 

Netherlands, 2011. From a set of stamps commemorating the 100 Years of Circus Herman Renz.

Spain, 2018. Stamp commemorating 250th anniversary of the circus. The stamp reproduces an engraving from 1768 entitled: Horse Riding Exercise, by Bernardo Albiztur y Tornaria, currently held in the National Library of Spain.

USA, 1980. 100th birthday of William Claude Dukenfield - W.C. Fields (1880 - 1946).

USA, 1993.

A comment on this post made me think of circus as the C theme for this round of A-Z Sunday Stamps. 

This is a favourite theme, and I had already published some circus stamps. For example, here (EUROPA stamps 2002), here (Barnum and Bailey Circus), here (White clowns) and here (Circus stamps and postcards from Monaco).

Happy Snowpeople

Cards sent by Alicia (Spain) and Micu (Hungary).

It Is Cold Out There

"Sky-scrappers" at St Martin Quarter
Cuenca, Spain

"When it rains, it's a whole different scene. Or when there's a blizzard, it's the best time, told the filmmakers of Bill Cunningham New York, the 2011 documentary."

 

Postcards sent by Bryon (USA & Canada), and Bruno (Spain).

Sunday Stamps | G Is for Gender Violence

Every year, Correos (the Spanish postal service) issues a stamp dedicated to Civic Values -a set of behaviours that is considered positive for the development of society. The theme in 2020 was No to Gender Based Violence.

This is my G-stamp for this round of A-Z Sunday Stamps (dedicated to women in Mail Adventures).

How Often Do You Think about the Roman Empire?

Roman Theatre
Cartagena, SPAIN

Porta Praetoria
Northern gate of the Roman legionary camp
Castra Regina, built 179 AD
Regensburg, GERMANY

Roman Theatre
Tarragona, SPAIN

Sent by Ximo (Spain), R (PC) and Sandy (Germany).

Sunday Stamps | The White Clown

Today's theme in Sunday Stamps is The Colour White. So... some white clowns for you to enjoy!

Thursday Postcard Hunt | Spring Flowers

American Museum & Gardens
 Bath (UK)

Plaza Mayor
Burgos (Spain)

Rye
(UK)

Postcards sent by Laura (the UK & Spain).

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Thursday Postcard Hunt
April theme: SPRING

• Week 1 - Spring Flowers
• Week 2 - (Song)Birds
• Week 3 - Easter-y Things
• Week 4 - Gardens

Everyone is welcome to share their postcards!

Thursday Postcard Hunt | Cave Paintings

This orange hind belongs to the Cave of Altamira, a cave complex in the Nort of Spain, renowned for prehistoric cave art featuring charcoal drawings and polychrome paintings of fauna and human hands. The earliest paintings were applied around 36,000 years ago. 

In 1985 it was declared World Heritage Site by UNESCO. The cave can no longer be visited, for conservation reasons, but there are replicas of a section at the site and elsewhere.

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Thursday Postcard Hunt
January theme: COLOURS

• Week 1 - Blue
• Week 2 - Green
• Week 3 - Orange
• Week 4 - Pink
• Week 5 - Red

Everyone is welcome to share their postcards!

Sunday Stamps | Christmas

For today's Sunday Stamps, dedicated to Christmas, here you have a variety of old and new Christmas stamps I have got in 2024*:

Canada

Spain

The United Kingdom

The United States of America

*Most of them received in January 2024!