Carthage Popular Arts Festival. View of Monastir
Michel Reference
TN 867
Stanley Reference
TN 841
Yvert Reference
TN 805
Themes
Sites and landscapes
Description
This stamp dedicated to Monastir highlights the historical and tourist dimension of the city, by associating the ramparts and the ribat with contemporary hotel infrastructures. The illustration symbolizes the transformation of an ancient strategic and spiritual place into a major center of seaside and cultural tourism, where the memory of the past reinforces the attractiveness of the present. In the Tunisian context, this stamp illustrates the desire to make heritage a lever for economic development, by integrating history, architecture and the coastline into an overall vision of modernization and international influence of the country.
Size
42x29 mm
Colors
Polychrome
Designer
DE LARUE
Printers
Courvoisier (Helio Courvoisier) S. A.
Perforation
14½
Print
Offset
Face Value
0,20 DT
Mint Value
—
Used Value
—
Print Run
505 000 exemplaires
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