3868) The Poitevin Marsh, Republic of France (Republique Francaise): La Poste, (French Post) has issued a Postage stamp of 1.39 Euro: Date/Year of stamp issue: 07.04.2025:
About The Poitevin Marsh:
On April 7, 2025, La Poste issued a stamp from the heritage and tourism series featuring the Marais Poitevin.
Here, time flows with the flow of water. In a lush green setting, aboard a flatboat, the traditional Marais Poitevin boat, visitors glide along one of the canals that crisscross the landscape to form an immense aquatic labyrinth.
While the "Green Venice" is the most emblematic part of the Marais Poitevin, it represents only a third of the 110,000 hectares of the regional natural park, the second largest wetland in France, stretching between Niort and the Atlantic.
For the Marais Poitevin has three faces:
First, the wet marsh, with it's maze of canals lined with alders, poplars, and pollarded ash trees with strange silhouettes that stare at the banks. Here, between stops at ports and charming villages, we celebrate the marriage of water and lush vegetation adorned in every shade of green.
A radical change of scenery awaits with the dried-out marshland, where immense plains stretch endlessly out to the ocean, protected by dikes and crisscrossed by large canals.
With the Aiguillon Bay, or maritime marshland, we see the endless ocean with its tides, salt meadows, and mudflats, a delight for migratory birds.
The Marais Poitevin appears to be the product of nature, but it owes everything to the work of man.
Covered by the sea 8,000 years ago, it had become a hostile marshland.
As early as the 11th century, monks sought to drain the land to exploit its soil.
The abbeys of Maillezais and Aliénor bear witness to this past, where pharaonic developments were undertaken and continued for several centuries, resulting in the complex hydraulic system we know today.
Between land and sea, between fresh and salt water, the Marais continues its history, passionately ensuring the preservation of the extraordinary diversity of its fauna and flora and the richness of this exceptional heritage.
The Stamp:
Links:
1) For more on the Olympics and Paralympics held in the past, including the origins and history of the Olympics and Commemorative coins issued both on London Olympics and Paralympics please read my post on the London Olympics 2012 link as follows: History of the ancient & modern Olympics and Paralympics & commemorative coins issued during the London Olympics and Paralympics
4) For Rio 2016, please click on the following link to get interesting insights into the mascots of the Rio Olympics Vinicius and Tom, the Games and the Commemorative Coins and stamps issue programme: 1)The 31st Summer Olympics "Rio 2016"2) Commemorative Stamps and booklets issued by the Department of Posts, India on 05.08.2016
5) For Ancient Olympic Games on Greek Coins of Antiquity, please click on the following link: Ancient Olympic Games on Greek Coins of Antiquity
6) For a set of Post cards titled "Olympic Events" : please click on the following link: "Olympic Events": A set of 12 Post Cards issued by the Karnataka Postal Circle, India Post on 11.07.2016
7) For a presentation set of two stamps titled "Spirit of Olympics, Athens, Atlanta" please visit the following link: Spirit of the Olympic Games, Athens-Atlanta: Celebrating the Centenary of the Modern Olympic Games
8) For a presentation set of four stamps titled "XXVIII Olympic Games" (2004 Summer Olympics Athens, Greece, please visit the following link: XVIII Summer Olympic Games, Athens Greece (2004)
9) For a presentation set of two stamps titled "XXIX Olympic Games" (2008 Summer Olympics, Beijing, China, please visit the following link: XXIX Olympic Games Beijing, China: 08.08.08- 24.08.08: A Presentation set of four stamps issued by India Post on 08.08.08
Links to the Mutiny on the Bounty Coins/Stamps:
Links to other posts in Metropolis Tiffany Art Coin Series:
No comments:
Post a Comment