Monday, 21 February 2022

SPAIN

This cover from Spain depicts 2 stamps issued in 2014, celebrating the Historic City of Toledo. Successively a Roman municipium, the capital of the Visigothic Kingdom, a fortress of the Emirate of Cordoba, an outpost of the Christian kingdoms fighting the Moors and, in the 16th century, the temporary seat of supreme power under Charles V, Toledo is the repository of more than 2,000 years of history. Its masterpieces are the product of heterogeneous civilizations in an environment where the existence of three major religions – Judaism, Christianity and Islam – was a major factor. The Historic City of Toledo is inscribed at the UNESCO World Heritage list since 1986.