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This cover from Poland depicts 3 different stamps with tourist landmarks in Poland. The stamp on the right top shows a picture of the Old City of Zamosc, the oldest historic district of the city of Zamość. It is one of the World Heritage Sites in Poland (added in 1992). According to UNESCO, this landmark is an outstanding example of a Renaissance planned town of the late 16th century, which retains its original layout and fortifications and many buildings of particular interest, blending Italian and Central European architectural traditions.".

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FDC commemorating 600 years of St. Florian parish in Brwwinow.

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This cover from Poland depicts a complete set issued in 2022 on topic "Tourist places in Poland". The stamp on the top celebrates the Old City of Zamosc, the oldest historic district of the city of Zamość. It is one of World Heritage Sites in Poland (added in 1992). According to UNESCO, this monument value lies in it being "an outstanding example of a Renaissance planned town of the late 16th century, which retains its original layout and fortifications and many buildings of particular interest, blending Italian and Central European architectural traditions.".

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This cover from Poland features a block showing the Royal Castle in the Historic Centre of Warsaw, the capital and main city in Poland. The Historic Centre of Warsaw is also inscribed at UNESCO as a World Heritage place. During the Warsaw Uprising in August 1944, more than 85% of Warsaw's historic centre was destroyed by Nazi troops. After the war, a five-year reconstruction campaign by its citizens resulted in a meticulous restoration of the Old Town, with its churches, palaces and market-place. It is an outstanding exemple of a near-total reconstruction.

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Joint issue Poland-Thailand (2022)

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This cover came from Poland and depicts 3 stamps, all of them related to Auschwitz Birkenau Concentration Camp. Auschwitz concentration camp was a complex of over 40 concentration and extermination camps operated by Nazi Germany in occupied Poland (in a portion annexed into Germany in 1939) during World War II and the Holocaust. It consisted of Auschwitz I, the main camp (Stammlager) in Oświęcim; Auschwitz II-Birkenau, a concentration and extermination camp with gas chambers; Auschwitz III-Monowitz, a labor camp for the chemical conglomerate IG Farben; and dozens of subcamps. The camps became a major site of the Nazis' final solution to the Jewish question. In 1947, Poland founded the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum on the site of Auschwitz I and II, and in 1979 it was named a World Heritage Site by UNESCO.

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This cover from Poland depict a se-tenant joint issue with Croatia on motive "Sources of Salt". The "4 zt" stamp on the right corner shows a picture of the Bochnia Royal Salt Mine in Poland, one of the oldest salt mines in the world and also the oldest commercial company in Poland. The Bochnia salt mine was established in 1248 after salt had been discovered there in the 12th and 13th centuries, and became part of the royal mining company. In 1990 the mine ceased producing salt but remains a tourist attraction. In 1981 the Bochnia salt mine was declared a heritage monument. It is one of Poland's official national Historic Monuments, as designated on 6 October 2000, and is overseen by the National Heritage Board of Poland. In 2013 the mine was added to the UNESCO World Heritage List as an extension of the Wieliczka Salt Mine inscription of 1978.

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This cover from Poland features 2 stamps, both showing some views of Warsaw, the capital and main city in Poland. The Historic Centre of Warsaw is also inscribed at UNESCO as a World Heritage place. During the Warsaw Uprising in August 1944, more than 85% of Warsaw's historic centre was destroyed by Nazi troops. After the war, a five-year reconstruction campaign by its citizens resulted in a meticulous restoration of the Old Town, with its churches, palaces and market-place. It is an outstanding exemple of a near-total reconstruction of a span of history covering the 13th to the 20th century

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Some historic facts related to this nice cover from Poland: during the years up to 1939, in the free state of Danzig (actually Gdansk), Polish citizens had their own Polish Post Ofiice. On September 1, 1939, the building of Polish Post was attacked by German soldiers. After the defeat battle the Polish postmen were executed. The stamps on cover commemorate the defense of Polish Post in Gdansk in 1939: the horizontal stamp commemorates the mambers of Polish Post in Gdansk that were executed.

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This nice cover from Poland depicts a single stamp issued in 2022, celebrating the Nature reserve of "Bialowieza Puszcza". Białowieża Forest (or Biełaviežskaja Pušča; Polish: Puszcza Białowieska) is one of the last and largest remaining parts of the immense primeval forest that once stretched across the European Plain. The forest is home to 800 European bison, Europe's heaviest land animal. UNESCO's Man and the Biosphere Programme designated the Polish Biosphere Reserve Białowieża in 1976 and the Belarusian Biosphere Reserve Belovezhskaya Puschcha in 1993. The forest has been designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site and an EU Natura 2000 Special Area of Conservation. The World Heritage Committee by its decision of June 2014 approved the extension of the UNESCO World Heritage site "Belovezhskaya Pushcha/Białowieża Forest, Belarus, Poland", which became "Białowieża Forest, Belarus, Poland".

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This cover from Poland depicts a se-tenant "Tourism"set issued in 2018. The stamp on the left shows a picture of the Wieliczka Salt Mine. The areas around Wieliczka and and also around Bochnia contain deposits of rock salt, which has been mined since the 13th century. Hundreds of kilometres of tunnels in both mines also contain works of art, such as sculptures carved in salt and underground chapels. The mines illustrate the development of mining technologies in Europe. Wieliczka was first listed individually in 1978. Eleven years later, it was added to the list of World Heritage in Danger due to the threats posed to the sculptures by the humidity. Following a conservation program that saw the installation of efficient dehumidifying equipment in the mine, it was removed from the endangered list in 1998. A minor boundary modification took place in 2008. The Bochnia Mine was added in 2013.

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This cover came from Poland and depicts 2 stamps, both of them related to Auschwitz Birkenau Concentration Camp. Auschwitz concentration camp was a complex of over 40 concentration and extermination camps operated by Nazi Germany in occupied Poland (in a portion annexed into Germany in 1939) during World War II and the Holocaust. It consisted of Auschwitz I, the main camp (Stammlager) in Oświęcim; Auschwitz II-Birkenau, a concentration and extermination camp with gas chambers; Auschwitz III-Monowitz, a labor camp for the chemical conglomerate IG Farben; and dozens of subcamps. The camps became a major site of the Nazis' final solution to the Jewish question. In 1947, Poland founded the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum on the site of Auschwitz I and II, and in 1979 it was named a World Heritage Site by UNESCO.

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This cover from Poland depicts 2 stamps with 2 UNESCOP World Heritage Sites: the Historic Centre of Warsaw (since 1980) and the Wooden Tserkvas of the Carpathian Region in Poland and Ukraine, a group of wooden Orthodox (and some Eastern Catholic) churches located in Poland and Ukraine which were inscribed in 2013 on the UNESCO World Heritage List.