• 12 months - 12 stamps

    Spain  2018.05.03

    In issue: Stamp(s): 2   

    Printing: offset on self-adhesive phosphorescent paper

    Issued in: sheets of 50 (5*10) stamps each

    Printable Version

  • Perforation type: 13 ¼x12 ¾

    Subject:

    Tariff A - suitable for payment of a standard 20-gram departure for Spain. At the time of the release of this stamp in circulation - 55 cents.

    Letters TO - the first syllable of the name of Toledo province and a collage of its main symbols*

    Additional:

    The main symbols of Toledo province represented on the stamp are Manhole Cover, Marzipan, Dulzaina, Alcazar, Saffron, El Greco, Red-legged Partidge, Stone lion of the Santa María Cathedral, Don Quixote and Windmills of Consuegra. 

    Why is Don Quixote? 
    Cervantes paid homage to Toledo, a province he admired. Chapter IX of his master work is fully dedicated to the city.

    And why are Windmills of Consuegra?
    This windmills that dot the hillsides of Consuegra inspired Cervantes’s famous Tilting at Windmills episode in his novel Don Quixote.

    Topics: Don Quijote Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra Windmills