Stamp: Bridge and Castle, Huy (Belgium 1965)

Bridge and Castle, Huy (Belgium 1965)

01 January (Belgium ) within release Tourist Issues goes into circulation Stamp Bridge and Castle, Huy face value 50 Belgian centime

Stamp Bridge and Castle, Huy in catalogues
Michel: Mi:BE 1409
Stamp Number: Sn:BE 642
Yvert et Tellier: Yt:BE 1352
Belgium: Bel:BE 1352

Stamp is square format.

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Stamp Bridge and Castle, Huy in digits
Country: Belgium
Date: 1965-01-01
Print: Recess
Perforation: comb 11½ x 11¾
Emission: Definitive
Format: Stamp
Face Value: 50 Belgian centime
Print run: 29523314

Stamp Bridge and Castle, Huy it reflects the thematic directions:

Tourism is travel for pleasure or business; also the theory and practice of touring, the business of attracting, accommodating, and entertaining tourists, and the business of operating tours. Tourism may be international, or within the traveller's country. The World Tourism Organization defines tourism more generally, in terms which go "beyond the common perception of tourism as being limited to holiday activity only", as people "traveling to and staying in places outside their usual environment for not more than one consecutive year for leisure, business and other purposes". Tourism can be domestic or international, and international tourism has both incoming and outgoing implications on a country's balance of payments. Today, tourism is a major source of income for many countries, and affects the economy of both the source and host countries, in some cases being of vital importance.

 

A bridge is a structure built to span physical obstacles without closing the way underneath such as a body of water, valley, or road, for the purpose of providing passage over the obstacle. There are many different designs that each serve a particular purpose and apply to different situations. Designs of bridges vary depending on the function of the bridge, the nature of the terrain where the bridge is constructed and anchored, the material used to make it, and the funds available to build it.

A castle (from Latin: castellum) is a type of fortified structure built in Europe and the Middle East during the Middle Ages by European nobility. Scholars debate the scope of the word castle, but usually consider it to be the private fortified residence of a lord or noble. This is distinct from a palace, which is not fortified; from a fortress, which was not always a residence for nobility; and from a fortified settlement, which was a public defence – though there are many similarities among these types of construction. Usage of the term has varied over time and has been applied to structures as diverse as hill forts and country houses. Over the approximately 900 years that castles were built, they took on a great many forms with many different features, although some, such as curtain walls and arrowslits, were commonplace.

In the visual arts, a cityscape (urban landscape) is an artistic representation, such as a painting, drawing, print or photograph, of the physical aspects of a city or urban area. It is the urban equivalent of a landscape. Townscape is roughly synonymous with cityscape, though it implies the same difference in urban size and density (and even modernity) implicit in the difference between the words city and town. In urban design the terms refer to the configuration of built forms and interstitial space. 

Stamp, Bridge and Castle, Huy, Belgium,  , Tourism, Bridges, Castles, Townscapes / City Views