EUROPA 2020 Postage Stamp Issues

Poland
EUROPE. Former Postal Routes

29 April 2020

Polish Post issued a competition stamp which presents the most important communication and postal routes of the 16th century

The stamp design presents a fragment of a schematic map of Poland with marked main postal routes of the 16th century, along with images of foot and horse messengers.

The central part of the stamp shows the course of the Vistula River with the silhouettes of royal cities situated on its banks and the names of the cities: Kraków, Sandomierz, Warszawa, Toruń, Elbląg, Gdańsk.