2003.01.31  Poland Polish Cities Series
Last year Polish Post has started an issue of a new series of stamps in circulation entitled "Polish Cities", which aim is to present the architecture and the landscape of the most beautiful and oldest Polish cities. Naturally among the stamps of this series can not be missing the stamp presenting Torun - a town enchanting with its beautiful architecture, picturesquely situated on the Vistula river, called not without reason "Venice of the North". The qualities of this town has been appreciated also contemporary by placing the Old Town Complex of Torun on the list of the World Heritage of Culture and Nature of UNESCO.

Torun is famous for his unique Gothic apartment houses, splendid granaries and churches, the Old Town City Hall and the Slanting Tower. To the town adds lustre the fact that the great astronomer Nicolas Copernicus was born here. The tourists can admire his house and the museum which is him dedicated.

The specific, full of weirdness climate of the town is created not only by the monuments and the palpable on each step breath of the history but also by numerous myths and legends like: "About the rafter from Torun", "About the cat who has been defending the gates of the town", "About the cook Jordan", "About the honey-cake baker and his daughter Catherine". And speaking about honey-cakes, their taste let us understand what means the saying "heaven in mouth".

The presented stamp can not give away the qualities of the honey-cake from Torun, it shows however the most characteristic monuments of the town: the monument of Nicolas Copernicus and the Gothic towers of the Old Town City Hall. On the FDC adjoining this stamp can man see a fragment of the inside of the nave in St. Jacob church.
 

Date of circulation Jan. 31st, 2003
No. of stamps 1
Face value 1.20 PLN
Designer Andrzej Gosik
Size of the stamp 31.25 x 25.5 mm
Paper fluorescent
Printing technology steel engraving - rotogravure
Sales sheet 100 stamps
  
   
Original information and image from Polish Post