Switzerland - Lady's slipper card with little prince stamp,

 Thank you so much Karin!

Switzerland - Marriage for all!

I bought this one recently! A beautiful design.

About Marriage for All!

On 26 September, Swiss Voters said "YES" to the "Marriage for all" initiative. Swiss Post is commemorating this decision with a special stamp. It was issued on 1 July 2022, the day on which the new law came into force.

 According to the website of the "Marriage for all" committee, the LGBTIQ+community* in our country numbers some half a million people. The fact that everyone will be allowed to marry from this summer onwards constitutes another milestone on the road to equality. Altjhough homosexual acts were decriminalized as early as 1942, it was not until 1 January 2000 that discrimination on the basis of secual orientation was prohibited under constitutional law. The Same Sex Partnership Act was introduced in 2007, allowing the registration of same sex partnerships. And from 1 July 2022, marriage is now also possible.

 The design of the traditional or digital stamps shows balloons in the colours of the familiar rainbow flag rising into the sky. Releasing balloons is a typical custom at many weddings, with the cards they carry generally sending congratulations to the new couple far and wide. Fittingly, the cards for the design say "YES: in all four national languages. 

Source : Swiss Post

 

PC#156 Switzerland, UNESCO site: Monte San Giorgio;

Sent: 15/4/2016

Arrived: 4/5/2016

Monte San Giorgio

UNESCO site
Date of Insscription: 2003

Brief synthesis

The pyramid-shaped, wooded mountain of Monte San Giorgio beside Lake Lugano is regarded as the best fossil record of marine life from the Triassic Period (245 – 230 million years ago). The sequence records life in a tropical lagoon environment, sheltered and partially separated from the open sea by an offshore reef. Diverse marine life flourished within this lagoon, including reptiles, fish, bivalves, ammonites, echinoderms and crustaceans. Because the lagoon was near to land, the fossil remains also include some land-based fossils including reptiles, insects and plants. The result is a fossil resource of great richness.

Criterion (viii): 

Monte San Giorgio is the single best known record of marine life in the Triassic period, and records important remains of life on land as well. The property has produced diverse and numerous fossils, many of which show exceptional completeness and detailed preservation. The long history of study of the property and the disciplined management of the resource have created a well documented and catalogued body of specimens of exceptional quality, and are the basis for a rich associated geological literature. As a result, Monte San Giorgio provides the principal point of reference, relevant to future discoveries of marine Triassic remains throughout the world.

Source: unesco.org

Thank you Ania!

Cover#85 Switzerland, Cover with the Virgin and Christ MS,

I have new topic for my collection: The Virgin and Christ. The first one I got is from Austria.

Sent:12/3/2015

Arrived:23/3/2015

Thank you so much Rosmarie.

Cover#026 Switzerland

Sent: 27/10/2014

Arrived: 10/11/2014

Thank you Hansjurg!

PC#026 Switzerland, Rhaetian Railway in the Albula / Bernina Landscapes

Rhaetian Railway in the Albula / Bernina Landscapes

UNESCO site

Date of inscription: 2008

Rhaetian Railway in the Albula / Bernina Landscapes, brings together two historic railway lines that cross the Swiss Alps through two passes. Opened in 1904, the Albula line in the north western part of the property is 67 km long. It features an impressive set of structures including 42 tunnels and covered galleries and 144 viaducts and bridges. The 61 km Bernina pass line features 13 tunnels and galleries and 52 viaducts and bridges. The property is exemplary of the use of the railway to overcome the isolation of settlements in the Central Alps early in the 20th century, with a major and lasting socio-economic impact on life in the mountains. It constitutes an outstanding technical, architectural and environmental ensemble and embodies architectural and civil engineering achievements, in harmony with the landscapes through which they pass.

Source: UNESCO.org

Sent: 22/10/2014

Arrived: 6/11/2014

Thank you Isabella!

Cover#019 Switzerland, EUROPA 2014,

I got a beautiful cover from Switzerland today with a pair of mint stamps inside.

 Sent: 22/9/2014

Arrived: 11/10/2014

Thank you so much Rosmarie :) !