For youth 2011: Budapest's City park
Date of issue: 8 April 2011
In 2011 the sights of Budapest’s City Park provide the subject for the stamp.
Budapest’s City Park is in the capital’s District
XIV and was built for the city’s celebrations of the millennium of the
Conquest of Hungary. This was when the lake in the City Park was
regulated, two channels of the Páva Island were filled in and the Rákos
Stream was led into the lake. The City Park Boulevard was made, and
Vajdahunyad Castle and Heroes’ Square were built. Although constructed
at the time of the 1896 Budapest world exposition, many entertainment
and cultural facilities were added which have been in use to the present
day. Behind Heroes’ Square are the Ice Rink, Boating Lake and
Vajdahunyad Castle, home to the Museum of Hungarian Agriculture. A
boulevard skirts the lake, on which the Budapest Zoo and Botanical
Garden lies with a splendid range of flora and fauna. Here Budapest’s
thermal baths with the deepest borehole and hottest water, the Széchenyi
Baths, can be found. Opposite the Baths is the round building of the
Budapest Grand Circus, where the first performance was held in 1891.
Next to the Circus is the Funfair, which has been operating in its
present form since 1950 but its history dates back to the early 1800s.
(Source: budapest.com * hu.wikipedia.org)
The
stamp designs of the miniature sheet show the well-known sights of the
City Park in a characteristic graphic composition, which are in the
order of the stamps the Budapest Zoo and Botanical Garden, the Funfair,
Vajdahunyad Castle, the Ice Rink and the Boating Lake. The second and
fourth stamps in the miniature sheet contain a surcharge. Magyar Posta
devotes the proceeds from the surcharge to supporting youth stamp
collecting. The amount of the surcharge may not be used to pay for
postage. The silhouette of the building of the Széchenyi Baths appears
on the first day cover for the miniature sheet and the design of the
special postmark employs a stylised picture of balloons.
SO
Order code: 2011070040011 (miniature sheet) 2011070060012 (FDC)
Date of issue: 8 April 2011
Total face value: HUF 640+100
Number of copies issued: 80,000
Perforated size of the stamps: 30 x 45 mm
Imperforated size of the miniature sheet: 140 x 70 mm
Printing method: 4 colour offset
Printed by Pénzjegynyomda
Designed by Attila Elekes