
:: ITALY :: THEME: Fosse Ardeatine :: NOMINAL VALUE: 0.80 € :: ISSUE DATE: 25 April 2015 :: DESIGN: Luca Romani |
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Stamp shows a detail of the solemn entrance gate to the Ardeatine Caves Memorial Cemetery, a bronze work sculpted by Mirko Basaldella as a figurative representation of the horror of the cruel massacre perpetrated by the German troops occupying Rome on 24 March 1944 in the caves in Via Ardeatina.
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FIRST DAY COVER

ISSUE DATE: | 25 April 2015 |
NOMINAL VALUE: | 0.80 € |
CIRCULATION: | 800 000 |
STAMP DESIGN: | Luca Romani |
STAMP SIZE: | 48 mm x 40 mm |
PERFORATION: | die-cut, size 11 |
ADHESIVE: | acrylic, water-based adhesive, pread in a quantity of 20 g/m² dry. |
PAPER: | non-fluorescent, self-adhesive, neutral glossy white |
PRINTER: | Istituto Poligrafico e Zecca dello Stato S.p.A. |