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Italy - Centenary of Italian Railways

The series of the Centenary of Italian Railways is a series of stamps of the Kingdom of Italy issued December 15, 1939 to celebrate the hundred years since the inauguration of the first Italian railway Naples-Portici, which unfolded on the Tyrrhenian coast at the foot of Vesuvius.

The Naples-Portici railway was the first railway line built in Italian territory, in the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies, it was double-track and had a length of just over seven kilometers (7.25 km) and was inaugurated on 3 October 1839 with great solemnity

The stamps of the series, printed in rotogravure in sheets of 60 (x4), have as their subject the steam locomotive of the first Italian train (operating on the Naples-Portici line) and a more modern electric train.

Italy - "Ginnici"

Series of 3 stamps issued by the Italian Republic on May 18, 1951 to commemorate the Feasts and International Gymnastics Competitions held in Florence.

This event was divided into team competitions with the participation of over 4,000 gymnasts, military competitions, tournaments of nations and Olympic representations.

More than 25 nations participated in the event including Japan, Russia and U.S.A.

Florence 1951

Symbols of the International Gymnastic Festival and Meet

Italy 1946 - Advent of the Republic

Italy - Stamps of 1946 - Proclamation of the Republic

This is the first real set of stamps Republicans (ie issued after the end of the monarchy), and could be defined, simultaneously, both celebrative, that commemorative.

Italy 1949 - 75th anniv. of the UPU

75th Anniversary of UPU

The Universal Postal Union is a specialized agency of the United Nations that coordinates postal policies among member countries, in addition to the worldwide postal system. Before the establishment of the UPU, each country had to prepare a separate treaty with other nations that post had wanted to bring international mail to and from. The UPU was created in 1874

Italy - Stamps issued in 1952

Italy is a unitary parliamentary republic in southern Europe. Rome, the capital of Italy, was for centuries a political and religious center of western civilization as the capital of the Roman Empire and site of the Holy See. After the fall of the Roman Empire, Italy endured numerous invasions by foreign peoples, and for most of its post-Roman history, Italy was fragmented into numerous city and regional states, but was unified in 1861. In the late 19th century, Italy possessed a colonial empire. Italy plays a prominent role in the military, european and world cultural, diplomatic and affairs.

150th anniversary of the birth of

Vincenzo Bellini

Palace of Caserta and

Statuary

First International Exhibition of Sports Stamps.

30th Milan Trade Fair

Leonardo da Vinci, 500th birth anniv.

Cent. of the 1st postage stamps of Modena

and Parma.

Overseas Fair at Naples and

Italian labor throughout the world.

26th Biennial Art Exhibition, Venice

30th International Sample Fair of Padua.

4th International Sample Fair of Trieste

16th Levant Fair, Bari

500th anniversary of the birth of Girolamo

Savonarola.

National Exhibition of the Alpine troops

First International Civil Aviation Conference, Rome

Centenary of the establishment of the first Catholic mission in Ethiopia.

Armed Forces Day

Italy -1952 - Birth centenaries of Antonio Mancini

Italy -1952 - Birth centenaries of Vincenzo Gemito

Birth centenaries of Vincenzo Gemito and Antonio Mancini

Centenary of the deaths of the five Martyrs of Belfiore.

Italy - Stamps of 1948 -

Italy is a unitary parliamentary republic in southern Europe. Rome, the capital of Italy, was for centuries a political and religious center of Western civilization as the capital of the Roman Empire and site of the Holy See. After the fall of the Roman Empire, Italy endured numerous invasions by foreign peoples, and for most of its post-Roman history, Italy was fragmented into numerous city and regional states, but was unified in 1861. In the late 19th century, Italy possessed a colonial empire. Italy plays a prominent role in the military, European and world cultural, diplomatic and affairs.