SLOVAKIA

SLOVAKIA / SLOVENSKO.

Splendors of Homeland issues.
Manínska Gorge (Manínska tiesňava).
Second stamp in a set of 2, issued on 18.09.2015.
Face value: 0.90 Euro.
Design: MariánČapka (b. Žilina, 1950). 
Engraving: Rudolf Cigánik (b. Handlová, 1961).
Printing: Photogravure and recess.
Printed by Poštovní tiskárna cenin, as, Praha.
Print: 1,000,000 copies.
Size: 26.5 x 44.1 mm.

Catalogues
- AFA No. 738.
- Michel No. 770.
- POFIS No. 594.
- Scott No. 722.
- StampWorld No. 763.
- Stanley Gibbons No. 719.
- Yvert et Tellier No. 673.

Manínska Gorge (in Slovak, Manínska tiesňava) is a national nature reserve since 1967, and is part of the Strážov Protected Landscape Mountains. It is the narrowest gorge in Slovakia and is located 6 km (3.7 miles) from Považská Bystrica, in the Súľov Mountains (in northwest part of Carpathian range), between the peaks of Veľký (890 m, 2,920 ft) and Malý Manín (812 m, 2,664 ft), which they once formed a continuous ridge of limestone. The gorge was excavated for centuries by the Manín stream; it is 800 m (2,625 ft) long and in some places only a few meters wide. In 1933 a rock was blown up to allow the construction of the paved road that runs through it.