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100 Years from Mount Olympus First Ascent.
Second stamp in a set of 4, issued on 19.07.2013.
Face value: 0,10 euro.
Printing: Offset typography and hot stamping.
Print: 1,000,000 copies.
Size: 40.5 x 40 mm.

Catalogs
- Karamitsos No. 2764.
- Michel No. 2722.
- Scott No. 2582.
- StampWorld No. 2678.
- Stanley Gibbons No. 2782.
- Yvert et Tellier No. 2669.

Olympus or Mount Olympus (in Greek: Όλυμπος) is the highest mountain in Greece and the second of the Balkan Peninsula (after Musala, in Bulgaria), with 2,918 m (9,573 ft) of altitude. Located between the Greek regions of Thessaly and Macedonia, it has been a Greek nature reserve since 1938 and a natural heritage of the European Union since 1981, in its category of biosphere reserve. The first documented ascent is that of the expedition of Christos Kakkalos, Frédéric Boissonnas and Daniel Baud-Bovy on August 2, 1913.

For Greek mythology, Olympus was the home of the Olympians (Olympian gods), the main gods of the Greek pantheon, presided over by Zeus. The ancient Greeks believed that on the summits of the mountain there were built glass mansions in which the gods dwelt.