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Balearic Islands on a map by Diogo Homem (1563).
Stamp issued on 08.07.1981.
Face value: 7 Spanish pesetas.
Printed by F.N.M.T. (Fábrica Nacional de Moneda y Timbre), Madrid.
Printing: Photogravure.
Print: 12,000,000 copies.
Size: 50 x 34 mm.

Catalogs
- AFA No. 2596.
- Edifil No. 2622.
- Michel No. 2505.
- Scott No. 2243.
- StampWorld No. 2511.
- Stanley Gibbons No. 2649.
- Yvert et Tellier No. 2250.

The Balearic Islands (Catalan: Illes Balears; Spanish: Islas Baleares) are a Spanish archipelago in the western Mediterranean Sea, near the eastern coast of the Iberian Peninsula, formed by four largest islands: Mallorca, Menorca, Ibiza, and Formentera, and many minor islands and islets. Its total area is 4,992 km² (1,927 sq mi) and its population, in 2020, was 1,215,174 inhabitants.

Diogo Homem (1521-1576) was a Portuguese cartographer, member of a family of cartographers. Due to a crime of murder, in which he was connivent, he was forced to exile from Portugal, first in England, and then in Venice. It was there that he produced numerous manuscript atlases and charts, many of them of the Mediterranean. His work is of an exceptional graphical quality and beauty.