ALBANIA

ALBANIA / SHQIPERIA.

Tourism.
Flowers Lake at Lurë.
Last stamp in a set of 6, issued in 03.1965.
Face value: 9 Albanian lek.
Printing: Offset lithography.
Print: 80,000 copies.

Catalogs
- Michel No. 931.
- Scott No. 806.
- StampWorld No. 940.
- Stanley Gibbons No. 892.
- Yvert et Tellier No. 757.

The Lura Lakes (Albanian: Liqenet e Lurës) in the Lurë-Dejës National Park, have an area of 1280 hectares and are located in the eastern part of the Kunora e Lurës mountain. These are seven glacial lakes, located at an altitude of between 1,350 and 1,720 m (4,429 and 5,643 ft) above the level of the sea. The largest are the Great Lake (Liqeni i Madh), the Lake of Pines (Liqeni i Pishave), the Black Lake (Liqeni i Zi) and the Lake of Flowers (Liqeni i Luleve, represented in the stamp), which It has an area of 4 hectares. In winter the lakes are covered with ice.