ITALY

ITALY / ITALIA.

National Parks.
Stelvio National Park and Red Deer Stag (Cervus elaphus).
Third stamp in a set of 4, issued on 22.04.1967.
Face value: 90 Italian lire.
Design: Corrado Mancioli (1904-1968).
Printed by I.P.S. (Istituto Poligrafico dello Stato), Officina Carte e Valori, Roma.
Printing: Photogravure.
Print: 12,000,000 copies.
Size: 40 x 30 mm.

Catalogs
- AFA No.
- Michel No. 1228.
- Sassone No. 1062.
- Scott No. 955.
- StampWorld No. 1204.
- Stanley Gibbons No. 1179.
- Unificato No. 1042.
- Yvert et Tellier No. 966.

Stelvio National Park (Italian: Parco nazionale dello Stelvio; German: Nationalpark Stilfser Joch), established in 1935, is located in northeast Italy, and covers part of the regions Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol and Lombardy, in 24 municipalities. It has borders with the Swiss National Park, Adamello Brenta Natural Park, and Adamello Regional Park; Together, these parks comprise 400,000 hectares (1,500 sq mi) of protected natural environment in the heart of the Alps. The park includes an extensive territory of valleys and high mountains, ranging from 650 m (2,130 ft) to 3,905 m (12,812 ft) in height. In its territory there are large forests, agricultural areas, mountain farms, farmhouses and inhabited towns. In the Park you can find deer, chamois, roe deer, mountain goats, marmots, foxes, stoats, squirrels, hares, badgers and weasels, among other animals.

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Thanks to Fadda Giuseppe for his contribution.