Pro Patria 2007

Cultural monuments on transportation routes

ViaStoria, Swiss Post and the Swiss Pro Patria Foundation have joined forces to familiarize people of all ages with these routes steeped in history, which traverse the various cantons. This theme is of national importance and poses a challenge on a national scale. Information about the main travel and trade routes through Switzerland can only be brought to a broad public and the project's long-term success ensured by a joint effort. Because over the centuries, valuable cultural monuments have come to line historical transport routes like a veritable string of pearls, bearing witness to many facets of our past. Whole cultural landscapes have developed, recounting history and telling tales. For Swiss people, these monuments are part of their identity, and for visitors to our country, they represent a key to Switzerland. It is particularly gratifying that green tourism is being promoted against the cultural backdrop of these routes.

Pro Patria's aims

The keynote theme of "Cultural Routes in Switzerland" fits in well with Pro Patria's guiding principles and with its list of priority activities, which includes promoting historical transport and cultural routes, natural landscapes, natural monuments, religious and lay architectural monuments, railway stations and traffic and tourism structures of the past. While many national themes have been introduced in connection with preserving cultural assets, and are now firmly rooted in the national consciousness, the Pro Patria stamps constitute a valuable launch pad for the unfolding "Cultural Routes in Switzerland" project.

Postage stamps in detail

Issue: Switzerland, 27 April 2007
Design: Vito Noto
Printing: offset by Bagal Security Print, Germany
Stamp sizes: 33 x 28 mm
Perforation: 13,25 x 12,75

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