Splendours of Our Homeland Vlkolínec

Catalogue Number:  Stamp Design:  Stamp Engraving:  Date of Issue:  Printing:  Print Technology:  Print Run:	73 Martin Činovský Martin Činovský July 19, 1995 Postal Stationery Printing House, Prague, Czech Republic Rotary-recess printing combined with recess printing 1,200,000
FDC Design:	Martin Činovský
FDC Engraving:	Martin Činovský
Cancellation Design:	Martin Činovský
Printing:	Postal Stationery Printing House, Prague, Czech Republic
Print Technology:	Recess printing from flat plates
FDC Print Run:	10,000
The hamlet of Vlkolínec exemplifies a certain type of Central Slovakia settlement with the wooden architecture to be found in the mountain and foothills regions. This self-contained constellation of log houses lies amid a landscape of narrow strips of field and pasture sheltered from the north by the Sidorovo massif. The centre of the hamlet boasts a belfry from the year 1770 and a well. Both of these free-standing structures were built in the traditional manner and are roofed - as originally were all the houses and other buildings - with shingle. Vlkolínec has been adjudged the best-preserved example of its kind in the Carpathian region, an estimation which contributed to its inclusion in UNESCO´ s World Heritage List.

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