Splendours of Our Homeland Banská Štiavnica

Catalogue Number:  Stamp Design:  Stamp Engraving:  Date of Issue:  Printing:  Print Technology:  Print Run:	71 Martin Činovský Martin Činovský July 19, 1995 Postal Stationery Printing House, Prague, Czech Republic Rotary-recess printing combined with recess printing 1,180,800
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 rapid burgeoning of the free royal town of Banská Štiavnica , and the renown the town enjoyed, were due to its rich ore deposits and the potential for their extraction. The town´s significance is suggested not only by the substantial size it had already attained in the Romanesque period, but also by the exuberance of its architecture. The centre of the town - a showcase which includes the town hall and the late-Gothic church of St. Catherine not to mention numerous Gothic / Renaissance town houses - acquired its definitive aspect in the course of the town´s fortifications, of which the Piarská brána gate, remodelled in baroque style, still survives. No less a part of the town´s heritage are the extensive engineering structures and artefacts associated with the mining and working of polymetalic ores. This includes not only shafts, galleries, pithead gear, bell and a highly sophisticated water supply system integrated into the landscape, but also the buildings associated with the work of the first Mining and Forestry Academy in Europe. Taken as a whole, these attributes were enough to secure Banská Štiavnica and its technological inheritance a place on UNESCO´s World Heritage List.

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