Atomium, Heysel Park, Brussels, Belgium
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The series of four stamps emitted in ocassion of Brussels World's Fair EXPO '58.
Waymark Code: WM8G6Y
Location: Brussels, Belgium
Date Posted: 03/29/2010
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The serie of stamps with famous Belgium landmark Atomium was emitted in 1957, one year before opening of World's Fair EXPO '58.
The Atomium was the main pavilion and icon of the World's Fair. It symbolised the democratic will to maintain peace among all the nations, faith in progress, both technical and scientific and, finally, an optimistic vision of the future of a modern, new, super-technological world for a better life for mankind.
The peaceful use of atomic energy for scientific purposes embodied these themes particularly well and, so, that is what determined the shape of the edifice. At 102 metres high, with its nine interconnected spheres, it represents an elementary iron crystal enlarged 165 billion (thousand million) times. It was dreamed up by the engineer André Waterkeyn (1917-2005). The spheres, though, were fitted out by the architects André and Jean Polak.
The Atomium was not intended to survive beyond the 1958 World Fair but its popularity and success soon made it a key landmark, first of Brussels then internationally.
Stamp Issuing Country: Belgium
Date of Issue: April 17, 1957
Denomination: 2, 2.5, 4 and 5 Belgium Francs
Color: red (2 Fr), green (2.5 Fr.), violet blue (4 Fr) and brown purple(5 Fr)
Stamp Type: Single Stamp
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