Atomium - Brussels, Belgium
Posted by: Groundspeak Premium Member Metro2
N 50° 53.678 E 004° 20.489
31U E 594342 N 5638964
The Atomium was built for the 1958 World's Fair.
Waymark Code: WMH9WW
Location: Belgium
Date Posted: 06/12/2013
Published By:Groundspeak Premium Member silverquill
Views: 37

This air mail priority stamp was issued in 2011 and has a 1 Euro denomination.
It depucts the famous Mannequin Pis sculpture in the foreground with the Atomium in the background.
"Belgie" and "Belgique" appear on the stamp of this bilingual country.

Wikipedia (visit link) has this to say about the Atomium:

"The Atomium is a monument in Brussels, originally built for Expo '58, the 1958 Brussels World's Fair. Designed by André Waterkeyn, it stands 102 metres (335 ft) tall. It has nine steel spheres connected so that the whole forms the shape of a unit cell of an iron crystal magnified 165 billion times.

Tubes connect the spheres along the 12 edges of the cube and all eight vertices to the centre. They enclose escalators connecting the spheres containing exhibit halls and other public spaces. The top sphere provides a panoramic view of Brussels. Each sphere is 18 metres in diameter. Three spheres are currently (2008) closed to visitors, others can be reached easily by escalators. The vertical vertex contains a lift which was very fast and advanced at the time of building (the speed is 5 m/s)."
Stamp Issuing Country: Belgium

Date of Issue: 2011

Denomination: 1 Euro

Color: multi-colored

Stamp Type: Single Stamp

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