" MEXICO'S CARNIVAL , CARNAVAL OF VERACRUZ"
18 - FEBRUARY - 2009

The Carnival of Veracruz is, undoubtedly, the holiday par excellence of the port, while collective catharsis clatter and a meeting point for a secular, rich and variegated popular urban culture. Several days to lay the Veracruz will start andalusia cyclic schedule "normal",
while everyday life.

As early as 1705 are mentioned in the port of Veracruz the "excesses in the festivities of Shrovetide, and in 1768 was denounced before the Tribunal of the Holy Office in the habit of" altars that are placed in private houses and barracks with multitude of lights and music which is why Sara and are committed indecency in front of many sacred images ...".

 

DESIGNER:  LUÍS ORDÓÑEZ

TECHNIQUE: ILLUSTRATION AND COMPOSITION BY COMPUTER

INKS USED: CYAN, MAGENTA, YELLOW, BLACK, AND
SECURITY INK

IMPRESSION: OFFSET

SIZE: 40 x 48 mm

PERFORATION: 13  COMB

WITH: 25 STAMPS

PAPER: WHITE COUCHÉ KILLS, A GUMMED FACE OF 110 g/m2

PRINTED BY: PRINT - ROOMS OF STAMPS AND VALUES

ISSUE:  200,000

YEAR: 2008

FACE VALUE: $6.50