Sunday 3 May 2015

Giro d'Italia 50th edition commemorative stamps, from 1967

As a sort of continuation of the last blog post, here are all (?) the stamps that the Italian post issued to the 50th edition of Giro d'Italia, in 1967. We think they're all beautiful.

Ciclisti in salita/Cyclists uphill. Just as a note: Grain Edit (mentioned below) writes that the best climber wears il maglia verde - the green jersey, which signifies the best climber in the mountain stages. That's not really true. The best climber wears il maglia azzurra - the blue jersey.

We borrowed these images from Grain Edit. Hope that's OK!

Ciclisti in volata/Cyclists in the peloton (Note that the cyclist in the front wears il maglia rosa - the pink jersey (that the general time classification leader wears))

Respect to the artists Consolazione, Cuzzani and de Stefani. And thanks to Kadi, who tipped us about all the stamps.

Ride safe!

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