SAN MARINO 2011 - CHRISTMAS

This souvenir sheet summarizes the foundations of the Nativity; the family with Joseph, the Virgin Mary and child, the majesty of the newborn, the homage of the Magi, the Star of Bethlehem that guided the visitors, the exultance of the heavenly choir of angels, the symbolic appeal of the ox and the ass and the light that sallies forth from the divine, “light to illumine the people …” on the Christian Way. Mount Titano also takes part in this great celebratory day of Christmas

SAN MARINO 2011 - ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF BRESCIA CALCIO

 In 1911 Brescia football club was founded out of a merger between the football associations led by Franco Apollonio: namely, Victoria, Unione Sportiva Bresciana and Gimnasium. The first Brescia football club team was entrusted to the technical guidance of Ettore Bacchelli. In the following years Brescia managed to emerge onto the national scene and in the 1929-1930 season took part on the first Series A championship. In 1936 it was named Associazione Calcio Brescia and since 1976 has been called Brescia Calcio. The stamp features the team’s logo.

SAN MARINO 2011 - 30° ANNIVERSARY OF THE AZIENDA AUTONOMA FILATELICA E NUMISMATICA

30° ANNIVERSARY OF THE AZIENDA AUTONOMA FILATELICA E NUMISMATICA - 2011 SAN MARINO

The Law of 26 May 1981 no. 42 established the “Statute of the Azienda Autonoma di Stato Filatelica e Numismatica” to officially launch the company which receives requests to design and realize philatelic and numismatic issues for the State, manages new philatelic and numismatic items and organises promotional activities. The company’s organs include the Board of Directors, the Chairman of the Board of Directors, and the Board of Auditors.
Function and management tasks are entrusted to a physical person who assumes the position of Director. This sheet recalls and commemorates the AASFN’s thirtieth anniversary and depicts the porticoes of the old Piazzetta Giuseppe Garibaldi market, probably built no earlier than 1903 and no later than 1907. It was Luigi Reffi, stone-cutter and quarryman, owner of the stone quarry now known as the Cava Antica, who realized the market portico that crowns Piazzetta Garibaldi behind the bell tower of the San Francesco church. Nowadays, part of the porticoes house the Company, while the south-western side contains tourist shops. The sheet is completed by allegorical balloons and kites representing Philately and Numismatics.

MILAN

MILAN CHAMPION OF ITALY - 2011 SAN MARINO

This is the first team in the world in terms of the number of International titles won, but from the 2003-2004 football season the national victory was missing, and so Shield number 18, won on the field very early on with respect to the end of the championship, acquires an even more special meaning. A victory born from conviction, tenacity and the abnegation of a solid compact group. On the stamp the fans’ tribute to the San Siro stadium “lit” by the home colours. The inscription “MILAN campione d’Italia 2010-2011”, the company crest and the crest of the eighteenth championship, hold aloft the entire team. A victory flowing from a capacity for aggregation, team spirit, and the amalgam created around the company. A sporting compactness, the merit of great champions, the technical staff, the managers and the twelfth man on the field, the “Red & Black” fans, The live indissoluble soul of the club from Via Turati