{"id":7993,"date":"2016-01-17T06:00:58","date_gmt":"2016-01-17T11:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lighthousestampsociety.org\/wp\/?p=7993"},"modified":"2025-10-25T11:13:26","modified_gmt":"2025-10-25T15:13:26","slug":"2015-portugal-torre-de-belem-stamps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lighthousestampsociety.org\/wp\/2016\/01\/2015-portugal-torre-de-belem-stamps\/","title":{"rendered":"Portugal Torre de Bel\u00e9m Stamps, 1 Jul 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">On 1 Jul 2015 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ctt.pt\/femce\/category.jspx?shopCode=LOJV&amp;categoryCode=8242&amp;showAll=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CTT (Portugal Post)<\/a>&nbsp;issued a set of three stamps and a souvenir sheet to commemorate the 500th anniversary of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/@38.692075,-9.215341,3a,75y,90t\/data=!3m8!1e2!3m6!1sAF1QipMolRGzbNnN6KhRusVj9gn78J8AuRQ0DvgqZRCM!2e10!3e12!6shttps:%2F%2Flh5.googleusercontent.com%2Fp%2FAF1QipMolRGzbNnN6KhRusVj9gn78J8AuRQ0DvgqZRCM%3Dw203-h143-k-no!7i2081!8i1474\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Torre de Bel\u00e9m<\/a>. The tower, located at Lisbon, was completed in the early 16th century and was used as a lighthouse from the late 1880&#8217;s until about 1945. It has been inactive for the past 70 years. The stamps are available from <a href=\"http:\/\/wopa-stamps.com\/index.php?controller=country&amp;action=stampProduct&amp;id=18881\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WOPA stamps<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a class=\"ngg-fancybox\" title=\"Torre de Bel\u00e9m L\/H | 1 Jul 2015 - Image source: Universal Postal Union\" href=\"http:\/\/lighthousestampsociety.org\/wp\/stamps-portugal\/prt_s_1043a.jpg\" rel=\"\" data-image-id=\"10988\" data-src=\"http:\/\/lighthousestampsociety.org\/wp\/stamps-portugal\/prt_s_1043a.jpg\" data-thumbnail=\"http:\/\/lighthousestampsociety.org\/wp\/stamps-portugal\/thumbs\/thumbs_prt_s_1043a.jpg\" data-title=\"Torre de Bel\u00e9m L\/H | 1 Jul 2015 - Image source: Universal Postal Union\" data-description=\"Torre de Bel\u00e9m L\/H | 1 Jul 2015 - Image source: Universal Postal Union\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"ngg-singlepic ngg-none alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/lighthousestampsociety.org\/wp\/stamps-portugal\/prt_s_1043a.jpg\" alt=\"Torre de Bel\u00e9m L\/H | 1 Jul 2015 - Image source: Universal Postal Union\" width=\"201\" height=\"152\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"ngg-fancybox\" title=\"Torre de Bel\u00e9m L\/H | 1 Jul 2015 - Image source: Universal Postal Union\" href=\"http:\/\/lighthousestampsociety.org\/wp\/stamps-portugal\/prt_s_1044a.jpg\" rel=\"\" data-image-id=\"10986\" data-src=\"http:\/\/lighthousestampsociety.org\/wp\/stamps-portugal\/prt_s_1044a.jpg\" data-thumbnail=\"http:\/\/lighthousestampsociety.org\/wp\/stamps-portugal\/thumbs\/thumbs_prt_s_1044a.jpg\" data-title=\"Torre de Bel\u00e9m L\/H | 1 Jul 2015 - Image source: Universal Postal Union\" data-description=\"Torre de Bel\u00e9m L\/H | 1 Jul 2015 - Image source: Universal Postal Union\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"ngg-singlepic ngg-none\" src=\"http:\/\/lighthousestampsociety.org\/wp\/stamps-portugal\/prt_s_1044a.jpg\" alt=\"Torre de Bel\u00e9m L\/H | 1 Jul 2015 - Image source: Universal Postal Union\" width=\"200\" height=\"152\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"ngg-fancybox\" title=\"Torre de Bel\u00e9m L\/H | 1 Jul 2015 - Image source: Universal Postal Union\" href=\"http:\/\/lighthousestampsociety.org\/wp\/stamps-portugal\/prt_s_1045a.jpg\" rel=\"\" data-image-id=\"10995\" data-src=\"http:\/\/lighthousestampsociety.org\/wp\/stamps-portugal\/prt_s_1045a.jpg\" data-thumbnail=\"http:\/\/lighthousestampsociety.org\/wp\/stamps-portugal\/thumbs\/thumbs_prt_s_1045a.jpg\" data-title=\"Torre de Bel\u00e9m L\/H | 1 Jul 2015 - Image source: Universal Postal Union\" data-description=\"Torre de Bel\u00e9m L\/H | 1 Jul 2015 - Image source: Universal Postal Union\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"ngg-singlepic ngg-none alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/lighthousestampsociety.org\/wp\/stamps-portugal\/prt_s_1045a.jpg\" alt=\"Torre de Bel\u00e9m L\/H | 1 Jul 2015 - Image source: Universal Postal Union\" width=\"200\" height=\"156\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"ngg-fancybox\" title=\"Torre de Bel\u00e9m | 1 Jul 2015 - Image source: Universal Postal Union\" href=\"http:\/\/lighthousestampsociety.org\/wp\/stamps-portugal\/prt_s_1046a.jpg\" rel=\"\" data-image-id=\"10992\" data-src=\"http:\/\/lighthousestampsociety.org\/wp\/stamps-portugal\/prt_s_1046a.jpg\" data-thumbnail=\"http:\/\/lighthousestampsociety.org\/wp\/stamps-portugal\/thumbs\/thumbs_prt_s_1046a.jpg\" data-title=\"Torre de Bel\u00e9m | 1 Jul 2015 - Image source: Universal Postal Union\" data-description=\"Torre de Bel\u00e9m | 1 Jul 2015 - Image source: Universal Postal Union\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"ngg-singlepic ngg-none\" src=\"http:\/\/lighthousestampsociety.org\/wp\/stamps-portugal\/prt_s_1046a.jpg\" alt=\"Torre de Bel\u00e9m | 1 Jul 2015 - Image source: Universal Postal Union\" width=\"202\" height=\"77\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"ngg-fancybox\" title=\"Torre de Bel\u00e9m | 1 Jul 2015 - Image source: Universal Postal Union\" href=\"http:\/\/lighthousestampsociety.org\/wp\/stamps-portugal\/prt_s_1047a.jpg\" rel=\"\" data-image-id=\"10993\" data-src=\"http:\/\/lighthousestampsociety.org\/wp\/stamps-portugal\/prt_s_1047a.jpg\" data-thumbnail=\"http:\/\/lighthousestampsociety.org\/wp\/stamps-portugal\/thumbs\/thumbs_prt_s_1047a.jpg\" data-title=\"Torre de Bel\u00e9m | 1 Jul 2015 - Image source: Universal Postal Union\" data-description=\"Torre de Bel\u00e9m | 1 Jul 2015 - Image source: Universal Postal Union\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"ngg-singlepic ngg-none\" src=\"http:\/\/lighthousestampsociety.org\/wp\/stamps-portugal\/prt_s_1047a.jpg\" alt=\"Torre de Bel\u00e9m | 1 Jul 2015 - Image source: Universal Postal Union\" width=\"200\" height=\"152\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">See other lighthouse stamps from Portugal <a href=\"http:\/\/lighthousestampsociety.org\/wp\/images-2\/stamps\/stamps-countries-o-r\/stamps-portugal\/\">here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 1 Jul 2015 CTT (Portugal Post)&nbsp;issued a set of three stamps and a souvenir sheet to commemorate the 500th anniversary of the Torre de Bel\u00e9m. The tower, located at Lisbon, was completed in the early 16th century and was &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/lighthousestampsociety.org\/wp\/2016\/01\/2015-portugal-torre-de-belem-stamps\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[172,159],"tags":[401],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lighthousestampsociety.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7993"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lighthousestampsociety.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lighthousestampsociety.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lighthousestampsociety.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lighthousestampsociety.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7993"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/lighthousestampsociety.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7993\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23069,"href":"http:\/\/lighthousestampsociety.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7993\/revisions\/23069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lighthousestampsociety.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lighthousestampsociety.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lighthousestampsociety.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}