POSTCARD N.63 - Spain

Postcrossing postcard sent on the 4th January; received on the 20th January
Postcard image: Málaga Cathedral
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I was once in Málaga on the 15th August, a day that the catholic calendar registers as the day of the Assumption of the Holy Mother and also the day that was chosen to celebrate the conquest of the city from the Moors by the Catholic Kings Ferdinand and Isabella in 1487.

On that particular day, I'm sure you cannot find a place in the world more alive and buzzing than this Costa del Sol town, well known for its beaches that makes it a stopping point for the huge cruise ships that ferry hordes of tourists around the Mediterranean sea.

And what a sight it is, to see all those lovely ladies from 8 to 80 in their colourful sensual fiesta dresses so tight on their bodies  that they always seem to be about to explode and the  joyful and proud caballeros also dressed in traditional atire parading through the streets so as to see and, what's more, to be seen, while everywhere bottles of sweet moscatel wine flow as easy as the loud and happy conversations that bring together friends, relatives and tourists engulfing the whole city in  excitement and trepidation.

Thank you so much Anna, for a great postcard and for rekindling my memories of that day.

The postcard shows the North tower of the Santa Iglesia Catedral Basílica de la Encarnación standing 84 m high (the second highest Andalusian cathedral tower, only surpassed by the Giralda in Seville). The South tower was never finished what imparts a decidedly unbalanced aura to the building when viewed from head on, but also gives the cathedral another claim to fame.

Anna used a  self-adhesive Tariff B (up to 20g anywhere in Europe) stamp featuring King Felipe VI, issued on 02JAN2020 along with a tariff A (domestic, up to 20 g). Both stamps feature the same image, the difference being that the Tariff A stampis totally tinted in a bluish hue.

The machine applied postmark tells us that the postcard was processed in Malaga and it has an almost illegible vignette that reads Correos - La Compañia de todos (Correos, everyone's company).