POSTCARD N.190 - PORTUGAL 

World Postcard Day - sent on the 1st October; received on the 6th October 2025.

Postcard image: Lisbon trams   

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Postcrossing was a good idea and so was World Postcard Day, which I believe, was also the brainchild of the Postcrossing team, who established it in 2020, as a way to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the creation of the Correspondenz-Karte, the first  official post card, issued by the Austrian Post on the 1st October 1869.

Ever since the first edition of WPD, special commemorative cancellations have been created for the event by CTT, the  Portuguese Postal services provider and as usual I do not let pass the date without sending out a few postcards to friends and also one to my own self.

This year I used a postcard from a series that I find quite striking , which features scenes of Lisbon drawn up in a typical graphic novel fashion by Inna  Korneeva, a talented Russian illustrator whose appreciation for our capital is quite apparent in the marvellous illustrations she produces.

To send the postcard I chose a N20g (domestic up to 20g) stamp from a very recent issue - 12SEP2025 - dedicated to Portuguese  contemporary art, featuring a light sculpture by Pedro Cabrita Reis, titled Central Tejo, which can be seen by the Tagus river in front of the Electricity Museum.

The artwork was a commission by EDP the largest electric power supplier in Portugal, whose foundation manages  Lisbon's Electricity Museum implanted in the facilities of  a former power generating central - Central Tejo.

The celebratory postmark is self-explanatory and was applied at Lisbon Restauradores Post office.