Correos is issuing a new souvenir sheet, in this case dedicated to Sustainable City, with some of Madrid's most beautiful and important parks as motifs.
The block sheet contains eight vignettes dedicated to these parks: Jardines del Buen Retiro, Parque Dehesa de la Villa, Parque Quinta de los Molinos, Parque de la Casa de Campo, Parque del Oeste, Quinta de Torre Arias, Quinta de la Fuente del Berro and the Jardines de los Palacios de la Finca de Vista Alegre.
The stamp shows an intaglio image of the Templete de Baco, an elliptical construction in the Parque de El Capricho, which has contained a sculpture of the god Bacchus since the first decades of the 19th century.
It is one of the most outstanding and beautiful constructions in the Alameda de Osuna park, declared an Artistic Garden in 1934, today an Asset of Cultural Interest as a Historic Garden.
It was built between 1786 and 1789 during the first phase of the garden's construction, in the time of Doña María Josefa de la Soledad Alonso-Pimentel y Téllez Girón, Countess-Duchess of Benavente and Duchess of Osuna, who between 1784 and 1834 was the main promoter of this spectacular and romantic park.
In 2015, the United Nations General Assembly approved the Sustainable Development Goals that make up the so-called 2030 Agenda, a universal agenda that places human rights at the forefront. One of its fundamental axes is the sustainable development of our societies and, in particular, of large cities. It is in this context that the capital of our country is committed to the conservation and promotion of its natural spaces.
Encouraging the conservation and development of parks in large cities favours this fundamental objective, helping to combat pollution, the fight against climate change and also offering citizens a space from which to escape the hustle and bustle of urban centres without leaving them.
In an increasingly urbanised world, these places are an oasis in the middle of the desert.
