2016Joint issue Portugal - France - First Day Cover

With their grand vistas – one leading towards the triumphal arch that gives way to Praça do Comércio and the bank of the river Tejo, in Lisbon, the other linking Place de la Concorde and Place de la Madeleine, in Paris – rua Augusta and rue Royale typify the urban thinking of the Age of Enlightenment and, this year, are the subject of a philatelic issue shared between France and Portugal.