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2024 70 Years of Rainier III Zoological Gardens - First Day Cover

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Issue Date: 05.02.2024
Designer: Photo: © Archives of the Prince’s Palace
Process: Steel-engraving
Size: 40,85 x 30 mm horizontal
Values: €1.29

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About 70 Years of Rainier III Zoological Gardens

A great animal lover, Prince Rainier III founded the Monaco Zoological Acclimatization Center in 1954 after a trip to Africa from which He returned with around thirty injured animals. Overlooking the Port of Fontvieille on the southern flank of the Rock, the zoological gardens are home to nearly three hundred animals of around sixty different species. What makes them unique is that their animals were all donated, or were abandoned or seized by customs.

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