Kurt Baumgartner
Country: Switzerland
Title in the original language: La Posta in Ticino – Evoluzione storica dal XVI secolo ad oggi
Title translated into English: Swiss Post in Ticino – Historical evolution from the sixteenth century to the present day
Publisher: Locarno, Armando Dadò
Year of publication: 2024
ISBN Code: 978-88-8281-687-2
Number of pages: 768
Price: 80 CHF
Main language: Italian
Short Description: The most important places in Ticino, where there was or still is a post office, which are located on the main communication routes, are described and documented. For the municipalities described there are brief historical information, the reproduction of the main stamps in use in the post office with the dates of use, various correspondence between the Municipality and the Post Office and several period images, many important news, thanks also to the description and reproduction of many unpublished original documents. Ticino, between the Swiss Alps and the Lombard Plain, is a small territory, but as early as the sixteenth century, postal traffic through the Alps was of fundamental importance for the transmission of letters and messages between the courts and powerful people of Europe, without forgetting universities, convents, the Papal States and later merchants and merchants.
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