They say Guimarães is the place where Portugal was born, the cradle of the nation. This small city in the north of the country has a lot to offer and is this year’s European Capital of Culture (along with Maribor in Slovenia).
The students and teachers from the local secondary school “Martins Sarmento” in Guimarães want to involve Postcrossing in the celebrations. Their idea is to build a heart-shaped mosaic resembling the logo of the European Capital of Culture.
And for that of course, they need your help! The school invites all postcrossers to send a postcard until March 9th to the following address:
Escola Secundária Martins Sarmento
A/C Cristiana Cerdeira
Alameda Prof. Abel Salazar
4810–247 Guimarães
Portugal
You can write a personal message, your thoughts on Guimarães or just “I am part of it!”.
Write your e-mail address as well: you’ll receive an e-mail from them with a picture of the finished mosaic. The first 20 postcards received will also receive a postcard from the European Capital of Culture.
The students from the school “Martins Sarmento” thank you for your collaboration, and welcome you into their city!
55 comments so far
Good idea how to present Postrcossing in public! I surely can send one extra card for such an interesting project.
Excellent idea to bring up the cultural event at the world stage thru our PostCrossing....
K Sridhar, Mangalore, India...
I've sent my card. Such an interesting project - I'm excited to get my email when it's finished. :)
Great idea! I have sent my postcard. I hope a picture of the hart-shaped logo will be published on the postcrossing blog too, when it is finished. Good Luck!
count me in
Kitimat has a large Portuguese community. I will certainly mail a card to be part of the fun project.
Being Portuguese, I also want to be part of this project. I congratulate the School Martins Sarmento in the person of all their students and teachers, for the excellent idea to join the Postcrossing, also a Portuguese idea!
Sendo português, eu também quero fazer parte deste projecto. Dou os parabéns à Escola Secundária Martins Sarmento, na pessoa de todos os seus alunos e professores, pela excelente ideia de se associar ao PostCrossing, que também é uma ideia portuguesa!
Cláudio and I, members of the Postcrossing Club in Escola Secundária de Cantanhede, are very interested in this project and we are going to participate.
Great idea!
I'm in!
you know I'm in!
me too!
A marvellous idea, I'm certainly in it. Welcome to Postcrossing to all the students and teachers at Martins Sarmento School.
great idea, send my card today.
Great idea, they definitely get a card from me.
I wrote my card!
I am in. :)
Gday I will be sending you a postcard in tomorrow's mail and am more than happy to share the Land Down Under with the teachers and students too! :)
Mine will be posted in a few minutes too a great idea!
Sent!
I think it's a great idea, I'm in! Just my suggestion would be that some postcards from Guimarães would be sent not only to the first 20 postcards received but also selected randomly from those received later. This way people from far away countries would also have a chance :)
amazing idea! I will sign my card immediately I come home this evening.
My card is on the way. Great project!!!
I'll participate aswell! Great initiative!
Great idea. I love to be part of that and will send a postcard right away.
great idea :-) I'm part of it as well :-)
An excellent idea! I will get a postcard in the mail today!
Will be sending mine to be a part of it!
Sydney Australia
oh what a very good idea i`ll send one to you to support
i like this action :-)
Wilma
The Netherlands
just sent mine!!
I hope I am not late!!! Great idea!
I'm in, card is on the way!
I'm in! Sent my postcard from Kingston, New York, USA today! :)
já escrevi o meu! =)
[sorry, my portuguese is just quicker] i said, "already wrote mine"!
I am sending one from Australia
I WILL SEND ONE POSTCARD TOO
It's on the way. ;-)
It will be interesting to look at the result)
Postcard is on its way :)
lovely way to provoke people on postcard! mine is written and will be sent shortly!
Great project! My card's on the way! :)
Another good idea to promote Postcrossing. :)
And anyone who can visit Guimarães, it's worth it, it's small but really cute and it has a lot of postcards for sale. :D
I am sending..
I'm happy to send a postcard!
I will definitely send a postcard to help the project :)
É uma excelente ideia, bem original!
(it's a great idea, so original!)
I was student in that School! That a great surprise! I will send mine of course!
yay! sending my card... :)
This is a great idea & I am participating! I sent a postcard to them today! :)
Greetings from Vilnius - capital city of Lithuania and European Capital of Culture 2009.
My card is on the way to Portugal.
I'm in too
Eu já o enviei!
Quelle super bonne idée.Suis moi meme portugaise et je trouve cette idée simplement géniale.je participe avec plaisir.
Hi from Moscow! My card is "running" to Portugal.
Love the idea! A card is coming your way!
I support this wonderful idea with all my heart! Russia is also a part of it. Loking forward to the result)))
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