Azores Typical Windmills 2007 - PT

In 2007 Portuguese post office made another great issue of typical windmills.
Depicting the windmills on the beautiful Islands of Azores archipelago, Portugal.
This issue consisted of 6 different windmills and stamps: 4 isolated stamps, and one philatelic sheet with 2 stamps.
Windmills are so typical in Azores that they're often used as symbols when representing the islands.

Issued in 2007 - Portugal

0,30 - A stone structured windmill of 'fixed' type (the pads point only in the one direction towards they were built).
This windmill was used in the islands of Graciosa, Terceira, Faial and S. Miguel. One of the most seen in representations of the islands.




0,61 - Stone structure, fixed windmill. Only used in the Corvo Island.

0,45 - This one has the main structure in wood, but the foundations were built in stone. This was a way to allow the windmill to be of a 'Rotative type. The wood structure would rotate as needed to catch the winds from different directions. Used in S. Jorge, Terceira and Faial islands. This is another one you often see as a symbol of Azores.






0,75 - Another rotative windmill. Again main structure is wooden, built over a stone foundation, which you can't see in the picture but it's shown in the diagram.
Typical windmill of S. Jorge, Terceira and Pico.

This is the mini/souvenir sheet (whatever you may call it):

0,45 - Again a fixed stone windmill, from S. Miguel and Santa Maria islands.
2,00 - As usual, the issue needed to have the bloodsucking 2 euro stamp (thumbs down to Portuguese PO for this policy). Rotative wooden windmill of the S. Jorge island.

To be noticed again in the sheet photo the same type of windmill of the 0,30 stamp.