Vatican City flag

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Vatican City flag
Flag of the Vatican City.svg
Vexillological symbol : National flag on landNormal or de jure version of a flag?
Aspect ratio: 1: 1
Officially accepted: June 8, 1929

The flag of the Vatican City ( Italian Bandiera della Città del Vaticano ) consists of two parallel vertical stripes: on the left a yellow, on the right a white. The flag of the Holy See today is identical to that of the Vatican City.

description

Article 20 (1) of the Basic Law of the Vatican City State of February 22, 2001 states:

“La bandiera dello Stato della Città del Vaticano è costituita da due campi divisi verticalmente, uno giallo aderente all'asta e l'altro bianco, e porta in quest'ultimo la tiara con le chiavi, il tutto secondo il modello, che forma l 'allegato A della presente Legge. "

"The flag of the Vatican State consists of two vertically divided fields, a yellow field hanging on the flagpole and a white field depicting the tiara with the keys, all based on the model that forms Appendix A of this law."

The "tiara with the keys" does not correspond - as would be expected - to the coat of arms of the Vatican City , but to the coat of arms of the Holy See . The difference is that here the tasseled ends of the red cord are first passed through the key chains and then looped around the intersection of the keys, from where they hang loosely vertically downwards.

The colors of the flag (yellow and white) are probably related to the Petri keys , which are traditionally represented as gold and silver keys. In heraldry , yellow is equated with gold and white with silver.

Aspect ratio

Variant of the flag of the Vatican City in an aspect ratio of 2: 3

In the vexillological literature, the flag of the Vatican is given as the only national flag next to the Swiss flag , which is square. The Basic Law of the Vatican State shows a square flag in the appendix, as does the official website of the Vatican State. However, depending on the country, many flags with an aspect ratio of 1: 2, 2: 3 or 3: 5 are in use. An adjustment to the local standard can be assumed here. The Nunciature in Berlin is also assuming a non-square flag.

The square flag is de jure the official flag, while de facto other versions are also used and must therefore at least be viewed as recognized variants.

history

Previous flags

The development of the flag of the Vatican City is related to the eventful history of the Papal States . Its flag was originally red and yellow. Today's colors yellow and white go back to a decision made by Pope Pius VII in 1808. In the course of the dispute between Napoleon Bonaparte and the Papal States , the French General Miollis occupied Rome in February 1808. The papal soldiers were partially integrated into the French armed forces and were allowed to continue to wear their red and yellow cockades there . The Pope then decided that his Nobel Guard and other armed men who had remained loyal to him needed new colors. He chose yellow and white. These colors were only used later on flags - for the first time in 1824 on the flag of a merchant ship, at that time still with diagonal division of the flag.


  • Papal State Flag, 754–1803

  • Flag of the
    Papal States , 1803-1825

  • Flag of the
    Papal States, 1825–1849, 1849–1870

  • Papal Infantry Flag,
    1862–1870

The flag that brought Apollo 11 to the moon on display in the Vatican Museums

The flag of the Vatican City on the moon

During the first manned flight to the moon in July 1969, the crew of Apollo 11 took a flag of Vatican City to the moon and brought it back to earth. US President Richard Nixon gave this copy to the population of Vatican City. It is now in the Vatican Museums and on display there, along with some small rock samples from the surface of the moon.

Characters

In the Unicode standard, the flag can be represented as a combination of the regional indicators ? ( code point U + 1F1FB in the Unicode block Additional enclosed alphanumeric characters ) and ? (U + 1F1E6): ??.

See also

Web links

Commons : Flags of the Vatican  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Legge fondamentale dello Stato della Città del Vaticano . In: AAS . tape 92 , November 26, 2000, pp. 1060 (Italian, vatican.va [PDF; 4.9 MB ; accessed on February 14, 2015]).
  2. ^ A b Claudio Ceresa: Il giallo e il bianco da due secoli colori pontifici , in: Osservatore Romano, July 8, 2008, quoted in: Papa Ratzinger blog (Italian). Summary: The story behind the white and yellow colors of the Vatican flag catholicnewsagency.com, July 14, 2008 (English).
  3. ↑ Smith, Neubecker: Coats of arms and flags of all nations . Munich 1981, ISBN 3-87045-183-1
  4. ↑ Model of the flag in Appendix A to the Basic Law of the State of Vatican City, in: Acta Apostolicae Sedis , Volume 92 (PDF) November 26, 2000, p. 1062.
  5. ↑ Vatican website: flag
  6. ↑ Letter from the Apostolic Nunciature in Germany to the Federal Ministry of the Interior of the Federal Republic of Germany dated May 27, 2010 (PDF), see in particular the model on the last page that is referred to in the cover letter.
  7. ↑ Cf. 2: 3 Variant in Flags of the World, Vatican City (Holy See). Here the 2: 3 version is classified as an "unofficial variant".
  8. ↑ Bandiera vaticanstate.va (Italian)
  9. ↑ ?? Flag for Vatican City Emoji. In: Emojipedia . Retrieved February 18, 2018 .