Flags and coats of arms of the Italian regions
This list shows the flags and coats of arms of the 20 Italian Italian regions .
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location | flag | SV | coat of arms | region | Remarks |
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Abruzzo Abruzzo |
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Aosta Valley Valle d'Aosta |
In the coat of arms the silver lion. A gold crown rests on the shield. | |||
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Apulia Puglia |
The emblem shows a silver octagon with an olive tree in natural colors, which is placed on a red octagon. There is a golden crown above it. The flag itself is framed by a blue and a white border. | |||
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Basilicata Basilicata |
The four wavy lines represent the four major rivers in the region: Basenot, Agri , Bradano and Sinni. | |||
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Emilia-Romagna Emilia-Romagna |
The flag and coat of arms show a stylized outline map of the region. | |||
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Friuli-Venezia Giulia Friuli-Venezia Giulia |
The golden eagle comes from the historical patriarchate of Aquileia (1000 to 1420). | |||
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Calabria Calabria |
The region's emblem is a sloping crossing with a pine tree , two crosses and a trimmed Doric column as a reference to the ancient settlement area of the Greeks in Magna Graecia . | |||
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Campania Campania |
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Lazio Lazio |
The octagonal emblem is divided into nine fields. Four of them show the Italian national colors . The other five fields show the coats of arms of the five provinces in the region. On the flag, this emblem is surrounded by laurel and olive branches, topped with a golden crown. Underneath are the words Regione Lazio in gold. | |||
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Liguria Liguria |
The emblem of this region is a stylized silver caravel with white sails on which four silver stars are placed. | |||
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Lombardy Lombardia |
The so-called Rosa camuna is supposed to remind of the prehistoric drawings in Camuni. | |||
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Brands Marche |
The emblem consists of a white, green-rimmed shield with a black M for the region's first letter, the left half of which is a stylized woodpecker . | |||
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Molise Molise |
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Piedmont Piedmont |
The colors go back to the coat of arms of the Prince of Piedmont, the eldest son of the King of Sardinia and show a color reversal of the Sardinian coat of arms. | |||
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Sardinia Sardegna |
The symbol of the island are the four moors , one of which can be found in a similar form in the flag of the neighboring island of Corsica . | |||
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Sicily Sicilia |
The flag of Sicily shows a triskele on a yellow-red background. It has existed since the Sicilian Vespers in 1282, when Sicily rebelled against the rule of Charles I of Anjou . The color red symbolizes the city of Palermo , the color yellow stands for the city of Corleone , which was the agricultural center of Sicily. These two cities worked for the independence of Sicily. | |||
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Tuscany Toscana |
The silver Pegasus was the symbol of the Tuscan National Liberation Committees during World War II and was adopted from a 1537 coin design by the Renaissance artist Benvenuto Cellini in honor of Cardinal Pietro Bembo . The red-white-red flag is similar to the Austrian colors, under whose rule the region was in the 18th century. Red and white are also traditional colors in many Tuscan cities. | |||
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Trentino-South Tyrol Trentino-Alto Adige |
The flag and coat of arms bear the black eagle of Trient and the red eagle of South Tyrol twice on silver . | |||
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Umbria Umbria |
The region's emblem is a stylized representation of the three candles that are used in the wax candle run in honor of St. Ubald of Gubbio . | |||
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Veneto Veneto |
The lion of Mark is the symbol for the evangelist Mark , whose relics have been resting in Venice since 828. |
See also
Web links
Commons : Flags of regions of Italy - Collection of images, videos and audio files
Commons : Coats of arms of regions of Italy - Collection of images, videos and audio files
- Flags of the World (English)
- Flag Lexicon