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by Zeljko Heimer, 26 Febuary 2004
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Rovinj (Rovigno) uses white Coat of Arms with an unusual cross
with the vertical bar being slanted (so I guess better blazoning
would be Argent a bar and a bend sinistre Gules). I believe that
this is historically result of putting the normal cross on the
oval 3D shield, i.e. picturing such 3D shape in 2D surface -
"misinterpretation" (possibly intended to create
differentiation from many such Coat of Arms ) of that produced a
bend (sometimes obviously curved) instead of the vertical bar. Be
it as it like, the modern Coat of Arms of Rovinj is adopted as
such, with mural crown above. The flag (which I found on official
homepages, and I believe that it is ceremonial version rather
then "normal") is vertical blue with Coat of Arms
flanked with golden ornaments of oak and laurel leaves.
Zeljko Heimer, 1 March 1999
I located a photo of the flag of
Rovinj at <www.rovinj.hr/gr_2.htm>
. Coat of Arms at <www.rovinj.hr>
Dov Gutterman , 11 April 1999
I believe that this flag is the ceremonial flag of the city
and that the "normal" one is without the ornament of
golden leaves. However, recently when I was in Rovinj, I could
not confirm it (i.e I have seen no flag). The coat of arms is
rather new (say around 1996, the flag is of the same date, I
guess) redention of the ancient coat of arms of the city.
Zeljko Heimer, 11 April 1999
The horizontal flag, that is hoisted on the city assembly and
few other sites in the city, as I have seen it and photographed
in 2001, and the same was confirmed by Tomislav Šipek in
2003, is blue with the coat of arms in the middle, but untipicaly
this is bordered with two columns of golden ornaments, oak leaves
and acorns on the hoist and laurel in the fly.
The actual ornaments may be a bit more elaborate then in my
drawing, but I never got the close enough image for that to copy
from.
Zeljko Heimer, 26 Febuary 2004
by Zeljko Heimer, 5 Febuary 2001
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by Zeljko Heimer
The coat of arms of Rovinj is white with red cross, as it is
case of a number of Istrian cities. The characteristic of the
cross of Rovinj is it arched form, probably dervied from the
representations of the oval concave shield typical for Italian
heraldic influence. The modern reporesentation of the coat of
arms choose an other shield shape, and it have a civic (mural)
crown above it.
Zeljko Heimer
Flag
by Zeljko Heimer, 26 Febuary 2004
Coat of Arms
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by Zeljko Heimer, 26 Febuary 2004
I located a site in Italian (warning: very "heavy"
page) at <digilander.libero.it>,
which is dedicated to the histoey of the Coat of Arms of Rovingo
(today Rovinj (Istria County, Croatia))
3 flags are there:
- Postcard with the old
flag of the city with the subtitle in Italian:
"Questa bella cartolina di fine ottocento-inizi novecento,
oltre al solito panorama di Rovigno, fornisce una
esemplificazione della bandiera della cittā con stemma ".
- Gonfalone with the
subtitle in Italian : "Il terzo č il Labaro della Cittā di
Rovigno d'Istria in esilio, qui ripreso durante uno degli ultimi
raduni degli esuli rovignesi tenutosi nella cittā
d'origine"
- The flag on top (with no credit) with the subtitle: "Si
veda anche il Labaro dell'attuale cittā di Rovigno"
Dov Gutterman, 25 July 2002
I suppose that the site is maintained by the organization of
the Italians that left Rovinj after the WWII and now live in
Italy. These (and other Italians that left Croatian coast then)
are known as Esuli (guess stems from Itailan word for 'exile').
Such organizations are mainly focused in preserving the cultural
heritage, but sometimes iridentistic and fascist ideologies
surface.
Zeljko Heimer, 26 July 2002
The coat of arms of Rovinj used before the World War II,
during the Italian rule was basically the same as the modern one,
differing in the artistical redention. The blue flag with the
shield of the arms is recorded also in 1890's (and probably used
before too).
Zeljko Heimer, 26 Febuary 2004
