Aosta Valley Region (Italy)

Regione Autonome Valle d'Aosta, Vallée d'Aoste, Région Autonome Vallée d'Aoste

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by Jaume Olle', 18 July 1996

• Description of the Flag
• Flag with Coat of Arms
• Variant (?)
• The Gonfalone
• Coat of Arms

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• Italy
• Clickable Map of Italy
• Italy - Historical Flags - Index
• Italy - Regions and Provinces
• Harpitanya Movement

Provinces:

• Aosta Valley

For municipalities, see Aosta Valley Province

Description of the Flag

The traditional flag is red and black.
Alessio Bragadini, 25 November 1995

Black and red flag that was undulating in various places. Hoisted 1947. Ratio 2.3.
Jaume Olle', 18 July 1996

The Gonfalone and the Coat of Arms were adopted on the 13th July 1987. The coat of arms was however already used by the Province of Aosta and the region since it was created after the Second World War. The Coat of Arms is sable a lion argent tongued and armed gules, the shield being surmounted by an antic crown or. The gonfalone is vertically divided red and black with the coat of arms in the middle and the words Région autonome Vallée d'Aoste above and Regione autonoma Valle d’Aostain gold under.
There is a flag, not officially adopted, black-red for the region since the years 1940s. In March 1947, the Council of the Valley wrote a statute of autonomy for the region. In this statute, the article 3 said that the flag of the region was black and red. This project of statute was transmitted in May 1947 to the state authorities, but since this appeared as granting too much autonomy for the region, this statute was rejected. The discussions about the statute brought many reactions in the national assembly and a proposal of inserting an alinea in the article 3 of the statute, recognizing the black-red flag as the official flag of the Valley was rejected by the majority of the commissioners, the flag being considered by Rome as a separatist flag.
Pascal Vagnat, 22 September 1998

This flag is listed under number 51 at the chart "Flags of Aspirant Peoples" [eba94] as: "Val d'Aosta (Valdôtain francophones) - North-West Italy." IMHO, not all Valdotains are francophones. I imagine their number is decreasing. Official name of the region is "Valle d'Aosta".
Ivan Sache, 22 September 1999

There's no CoA in the Valle d'Aosta flag. The CoAs of the city of Aosta and the region of Valle d'Aosta are different.