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by Roberto Breschi from CISV
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Ragusa (Sicily) - blue with great yellow circle and whitin the
arms. Arms adopted 6-12-1926
Jaume Olle', 1 August 1999
I have to point out that the town of Ragusa ("Cittą di
Ragusa") in Italy has no flag of its own. It is the Province
of Ragusa that displays a blue flag with a yellow circle within
the arms in the center. For further details here is an article:
The Province of Ragusa is the smallest of the nine provinces of
Sicily, covering the southeastern part of this island and looking
onto the Malta channel.
The provincial flag was adopted on the seventieth anniversary of
the birth (1997).
As it is a wide practise in Italy the substancial portion of the
flag derives from the device of the gonfalon -the background is
blue with the provincial coat of arms in the center. It is now
placed within a gold ring; below the script "Provincia
Regionale di Ragusa" (Regional Province of Ragusa) in
capital letters of gold in form of arc. The province was created
on 16 January 1927 by the Fascist regime and the coats of arm
dates from that era. It consisted of a white (argent) and red
(gules) checkered