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Ragusa Province (Sicily, Italy)

Provincia di Ragusa

Last modified: 2004-12-29 by dov gutterman
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by Roberto Breschi from CISV



See also:

Municipalities:

  • Acate
  • Chiaramonte Gulfi
  • Comiso
  • Giarratana
  • Ispica
  • Modica
  • Monterosso Almo
  • Pozzallo
  • Ragusa
  • Santa Croce Camerina
  • Scicli
  • Vittoria

The Flag

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