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by Francesco Murialdo
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Savona officially adopted the city flag on may 6, 1994 when
some changes in the town Statute came into force (30 days after
they appeared on the Official Bulletin of Regione Liguria, april
6, 1994).
Art. 4 of the Statute read: "The flag (named
"vessillo") of the Commune of Savona consists of a
cloth with three horizontal stripes of equal size, in colours
red, white and red"
Francesco Murialdo
by Roberto Breschi from CISV
Nevertheless a few actual flags show the city coat
of arms in the middle of the white stripe; namely on
town-hall when the town council is in session and in front of the
war memorial . Width to lenght ratio is 2:3 (like Italian flag).
However these flags (both with and without the coat of arms) were
already widely in use in the century from middle 1800s' to middle
1900s'.
Francesco Murialdo
by Francesco Murialdo
In the second half of 20th century a vertical striped flag came up by the side of the horizontal