Tuscany Region (Italy)

Regione Toscana

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

• Description of the Flag
• Flag until 1995
• The Gonfalone
• Coat of Arms

• Chianti Flag

See:

• Clickable Map of Toscany, Umbria and Marche
• Provinces and Municipalities of Tuscany Region - Index
• Tuscany - Historical Flags
• Tuscany - Political Flags

See also:

• Italy
• Italy - History of the Flag
• Florence - Historical Flags
• Elba Island
• Italian Regions and Provinces

Description of the Flag

The gonfalon was adopted on the 20th May 1975 and readopted with the coat of arms on the 3rd February 1995. The coat of arms is a sannitic shield, gules a Pegasus argent. The gonfalon is white with two narrow vertical red stripes, and the Pegasus in the middle. The words Regione Toscana appear under in silver.The Pegasus was the symbol of the Toscan National Liberation Committee during the Second World War.
Pascal Vagnat, 22 September 1998

The white on red stripes are possibly derived from the red-white-red triband (the Austrian colours) adopted by Tuscany in the latter half of the 18th Century and dropped in 1848.
Christopher Southworth