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Venice (Veneto, Italy)

Cittá di Venezia

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by Marcus Schmöger, 14 August 2002



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Description of the Flag

The flag of Venice (capital of Veneto) is red with yellow ornament, and near the hoist a red field with the lion in red and the same book open.
Pascal Vagnat, 22 September 1998

The Italian city of Venezia adopted a new flag, a new gonfalon a new coat of arms and a new seal in 1996 and 1997. The new coat of arms and the new gonfalon were adopted with a presidential decret on the 6th November 1996. The new flag and the new seal were adopted with a presidential decret on the 8th January 1997. All the emblems were presented on a ceremony on Friday 22nd May 1998 at 11.am in the Ducal palace in Venezia with people in middle-ages costumes.
One can see all these emblems at <www.clodianet.it>.
Follow the link "Il nuovo stemma della Città di Venezia" (The new coat of arms of the city of venezia) or <www.clodianet.it/araldica> (follow then gonfalone (bottom) and bandiera (bottom) to see their pictures). On these beautiful and interesting (even for non Italian speaking people) pages are to be seen the big images of the coat of arms (stemma), the seal (sigillo), the flag (bandiera), the gonfalon (gonfalone). Follow each times the link. There is a very detailed and legal information concerning the emblems of Venezia through the history.
Other pages shows the coat of arms, the seal, the flag and the gonfalon of the province of Venezia; the image of the different civic crown in use in Italian heraldry (region, province, city, commune, etc...) as well as example of use of these crowns. These pages are really impressive with the information given and the high quality of t