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Italy - Ladins

by António Martins, 30 April 1999

by Ivan Sache

Ladins in Italy
Vertical Flag

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Ladins in Italy

An important flag used in Alto-Adige is the flag of ladin people: horizontal blue-white-green. Sometimes it can be seen with local civic arms on it.
Mario Fabretto, 20 September 1996

Giuseppe Bottasini described the a flag from <www.provincia.bz.it> as "Ladins in South Tyrol, Italy" 2:3 (Vertical 3: lightblue, white, lightgreen). Interesting pattern, no? The austrian tyrolians fly a horizontal tricolor, while the italian tyrolians fly a vertical one .I wander about the different blue shades, though.
António Martins, 30 April 1999

"Patrje Ladine (Ladins) - North Italy." - Horizontal blue-white-green.
AFAIK There are ca. 30,000 ladin speakers in Italian Su''dtirol and a
few of them in some valleys of Rhetian Alps (Switzerland). Flag similar to Aran (Spain).This flag is listed under number 46 at the chart "Flags of Aspirant Peoples" [eba94].
Ivan Sache

I found a picture of the Ladin flag flying at the La Usc Di Ladins site which is an online Ladin language journal .The flag can be found at <www.lauscdiladins.com>.
Marko Puljic, 11 December 1999

About the Ladin flag they told me the following meaning of the colours: The flag symbolizes the landscape: blue for the sky, white for the mountains and green for the meadows.
Karl Palfrader, 11 August 2001

According to <www.vejin.com>, the flag was created in 1920 during a meeting of Ladins. The text also confirms what has already been stated regarding the meaning of the colors of the Ladin flag: blue for the sky, white for the mountains and green for the meadows.
Marko Puljic, 28 August 2002

by Marco Lambruschi, 25 January 2004

According to Gilberto Oneto article published on "ETHNICA popoli e culture" November 1993, the Ladine flag is rapresented with the Grigioni Goat in the white stripe.
Marco Lambruschi, 25 January 2004

Grigioni is of course also known as Grischun (Rumantsch), Graubunden (German) or Grisons (French). The goat is more precisely an ibex, whose meaning is explained on Graubünden / Grischun canton (Switzerland).
It is stated that, although most Ladins live in Italy, a few of them