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The gonfalon, the coat of arms and the flag were adopted on
the 20th May 1975. The coat of arms is a landscape with the sky
in blue with the words Regione del Veneto, the sea in
blue, the mountains in brown and a plain in green on which stands
the lion of Saint Mark having its right paw on an open book on
which is written Pax tibi Marce evangelista meus. The
gonfalon is red with ornaments in yellow , the coat of arms in a
squarish form and the seven coats of arms of the capital cities
of the regional provinces on the seven cut tongues at the bottom.
The flag is exactly the same, there is only a rotation of 90
degrees for the coat of arms. The regulations for the use of the
flag were issued on the 10th April 1998.
Pascal Vagnat, 22 September 1998
From <www.ac-grenoble.fr>:
"The flag of Veneto, is the one of the old Republic of
Venice, fallen in 1797 with Napoleon's conquest. It represents a
winged lion which puts its paw on a book with a latin
inscription. The lion is the symbol of the Evangelist Mark, who
is said to have stopped, on a Venetian island, during one of his
joumeys. There an angel ( who is symbolized by the lion's wings )
appeared to him and greeted him saying : "Peace be with you,
Mark, my Evangelist ". He also told him he would rest there
after his death. Mark was buried in Alexandria in Egypt,
controlled by the Muslim. His remains were stolen by the
Venetians, who hid them under a load of pork meat, and then they
arrived in Venice in 828. There it was built the wonderful St
Mark basilica in order to keep St Mark's remains . Since then the
winged lion was the symbol of the free Republic of Venice . In
times of peace it was represented with its paw on the book, in
times of war with the unsheathed sword . Since 1866 when Veneto
was annexed to Italy, the winged lion , with its paw on the book
has been the symbol of our region."
Located by Dov Gutterman, 28 August 1999
While visiting cities and town in Veneto (Venice, Verona
etc...), I noticed that the flas in use have all blue background
and no inscription. Here is photo
from Verona. Photo taken by Eli Gutterman.
Dov Gutterman, 15 October 2004
Veneto flag was changed some years ago and the official Veneto
flag now don't have the inscription
"Regione del Veneto" any more.
Informazioni
Sitoveneto, 2 November 2004
image by Mario Fabretto, 10 December 1996
For a bigger image (110 Kb's) by Mello luchtenberg, click here
image by Mello Luchtenberg, 14 September 2001
Two versions of vertical flags were seen at Cortina d'Ampezzo and Borca di Cadore.
Dov Gutterman, 24 October 2004
image by Jaume Ollé, Mello Luchtenberg & Tomislav Todorovic
25 June 2019
"War Flag"
image by Jaume Ollé, Mello Luchtenberg & Tomislav Todorovic
25 June 2019
"Civil Flag"
The dark red and gold flag of the "Serenissima"
Republic of Venice (from early days until May 1797) is sparkling
a harsh debate in Italy, because of the group of Venetian
independentist who occupied (using a home-made tank) the Bell
Tower of St. Mark Square ten days ago and raised the flag.
Today the trial began in Venice and the online Italian newspaper
"la Repubblica" shows a nice picture of the flag
hanging from a balcony in town from which you can see the
peculiar "tails" of the flag. The main pattern on the
flag is, of course, the winged lion of St. Mark.
Alessio Bragadini, 21 May 1997
In the time of the Serenisime republic the territory under its
control was important and some banners are in use in several
regions. I don't have sure data about all the sides and designs.
The banners (Gonfalon?) are frequently of armorial type. Please
take this information with caution because the source are portolanos or
written descriptions.
Bergamo: red-yellow vertical
Brescia: white with blue lion (tongued and armed red?)
Crema: red over white
Verona: yellow cross on blue background
Vicenza: white cross on red background
Padova: red cross on white background
Feltre: red flag with white castle (castle design unknown for me)
Belluno: yellow cross on blue background (two ?griffin? in the
upper quarters?)
Treviso: red cross on white background. Two eight-pointed stars in
the upper quarters.
Ceneda: unknown
Aquileya: Blue flag with golden crowned eagle
Trieste: unknown
Istria: blue with golden kid
Croatia: red-white checked
Dalmatia: blue with three lion heads (2-1)
Cherso: green with rampant white horse
Rascia: yellow with a black horseshoe
Albania: red lion on yellow backgorund. The lion tongued and
armed blue
Adria: blue with green circle, and within a white castle
(doubteful)
Polesina: green flag with golden castle and below the golden
venetian lion
I believe that more banners are used in Creta, Cyprus, Aegean,
Euboea and Greece but details are no available.
Jaume Ollé , 9 November 1998
Flag of the Liga Veneta and Serenissima reppublica di Venecia.
I saw a foto of it but I doubt that it was the true flag of the
Republic. The attached is one of the dozens of
political-regional flags in use currently in Italia.
Jaume Ollé, 17 December 2000
In the first page of the 10th of May edition of the PUBLICO
newspaper there was a photo of Umberto Bossi with flags. In it
you can see a very large "Serenissima" flag (a venetian
flag in only gold and red) and behind it a smaller white flag,
partially visible. This Serenissima flag has been, apparently,
"adopted" by venetian independentists, although it is,
also, a "yacht ensign" of
Venice. A weird situation, to say the least.
Jorge Candeias, 13 may 2001
This flag is neither the actual flag of "Liga
Veneta" (= Northern League Venetian section), nor the flag
of the "Serenissimi" ("Serenisimi" in
Venetian language), indipendentist movement from Veneto, who
became famous in 1997 for having "conquered" for some
hours the famous Bell-Tower of St. Mark in Venice.
The "Serenissima" (or "Serenisima" in
Venetian) was the flag of the Repubblica di Venezia
("Repiovega de Venesia" in Venetian: the Venetian
language, often but wrongly considered an "Italian
dialect" was the official language of that State) and always
showed a lion holding a book with the Latin words "PAX TIBI
MARCE EVANGELISTA MEVS" (Peace upon You, o Mark!, My
Evangelist!) and not a sword. I'm quite sure the variant with the
sword was the war flag of the "Serenisima Repiovega de
Venesia". I think the error was due to the fact that the
"Serenisimi" (maybe) waved a "war flag" over
the Bell-Tower of St. Mark, because in their intention it was a
"war act" to release Venice from "Italian
domination".
Paolo Montanelli, 20 March 2003
I've seen recently the new secretary Matteo Salvini on TV with a "civil
version" of the Serenissima looking slightly different (http://www.ilsussidiario.net/News/Politica/2013/3/26/RISOLUZIONE-44-Dal-Veneto-un-referendum-che-puo-cambiare-Italia-ed-Europa-/374608/).
Paolo Montanelli, 23 January 2014
See also: Lega Nord Veneto - Liga Veneta
image by Jaume Ollé, Mello Luchtenberg & Tomislav Todorovic
25 June 2019
image by Jaume Ollé, Mello Luchtenberg & Tomislav Todorovic
25 June 2019
While the general design of these flags remains the same, there are many
details which may vary, sometimes almost to the extent of resulting in virtually
different flags:
The lion usually has the aureole, either "solid" [1, 2]
or voided [3], but may also lack it [4], which is frequently the case with the
"war flag" [5, 6]. The compartment is another detail which may sometimes be
omitted [4, 7, 8]. When the book is open, the pages are usually gold, but may be
white sometimes [9, 10, 11, 12]. The field, upon which the lion is placed, is
usually plain, but may sometimes be diapered [9, 10]. In most of cases, only one
lion's wing is visible [1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 8, 9, 11], although the other one may be
partly shown as well [4, 7, 10].
While the flags may have just the gold
fimbriation along the edges [3, 13], there is almost always a red border around
the whole pattern [11, 12]. In most of cases, the ornaments on the tongues
additionally have their own separate golden frame [1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 14].
Width of red border may vary along different edges of the same flag.
The
flags without the red outermost border are presented at it-ven.html#ser
Although the flags are meant to be gonfannons, the tongues are
frequently not separated. That is usually case with the flags without the
outermost red border [3, 15], the gold fimbriation often being turned into a
very wide border [16, 17, 18], as also shown here.
Flags with the outermost red border may also be shaped like this, usually with a
gold [19] or white stripe [4] between the tongues' patterns. While this may look
like unfinished product, with printed guidelines for cutting between the
tongues, there are photos [4] which reveal stitches along the fly edge, so those
flags are clearly complete as such.
Sources:
[1] Flickr - Flag of
Venice, photographed on 2010-07-07:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/reidlromeo/4770899082/in/set-72157624311394906/
[2] Flickr - Flag of Venice, photographed on 2008-06-10:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/vt_professor/2584281741/
[3] Facebook -
Ilaria Brunelli's photo gallery, photo added on 2015-04-24:
https://www.facebook.com/ilariabrunellibdg/
[4] Vendita Bandiere website:
https://www.vendita-bandiere.it/bandiera-per-auto-italia-repubblica-di-venezia-697-1797-30-x-40-cm.html
[5] Il Gazzettino website:
https://sport.ilgazzettino.it/
[6] 123rf.com photo archive:
https://www.123rf.com/photo_67727605_flag-of-venice-main-symbol-of-venice-the-golden-winged-lion-of-evangelist-mark.html
[7] Bandiere Venete website:
http://www.bandierevenete.it/catalogo_prodotti/bandiera_repubblica_veneta_dim_150x80_cm_-_leone_del__700.html
[8] Bandiere Venete website:
http://www.bandierevenete.it/catalogo_prodotti/bandiera_repubblica_veneta_dim_150x80_cm_-_leone_con_spada_del__700.html
[9] Alamy photo archive:
https://www.alamy.it/vittorio-veneto-italia-23-settembre-2018-rievocazione-storica-con-persone-vestite-come-ottocento-militari-della-repubblica-di-venezia-image222565277.html
[10] Facebook - Antonio Guadagnini's photo gallery, photo added on
2015-10-06:
https://www.facebook.com/721483264601661/
[11] Flag of Venice at eBay:
https://www.ebay.it/itm/123759110960
[12] Flag of Venice at eBay:
https://www.ebay.it/itm/123759110960
[13] Treviso Today website:
http://www.trevisotoday.it/politica/laura-puppato-bandiera-veneta-treviso-29-agosto-2017.html
[14] Depositphotos photo archive:
https://it.depositphotos.com/11110926/stock-photo-venice-flag.html
[15]
Venice-tourism.com website:
http://www.venice-tourism.com/en/events/svolo-del-leon-fly-lion
[16]
Corriere del Veneto website:
https://corrieredelveneto.corriere.it/treviso/foto_del_giorno/2012/14-giugno-2012/furia-bandiere-201607956726.shtml
[17] La Voce di Venezia website:
https://www.lavocedivenezia.it/25-aprile-in-piazza-san-marco-albert-gardin-denunciato/
[18] Deskgram.net website:
https://deskgram.net/p/1802337754917264949_5351677271
[19] Notizie+
website:
https://notizieplus.it/dolomiti-montagne-venezia-turismo-vince/
Tomislav Todorovic, 27 June 2019
image from Liga
Veneta Repubblica site
I located this political group site in which I found this
image of flag. I don't know if such a flag is in use. However, it
this site there is a photo of some people holding another flag in some kind of
demonstration. This flag looks like the one of the "Serenissima"
Republic of Venice.
Dov Gutterman , 15 October 1999
