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Liguria regional flag is a vertical tricolor green-red-bluewith the arms (a vessel) in the center. Sometimes the arms stayon the red stripe only and below them appear the wordsRegioneLiguria. Lega Nord propose the flag for Liguria to be white,with the red cross (the old Genova flag), with St. George killingthe dragon in the canton.
Mario Fabretto, 20 September 1996
The gonfalon and the emblem were adopted on the 15th January1985. The emblem depicts a silver vessel with a white chargedwith a red cross and four mullets silver in each canton. Thegonfalon is vertically green-red-blue with the emblem in themiddle. The flag adopted on the 27th June 1997 is verticallygreen-red-blue with the emblem in the middle of the red stripe.
Pascal Vagnat, 22 September 1998
About Liguria, it was reported that the blue was changed towhite. Any confirmation?
Jaume Olle 25 September 1998
No. The law concerning the flag say that the flag isgreen-red-blue. Nothing other was issued. You can look in theofficial website of Liguria which has a database of its laws at<www.regione.liguria.it>.
Pascal Vagnat, 26 September 1998
According to <www.regione.liguria.it>,the region may adopt a new flag, red cross on white, in thefuture.
Pascal Vagnat, 2 May 2003
The flag of the Regione Liguria can be seen onItalianWikipedia.It is slightly different from the above; the arms fit exactlyinto the middle stripe.
Ron Lahav andEugene Ipavec, 1 February 2008
From <opac.regione.liguria.it>:
Art.2
The crest of the Region [...] features a silver coloured stylisedcaravel with black borders and with a white sail quartered by ared cross and silver stars in the quarters.
Art. 3
The gonfalon of the Region [...] is made by a cloth with verticalequal sized bends whose colours from left to right is green, red,and sea blue. The gonfalon features in its centre the crest ofthe region that is three fifth of the total width of the cloth.Where the ferrule staff is inserted a stripe with the colour ofthe national flag is knotted. The gonfalon of the Region is shownand used during the public ceremonies according the regulationsof the law of the Republic.
(Regional law No. 3 of 15 January 1985)
For Italian version: <opac.regione.liguria.it>.
Dov Gutterman andLuismi Arias, 7 August 2001
For 1997 legislation (LEGGE REGIONALE 7 luglio 1997 n. 26),see <www.regione.liguria.it>(in Italian).
Francisco Manuel Garcia, 28 September 2001
image byMello Luchtenberg, 14 September 2001
Photo of thegonfaloneat <image24.webshots.com>.
Eli Gutterman, 23 October 2005
