Tuscany Region (Italy)

Regione Toscana

Last modified: 2000-01-18 by dov gutterman
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by Ivan Sache , September 1999

• Description of the Flag

See also:

• Italy
• Italian historical flags
• Tuscany Historical Flags
• Florencia Republic
• Italian regions
• Clickable map of Tuscany

Provinces :

• Arezzo
• Florence
• Grosseto
• Livorno
• Lucca
• Massa Carrara
• Pisa
• Pistoia
• Prato
• Siena

Communes:

• Abetone
• Arezzo
• Aulla
• Bagnone
• Borgo San Lorenzo
• Carrara
• Casola in Lungiana
• Castiglione della Pescaia
• Certaldo
• Comano
• Filattiera
• Fivizzano
• Fosdinovo
• Florence
• Licciana Nardi
• Livorno
• Massa
• Mulazzu
• Pisa
• Podenzana
• Pontremolli
• Siena
• Tresana
• Villafranca in Lunigiana
• Zeri

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

This flag is listed under number 55 at the chart "Flags of Aspirant Peoples" [asp] as: "Tuscany (Toscana) - Central Italy." - Horizontal red-white-red with coat-of-arms.
Ivan Sache , September 1999

4 kinds of CoAs and some 4 kinds of 'marchi' (Italian for 'logo'?) at: http://www.regione.toscana.it/ita/stemma/
Jarig Bakker11 September 1999