Last modified: 2024-09-28 by martin karner
Keywords: mendrisio | salorino | arzo | capolago | genestrerio | rancate | tremona | besazio | ligornetto | meride |
Links: FOTW homepage |
search |
disclaimer and copyright |
write us |
mirrors
Gules a cross argent.
Željko Heimer, 23 October 2003
On 4 April 2004 Salorino merged into Mendrisio. On 25 November 2007 the communes of Arzo, Capolago, Genestrerio, Mendrisio, Rancate and Tremona merged with Mendrisio, which kept its old emblem. On 14 April 2013 the communes of Besazio, Ligornetto and Meride joined (see below).
Gules a cross argent and overall a cathedral or.
Željko Heimer, 22 October 2003
On the flag of Arzo, the white cross on red is similar to the ones of Lugano and Como (Italy).
The cathedral alludes to the various contributions made by Arzo, mainly the material, for the building
of the cathedral in Como, for the restoration of the facade of the "Broletto" in the same city in
1435 and for a part of the reliefs of the facade of the cathedral in Lugano.
Pascal Gross, 20 October 2003
Gules a pair of compasses or in chief and in base a marble stone with
a carved B proper.
Željko Heimer, 22 October 2003
The marble stone and the compasses on the flag of Besazio allude to the main
activity of the population, stone hewing, in the marble quarries of Besazio.
Pascal Gross, 20 October 2003
The B on the stone might allude to the cyphers carved by the stone-cutters on the stones in order to be
paid. Such marks are still visible on the stones used to build the cathedrals in Ile-de-France and
elsewhere. It is possible that the cutters of Besazio signed their stones with such a B letter.
Ivan Sache, 21 October 2003
Imapled: 1st per chevron lozengy argent and azure and of the first a castle with a tower gules and 2nd
azure a printing press or machanism vert and in base three fillets wavy argent.
Željko Heimer, 22 October 2003
The tool on the flag of Capolago is a printing press. It symbolizes the historical "Tipografia
Elvetica" of Capolago (1830–1853), which explains an important part of the movements that lead to
the unification of Italy.
Pascal Gross, 21 October 2003
See also: IMPALE(D) in Dictionary of Vexillology
Azure in chief sinister a bundel of tobacco in chief dexter a bunch of grapes both or and in base a
bunch of genista vert flowered or.
Željko Heimer, 23 October 2003
The plant on the flag of Genestrerio is a genista (in Italian ginestra) making the flag canting.
The bundle of tobacco (which we also see on the flag of Henniez VD) and the
bunch of grapes are the main plants cultivated in the village.
Pascal Gross, 23 October 2003
Per bend gules and azure a bend argent between two corn ears or.
Željko Heimer, 23 October 2003
See also: PER BEND in Dictionary of Vexillology
Quartered gules and argent in each chief quarters a mullet of eight counterchanged and overall on a
fess or a gates with two towers azure.
Željko Heimer, 23 October 2003
See also: QUARTERED in Dictionary of Vexillology
Gules three trefoils or.
Željko Heimer, 26 October 2003
Argent a lion passant azure witing an annulet gules and in the chief of the last letters C and S
flanking a star of four also argent.
Željko Heimer, 27 October 2003
See also: ANNULET in Dictionary of Vexillology
Gules a grape tub argent ringed or filled with bunches of grapes and leaves also or atop copueux vert.
Željko Heimer, 27 October 2003
The flag of Tremona features what is called in Italian brenta, translated earlier as grape tub.
With the mount of 3 coupeaux, the flag alludes to the name of the village which is, after the popular
opinion, derived from tre monti (three mounts).
Pascal Gross, 26 October 2003