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by Mello Luchtenberg, 17 April 2001
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I lack of any date concerning the gonfalon and the coat of
arms of the region. The coat of arms is quartered: in the first
and the fourth, argent a Trento eagle sable armed or; in the
second and the third, argent an eagle of Tyrol gules armed or.
The gonfalon is vertically blue and white with the coat of arms
in the middle. On the blue field, above and under are written the
words Regione Trentino-Alto Adige, on the white field
the words Region Trentino-Südtirol in gold. There
isn’t any official flag.
Pascal Vagnat, 22 September 1998
gonfanon adopted by presidencial decree 21 March 1983.
Jaume Olle, 25 September 1998
The official Alto-Adige/Sudtyrol flag has the shield of the
arms on it so it is different from Austrian Tyrol flag, but I saw
also flown the latter.
Mario Fabretto, 20 September 1996
I had the possibility to see the flag of the Trentino-Alto
Adige region. It is white over light blue with the coat of arms
of the region in the center.It seems to be unofficial
Mario Fabretto, 26 October 1999
The only place where I ever have seen hanging the flag of the
Autonomous Region Trentino-Alto Adige, is the Palace of the
Region in Trento.
Karl Palfrader, 11 August 2001
by Mello Luchtenberg, 14 September 2001
There is an image of
the gonfalone at <www.regione.taa.it>.
Jarig Bakker and Dov Gutterman, 6 September
1999
from <www.regione.taa.it>,
located by Jarig Bakker and Dov Gutterman, 6
September 1999
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
by Antonio Martins, 30 April 1999
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.
Antonio Martins, 30 April 1999
by Ivan Sache
"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 live in the Rhetian Alps, therefore in Switzerland. I wonder
if the flag sent by Marco is not specifically used by those Swiss
Ladins.
Ivan Sache, 10 Febuary 2004
As it looks we can't regard the flag with the ibex as the
official Ladine flag. I asked Mateo Taibon, who is the
coordinator of the Council for Ladinic Problems (<www.vejin.com>
or <tinyurl.com>)
and responsible for the Ladine page of the Society for Threatened
Peoples (<www.gfbv.it>
or <tinyurl.com>).
He writes that the information in the ETHNICA journal is wrong,
the Ladine flag does have the colours blue, white and green but
does not contain an ibex or anything else. Its colours
represent the blue sky, the snow covered mountains and the green
pastures of "Ladinia". This flag is also showed on the
two mentioned websites. He further writes that there are some
folkloristic versions on local level but none of them is the
official Ladine flag. Maybe the flag with the ibex is such an
example.
Martin Karner, 13 Febuary 2004
I never saw such a flag in the Grisons canton nor heard about
it. Gion A. Derungs from the organization "Lia
Rumantscha" (Romansh language) confirmed to me that the
"Swiss" Romanshs* (that's how the Ladins call
themselves here) don't have an own flag. It's a bit complicated
with the terms Ladin and Romansh. "Romansh" can be used
as generic term for the "Swiss" Romansh, the Italian
Ladinic and the Friulic (Italy) dialects. If you look to the
language map of the Grisons canton at <www.liarumantscha.ch>
(on that website you find also a Romansh-English dictionnary),
you can see that there are also two areas of Ladinic idioms (the
white areas are German or Italian speaking). As for the
"Swiss" Romanshs, it is correct to say that they speak
Romansh (even if they come from the Ladinic sub-areas), but on
the other hand, no Italian Ladine would call himself a Romansh,
they just use the term Ladine (as far as I can see).
*"Swiss" is just meant as an adjective and it's not
part of the name. The Romanshs just call themselves and their
language "Romansh" or "Rheto-Romansh".
Martin Karner, 19 and 21 Febuary 2004
