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Motovun (in Italian: Montona) is an ancient town on a hill
overlooking the Mirna river valley. Motovun is quite well known
tourist destination for its exceptional pitorequeness as well as
recently stated film festival. Population 2,500, but only some
600 in the old town on the hill.
Motovun has a histocial coat of arms that was recently
artistically mathced the period. However both I and Tomsialv
found it only on small examples - for me too hard to make much
out of it, except for the description. Anyone at this time blazon
only: azure a five-towered massoned citty argent with gates or on
a tripple mount vert with a rose gules.
Oddly (I say oddly, since the tourism is so important to this
town) the flag is not yet reported...
Željko Heimer, 2 January 2005
Motovun is quite an important tourist place with many
international events which makes it strange that not single info
on the flag is available until now - suggesting that the flag
might not be in use
However, the designer's Heraldic
Art site brings us the drawing of the ceremonial
flag of Motovun. Atypically the ceremonial flag is bicolour
and does not include the inscription of the name of the
community. The name might have been avoided so not to include
bilingual inscriptions in this officially bilingual community.
The bicolour backgrounds is not so easily explained, but the
ceremonial flag need not to follow the government prescriptions
on single colour background (only the "official" i.e.
normal fags are covered with those regulations). The oak
branches, no doubt represent the Motovun forest, surrounding the
city on a steep hill, in the valley of the river Mirna, that is
renown on the truffles growing there - under earth growing
mushrooms highly prized as gastronomic spices. The roses in the
tails are, no doubt inspired by the rose in the coat of arms.
The coat of arms may be blazoned so: azure a five-towered masoned
city argent with gates or on a triple mount vert with a rose
gules.
Željko Heimer, 27 October 2007
image by Željko Heimer, 27 October 2007
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image by Željko Heimer, 27 October 2007