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![[The flag of Aosta Valley]](../images/i/it-aosta.gif)
image by Jaume Olle', 18 July 1996
See also:
Provinces:
For municipalities, see Aosta Valley Province
The traditional flag is red and black.
Alessio Bragadini, 25 November 1995
Black and red flag that was undulating in various places.
Hoisted 1947. Ratio 2.3.
Jaume Olle', 18 July 1996
The Gonfalone and the Coat
of Arms were adopted on the 13th July 1987. The coat of arms
was however already used by the Province of Aosta and the region
since it was created after the Second World War. The Coat of Arms is sable a lion argent tongued and
armed gules, the shield being surmounted by an antic crown or.
The gonfalone is vertically divided red and
black with the coat of arms in the middle and the words Région
autonome Vallée d'Aoste above and Regione autonoma
Valle d’Aostain gold under.
There is a flag, not officially adopted, black-red for the region
since the years 1940s. In March 1947, the Council of the Valley
wrote a statute of autonomy for the region. In this statute, the
article 3 said that the flag of the region was black and red.
This project of statute was transmitted in May 1947 to the state
authorities, but since this appeared as granting too much
autonomy for the region, this statute was rejected. The
discussions about the statute brought many reactions in the
national assembly and a proposal of inserting an alinea in the
article 3 of the statute, recognizing the black-red flag as the
official flag of the Valley was rejected by the majority of the
commissioners, the flag being considered by Rome as a separatist
flag.
Pascal Vagnat, 22 September 1998
This flag is listed under number 51 at the chart "Flags
of Aspirant Peoples" [eba94]
as: "Val d'Aosta (Valdôtain francophones) - North-West
Italy." I think that not all Valdotains are francophones. I
imagine their number is decreasing. Official name of the region
is "Valle d'Aosta".
Ivan Sache, 22 September 1999
There's no coat of arms in the Valle d'Aosta flag. The coat of
arms of the city of Aosta and the region of Valle d'Aosta are
different.
Bruno Fracasso, 31 December 2001
The flag is a simple bicolour black and red. There is no coat
of arms on it. I think the Flag with Coat of Arms
is a variation used by the Union Valdotaine. The flag of the
Valley hasn't been adopted officially, but it is official
indirectly. It is mentionned in the "statuts / statuto"
of each commune. Example: Statuts of the commune of Charvensod,
Bulletin officiel de la région autonome Vallée d'Aoste, 12
February. "Article 7-4: (translation) "In the cases
mentionned in the law, the flag of the Autonomous Region Valley
of Aosta flies always with the flags of the Italian Republic and
the European Union."
The Gonfalone and the Coat of
Arms were adopted be Presidential decree of the 13th Juny
1987.
Pascal Vagnat, 2 May 2003
The Italian autonomous region of Valley d'Aosta has, at last,
officially adopted its black and red flag. The flag was
officially adopted with the Regional Law n°6 of the 16th of
March 2006 (in French : Loi régionale n° 6 du 16 mars 2006,
portant dispositions propres à mettre en valeur l'autonomie et
réglementation des signes distinctifs de la Région. Abrogation
de la loi régionale n° 2 du 20 avril 1958/ in Italian: Legge
regionale 16 marzo 2006, n. 6. Disposizioni per la valorizzazione
dell'autonomia e disciplina dei segni distintivi della Regione.
Abrogazione della legge regionale 20 aprile 1958, n. 2.).
The text carries provisions as concerns the Day of the regional
Statute, the Day of the Valley of Aosta, the characteristics and
use of the coat of arms, of the gonfalon and of the flag, methods
of execution of the regional anthem and attribution of regional
decorations and other provisions suitable to emphasize the
autonomy and the knowledge of the institutions.
Text of the law is at <www.regione.vda.it>.
Here is an excerpt (translated):
"Art. 5
(characteristics of the flag)
1. the flag of the Region Area is a fabric of rectangular shape
of which height is equal to two thirds of the lenght, vertically
divided into two equal parts, one black and the other red, the
black part being at the pole".
Pascal Vagnat, 29 May 2006
image by Mello luchtenberg, 13 April 2001
The coat of arms is based on the coat of arms that can been
seen on several web pages. All these coat of arms are shown with
a crown. My question is: has the flag also a coat of arms with a
crown or is it without a crown. I have made the flag first
without the crown but I doubt if it is correct.
Mello luchtenberg, 13 April 2001
image by Mello luchtenberg, 30 July 2002
I found a little picture
of the flag of the Italian region "Valle d'Aosta". It
looks like the flag above [and other sites] is wrong. The hoist
is red instead of black and the fly is black instead of red. The
shield on the flag has also a crown just like the CoA of the
region.
Mello luchtenberg, 30 July 2002
Actually from that photo, the fly looks blue, not black.
Jorge Candeias, 1 August 2002
This is just a simplification of the gonfalone
of that region in form of a flag. The regional flag is black-red
and is official though there isn't any law about it.
Pascal Vagnat, 2 August 2002
It was officialised in the 1980s and is red-black with the
coat of arms in the middle and the words Regione Autonoma
Valle d'Aosta and Région autonome Vallée d'Aoste.
Pascal Vagnat, 2 August 2002
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image by Mello luchtenberg, 13 April 2001
