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Municipality of Impruneta Flag

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Municipality of Impruneta Flag

Blue, with the arms of the town: the flag of Impruneta

This flag is plain blue. In the centre stands a shield under a grey mural crown. Its upper part is blue with three pine cones hanging; its main field is silver, with a red Calvary cross standing on a green mount of three peaks. There are no branches and no text.

A cross, a mount and three pine cones

The site araldicacivica.it gives the blazon of the arms: a red Calvary cross placed on a green mount of three peaks, with a blue chief carrying three hanging pine cones. The note on that page explains that the arms are based on those of the Buondelmonti family, lords of the place and generous patrons of the Marian sanctuary, and that the pine cones, added as a mark of difference, allude to the name: they are already found in a fifteenth-century seal of the opera of the parish church of Santa Maria all'Impruneta, which shows a pine cone and relates to the old name «Santa Maria in Pineta».

The blue gonfalone

The same page lists the gonfalone of Impruneta as a plain blue cloth («drappo di azzurro»). This flag is that blue cloth with the arms in the centre.

The sanctuary and the terracotta

Italian Wikipedia says that Impruneta is famous above all for its terracotta industry, the «cotto dell'Impruneta», for the traditional Fair of San Luca held in mid-October, and for the Grape Festival on the last Sunday of September. The Marian sanctuary, built around 1060 after the finding of a sacred image of the Virgin, is one of the reasons the town is known. The tiles of the dome of Brunelleschi's Santa Maria del Fiore came from its kilns.

A comune of its own since 1929

Impruneta was the head of a league of the Florentine countryside, with a statute of 1415. It has been an autonomous comune since January 1929, after the suppression of the comune of Galluzzo and the adoption of the arms still in use.

Who chooses it

For anyone from Impruneta or from the hills south of Florence, for those who live far away and carry their town with them, for the Comune, its offices and civic ceremonies, for the potters and kilns of the cotto, for schools, associations and clubs, for a restaurant, a shop or a business that wants to show where it belongs. We sew it to order, in the size and fabric you choose above, and you see the delivery date before you pay.

Flag facts

Official name
Comune di Impruneta
Validity
Current
Years in use
from 1931 · period 1900–1945
Officiality
De facto
Type
Civic
ISO code
IT-FI
Adopting act
Royal Decree (RD) of 2 July 1931 (concession of arms and gonfalone)
Use
Not applicable
Proportions
2:3
Number of colours
1
Colour
Blue

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