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Marche Flag

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Marche Flag

The woodpecker and the M: the flag of Marche

The flag of Marche is white and carries the Region's coat of arms in the centre: a white shield bordered in green holding a stylised woodpecker partly overlapping a large black M. Above, in green, the words «Regione Marche». An image that comes from very far away, from the time of the Picentes.

The people of the woodpecker

Long before the Region there were the Picentes, an ancient Italic people who lived in Picenum. According to ancient tradition they were of Sabine origin, and their name was said to come from «picus», the woodpecker, the bird sacred to Mars.

A migration led by a bird

The legend tells that it was a woodpecker that guided their migration, the «ver sacrum», the sacred spring, from inner Sabina to Picenum. Many centuries later, that woodpecker made its way into the Region's coat of arms.

The coat of arms of 1980

The coat of arms was adopted with regional law no. 13 of 15 March 1980: the stylised drawing of a woodpecker partly overlapping the capital letter M, in black, on a white field bounded by a green stripe in the shape of a shield. The M is the region's initial; the woodpecker, its past.

From gonfalone to flag

The same law created the gonfalone: white, with the words «Regione Marche» in green and the coat of arms in the centre, completed by a tricolour ribbon tied below the finial. The flag of Marche takes up its design: the white field, the green lettering and the woodpecker on the M.

Who chooses it

For anyone from Marche or with roots there, for families who emigrated and associations of people from Marche around the world, for a town hall, a school or a Pro Loco, for historical re-enactments, sagre and village festivals, for fans of the region's teams, for a restaurant or a shop selling products from Marche. 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
Regione Marche
Validity
Current
Years in use
unknown · period 1946–1999
ISO code
IT-57
Use
Not applicable
Proportions
2:3
Number of colours
1
Colour
White

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