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Municipality of Mapello Flag

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Municipality of Mapello Flag

Blue and yellow, with the arms of the town: the flag of Mapello

This flag is divided down the middle: blue on the left, yellow on the right. Across the top, in an arch, run the words «COMUNE DI MAPELLO». In the centre stands a shield divided down the middle, yellow on the left and blue on the right, with a green palm branch laid diagonally across it. A grey mural crown sits above the shield, and a wreath of olive and oak, tied with a gold ribbon, frames it from below.

The palm branch

The arms of Mapello were granted by royal decree of 6 October 1927. The blazon reads «partito d'oro e d'azzurro, al ramo di palma di verde, in banda, attraversante sulla partizione», with the ornaments of a comune. Italian Wikipedia says that the arms take up the blazon of the noble family Mapello, which had its origins in this village, replacing the silver of the first part with a gold field.

Blue and yellow

The gonfalone was granted by decree of the President of the Republic of 10 April 1967 and is a cloth divided blue and yellow («partito di azzurro e di giallo»). This flag is that cloth with the arms in the centre.

A name with no certain origin

According to Italian Wikipedia the name has no clear origin: given the position of the village on a hill, it may come from Lombard words such as «mappa», cauliflower, or «mapp», ears of maize. The earliest document is dated May 774 and concerns the will of the gasindio Taidone, which speaks of a house «in fundo Mapello».

The foot of Monte Canto

Mapello lies at the foot of Monte Canto, about ten kilometres west of Bergamo. Mapello was once famous for its sandstone, used for building, decoration and cladding. In 1428 the territory passed with the whole Bergamo area to Venice, as part of the Quadra dell'Isola, and in 1797 it passed to the Cisalpine Republic.

Who chooses it

For anyone from Mapello or from the Isola Bergamasca, for those who live far away and carry their town with them, for the Comune, its offices and civic ceremonies, 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 Mapello
Validity
Current
Years in use
from 1967 · period 1946–1999
Officiality
De facto
Type
Civic
ISO code
IT-BG
Adopting act
DPR of 10 April 1967 (gonfalone); Royal Decree of 6 October 1927 (arms)

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