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BRESCIA

Region : Lombardia
Province : Brescia

Stemma di Brescia

Official blazon

D'argento al leone d'azzurro, armato, linguato e codato di rosso. Motto: Brixia fidelis. Ornamenti esteriori da città con la corona di 5 fioroni e 5 punte gemmate.

Origin/meaning

The arms were officially granted on June 25, 1925.

The lion is connected to the legend of the founding of the city, namely that Heracles/Hercules, after defeating the hydra that lived in the nearby Lago d’Idra, started building at the place where Brescia is today, founding the settlement this way. There is one fresco in the communal palace that represents Brescia’s allegorical figure wearing a lion skin and holding a cub as a reference to Heracles’s task of defeating the Nemean lion.

Arms of Brescia

The arms in a 16th century manuscript
Arms of Brescia

The arms in the Wapen- en Vlaggenboek van Gerrit Hesman (1708)
Stemma di Brescia

The arms in Stemmi delle principali città d'Italia. Milano (pre 1940)

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Literature : Image from http://www.araldicacivica.it; legend from Bowd, S. D.: Venice’s Most Loyal City. Civic Identity in Renaissance Brescia, Cambridge, 2010, p. 37