Conco

Heraldry of the World Civic heraldry of Italy - Stemmi di comuni e province d'Italia

CONCO

Region: Veneto
Province : Vicenza

Official blason:
D'azzurro al monte di tre cime al naturale, all'alabarda d'argento posta in palo uscente dalla punta.

Origin/meaning :
The arms were officially granted on December 9, 1937.

The coat of arms represents the Venetian plain on which Conco is situated and the mountains of its territory.

The halberd reminds of an episode of war of the League of Cambrai in the early 1550s. The people of Conco stopped the soldiers of the emperor Maximilian I, who wanted to decend onto the plain, in a place called "Bocchetta"

The red chief symbolises the "capo littorio"(i. e. lictorian head) which appeared on all the coat of arms granted during the fascist regime. In the middle there should be the lictorian fasces but the local authorities, without any state authorization, put on their place the new symbol of the State: the Italian star.

Literature : Image provided by Bruno, Vicenza, Italy, background by Gian Luigi Azzalini