Brescia
BRESCIA
Region : Lombardia
Province : Brescia
| Italian | 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. |
| English | blazon wanted |
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.
 The arms in a 16th century manuscript |
 The arms in the Wapen- en Vlaggenboek van Gerrit Hesman (1708) |
 The arms in Stemmi delle principali città d'Italia. Milano (pre 1940) |
Literature: : Image from http://www.araldicacivica.it
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Index of the site; legend from Bowd, S. D.: Venice’s Most Loyal City. Civic Identity in Renaissance Brescia, Cambridge, 2010, p. 37