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Italian Regions Flags Quiz

The flags of Italy's twenty regions on a flat map — from the Sicilian triskelion and the four Moors of Sardinia to the lion of Venice. Click a region or drag the flag onto it: three tries per flag, then the map shows the answer. One name, one hint and one skip are free for the round.

Drag the flag onto a region, or click the region. Name shows the region the flag belongs to, Hint opens all three facts about it; after three misses, or Skip, the map places it for you. Scroll or pinch to zoom in.

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Italian Regions Flags Quiz

Drag the flags of Italy's twenty regions onto a flat map of Italy, three tries each. No labels.

Regions younger than their emblems

Italy's ordinary regions elected their first councils only in 1970, and the five with special statutes not long before, so most of these flags are recent, a regional emblem on a plain field adopted since the 1970s. A handful are far older banners. Sicily is yellow and red on the diagonal, the colours of Palermo and Corleone, with the trinacria in the middle: three running legs around a Gorgon's head with ears of wheat. Sardinia is a red cross on white with a black Moor's head in each quarter, a white band on the forehead, facing the hoist. Veneto is the winged lion of Saint Mark with an open book on a panel of sea and land, framed in red, with seven tails at the fly carrying the arms of the seven provinces. Piedmont is the white cross of Savoy on red with a blue border and a blue label, the arms of the princes of Piedmont. Aosta Valley is black and red halves.

Eagles, a bend and a Pegasus: emblems with a history

Trentino-South Tyrol is white over blue with a quartered shield of the black eagle of Trento and the red eagle of Tyrol. Friuli-Venezia Giulia is a gold eagle on blue perched on a battlemented wall, from the arms of the patriarchs of Aquileia. Campania is a white shield with a red diagonal band on dark blue, the arms of the maritime republic of Amalfi. Tuscany is a silver Pegasus between two red stripes on white, the emblem of the Tuscan Liberation Committee of 1944. Lombardy is the white rosa camuna on green, a four-lobed rose from the prehistoric rock carvings of Val Camonica, redrawn in 1975. Marche is a black and white woodpecker inside a green shield, the bird that in legend guided the Picene people to the region. Umbria is green with three stylised red candles, the ceri raced through Gubbio every May.

Words, waves and an octagon: the logos

Liguria is vertical green, red and blue with a shield bearing the red cross of Genoa, four stars for the four provinces and a stylised ship. Apulia is the Italian tricolour with an olive tree inside a red octagon, the plan of Frederick II's Castel del Monte, under a gold crown and the words Regione Puglia. Lazio is light blue with an octagon holding the arms of its five provinces under a crown, lettered Regione Lazio. Calabria is blue with a white disc holding a pine of the Sila, a Byzantine cross, a cross potent and a Doric capital for Magna Graecia, between the words Regione and Calabria. Molise is light blue with a red shield crossed by a silver band under an eight-pointed star, lettered Regione Molise. Basilicata is dark blue with a grey shield of four wavy blue lines, its four main rivers. Abruzzo is crimson with a shield cut into white, green and blue for snowy mountains, hills and sea, the gold outline of the Warrior of Capestrano, an Iron Age statue found in the region, standing over it above a Latin motto. Emilia-Romagna is white with a green square framing a stylised map of the region, its name beneath.

Six blue fields: how to tell them apart

Six flags are blue, and words settle three: Lazio, Molise and Calabria print their names. Campania and Basilicata do not, but Campania's shield is white with a red diagonal and Basilicata's grey with blue waves; Friuli-Venezia Giulia is the only one with an eagle and no shield. Marche and Emilia-Romagna are both white with a green emblem: a rounded shield with a bird against a lettered square frame. Lombardy and Umbria are both green: a white rose against red candles in a frame. Liguria's third stripe is blue, so it is not the tricolour; Apulia's is. Piedmont, Aosta Valley, Abruzzo and Sicily share a red cloth: look for the white cross, the black half, the shield, the yellow triangle. Sardinia and Tuscany are both white with red, but only one has heads in the corners.

All 20 regions and their capitals

20 regions are on this map, listed in alphabetical order with their capitals — the same facts the Hint button draws on. All of them are in the deck.

  1. AbruzzoL'Aquila
  2. Aosta ValleyAosta
  3. ApuliaBari
  4. BasilicataPotenza
  5. CalabriaCatanzaro
  6. CampaniaNaples
  7. Emilia-RomagnaBologna
  8. Friuli-Venezia GiuliaTrieste
  9. LazioRome
  10. LiguriaGenoa
  11. LombardyMilan
  12. MarcheAncona
  13. MoliseCampobasso
  14. PiedmontTurin
  15. SardiniaCagliari
  16. SicilyPalermo
  17. Trentino-South TyrolTrento
  18. TuscanyFlorence
  19. UmbriaPerugia
  20. VenetoVenice

Questions about these flags

Why does the flag of Sicily have three legs?

The three legs are the trinacria, whose Greek name Trinakria means three-pointed, after the island's three capes: Peloro, Passero and Lilibeo. At the centre is the head of a Gorgon with ears of wheat for the island's fertility. Yellow and red are the colours of Palermo and Corleone, the first towns to rise in the Sicilian Vespers of 1282; the region made the flag official in 2000.

What are the four Moors on the flag of Sardinia?

Four heads with white bands, arranged round a red cross of Saint George; the same device sits inside the shield on Aragon's flag, and the Aragonese kings who ruled Sardinia from the fourteenth century brought it to the island. Its origin is disputed. Since a regional law of 1999 the heads face the hoist and the band sits on the forehead instead of over the eyes.

Which Italian regional flags have words on them?

Five carry the region's name: Lazio, Molise and Calabria spell it out in capitals, Apulia writes Regione Puglia above its shield, and Emilia-Romagna prints Regione Emilia-Romagna in small type under its green square. Abruzzo adds a Latin motto on a scroll but no name. The rest rely on the emblem alone, so a written name on the card settles the region at once.

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