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—Tommaso da Caponago, 1448, Casa dei Panigarola, Milano In later centuries the coat of arms of Milan was sometimes embellished with the effigy of St. Ambrose. Beginning in the 16th century other ornaments such as cartouches, crowns and fronds began to appear. The gonfalon of Milan The first gonfalon of the city of Milan was a tapestry made around 1565 by embroiderers Scipione Delfinone and ...
Football club Inter Milan is commonly represented by a biscione, and the team's 2010–11 and 2021–22 away shirts prominently featured the symbol. Milan-based auto manufacturer Alfa Romeo (also known as the Casa del Biscione, Italian for "House of the Biscione" or "Biscione['s] marque") includes a biscione in its logo impaled with a red cross ...
The flag of Milan appears on the crest of Serie A side AC Milan. [4] Pro-Lombardy independence parties, Lega Lombarda and Pro Lombardia Indipendenza, both use the flag as a symbol for their movements. The logo of the car manufacturer Alfa Romeo, originally based in Milan, incorporates the cross from the flag. [5]
A square blue flag with the Emblem of Italy in the middle. 14 October 2000–16 January 2003 Standard of the president of Italy A square blue flag, with in the middle the flag of the Napoleonic Italian Republic, with the golden Emblem of Italy on the green square. 17 January 2003–13 April 2006 Standard of the president of Italy
Mediolanum superimposed on modern Milan. The lighter rectangle in the centre, slightly to the right, represents the modern Cathedral Square, while the modern Castle Sforzesco is located at the top left, just outside the route of the Roman walls Wooden model preserved at the Civic Archaeological Museum of Milan showing a reconstruction of the imperial Mediolanum A section of Roman wall (11 m ...
The symbol is present on the coat of arms of the House of Sforza (which ruled over Italy from Milan during the Renaissance period), the city of Milan, the historical Duchy of Milan (a 400-year state of the Holy Roman Empire) and Insubria (a historical region the city of Milan falls within).
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Napoleon invaded Italy in 1796. Milan was the capital of the Transpadane Republic from 1796 to 1797, of the Cisalpine Republic from 1797 to 1802, of the Napoleonic Italian Republic from 1802 to 1805 and of the Napoleonic Kingdom of Italy from 1805 to 1814. On 26 May 1805, Napoleon crowned himself King of Italy in the Milan Cathedral with the ...