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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 ...
Cockade of Italy Gianni Rivera, soccer player of A.C. Milan, with the cockade of Italy, in an image from the early 1970s. The cockade of Italy (Italian: Coccarda italiana tricolore) is the national ornament of Italy, obtained by folding a green, white and red ribbon into a plissé using the technique called plissage (pleating).
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]
Milan is the location of La Scala opera house, one of the most prestigious opera houses in the world, [8] and throughout history has hosted the premieres of numerous operas, such as Nabucco by Giuseppe Verdi in 1842, La Gioconda by Amilcare Ponchielli, Madama Butterfly by Giacomo Puccini in 1904, Turandot by Giacomo Puccini in 1926, and more ...
Emblem of the Italian Republic rendered in black and white State ensign of the Italian Republic (since 2003). The central element of the emblem is the five-pointed star white star, also called Stella d'Italia (English: "Star of Italy"), which is the oldest national symbol of Italy, since it dates back to ancient Greece. [1]
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A symbol of contemporary Milan, Piazza Gae Aulenti is the setting for several commercials and photo shoots, as well as musical and social events, thanks in part to the presence of the IBM Studios, [6] a multipurpose space made of wood and concrete on the border between the square and the Park Library.