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The city of Novigrad - Cittanova (both Croatian and Italian
names are in use as the two city is bilingual) is set some 60 km.
north-west of Pula, at the mouth of
the Mirna river into the Adriatic. The city uses it's historical
coat of arms: argent a saltire gules.
It is in frequent use, including the official site at <www.novigrad-cittanova.com>,
however, I have not found any hint that it had been officially
aodpted, and therefore no flag to match it either. I suppose that
if the city come to it once, it shall have no problems with the
Ministry regarding the adoption.
From the abovementioned site it can be seen that the stone
carvings with coat of arms of Novigrad are preserved today from
at least 14th century, and since at least early 17th century the
cross is finally determined to be a saltire thoughout.
Željko Heimer, 20 Febuary 2004
Tomislav šipek roported from his personal observation in
Novigrad in December 2004 that the coat of arms in actual use is
in somewhat different shape then I previously reported. He also
witnessed flag to be white with that coat of arms in the middle.
Željko Heimer, 2 January 2005
The coat of arms is such as I reported: semicircular. The flag
with it too. The "concave" coat of arms is the one used
in 1980's with light blue field.
Željko Heimer, 9 January 2005
From Statut Grada Novgrada | Statuto della Citta' di
Cittanova, 05.10.2001, Službene novine Grada Novigrada |
Bollettino ufficiale della Citta' di Cittanova, br. | no 11/2001
at <www.novigrad.hr>:
The articles 9 and 10 describe the coat of arms and the flag
rather simply: "The coat of arms of Novigrad is the
historical coat of arms, shield shaped coloured silver inscribed
with a cross of St. Andrew coloured red." and "The flag
of Novigrad is white with the COA of Novigrad in the centre of
it, so that the crossing point of the St. Andrew's cross matches
with the crossing point of the flag diagonals. The ratio of the
width and length of the flag is 1:2."
Željko Heimer, 5 September 2009
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image by Željko Heimer, 2 January 2005
The "concave" coat of arms
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image by Željko Heimer, 9 January 2005