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Sunday, June 4th, 2006
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Your city/town arms?
My birthtown. Castelló de la Plana, Spain.
 My hometown. València, Spain.  The arms of the City of Valencia on a Middle Age building.  
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'Dardanidae duri, quae uos a stirpe parentum prima tulit tellus, eadem uos ubere laeto
accipiet reduces. Antiquam exquirite matrem: hic domus Aeneae cunctis dominabitur oris, et nati natorum, et qui nascentur ab illis.'  We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light. –Plato– 
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Sunday, June 4th, 2006
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Re: Your city/town arms?
  
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The traditions of the Irish people are the oldest of any race in Europe north and west of the Alps, and they themselves are the longest settled on their own soil - Edmund Curtis (A History of Ireland: From Earliest Times to 1922) The Irish are one of the most ancient nations that I know of at this end of the world, and are from as mighty a race as the world ever brought forth. For it is certain that Ireland hath had the use of letters very anciently and long before England; that they had letters anciently is nothing doubtful, for the Saxons of England are said to have their letters and learning, and learned men, from the Irish. - Edmund Spenser (writer, and British Government Official in Ireland, AD 1596). The renaissance began in Ireland seven hundred years before it was known in Italy. And Armagh, the ecclesiastical capital of Ireland, was at one time the metropolis of civilisation. - Arsene Darmesteter, Professor of Old French and Literature Ireland can indeed lay claim to a great past; she can not only boast of having been the birthplace and abode of high culture in the fifth and sixth centuries . . . but also of having made strenous efforts in the seventh and up to the tenth century to spread her learning among the German and Romance peoples, thus forming the actual fountain of our present continental civilisation. - Heinrich Zimmer, Professor of Celtic and Sanskrit, Member of the Prussian Academy of Sciences
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Sunday, June 4th, 2006
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Re: Re : Your city/town arms?
Osijek, Croatia.
Present arms:  During Yugoslavia  Charter from 1800s  Better version can be seen here -> http://www.mdc.hr/osijek/eng/4-povij...povijesni.html Older, historical, arms of the city(also present on the charter above) Last edited by Zrinski; Sunday, June 4th, 2006 at 16:31.
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Sunday, June 4th, 2006
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Re: Your city/town arms?
City of Belgrade & Belgrade municipality of Vozdovac
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''During the five years we demonstrated all that we knew and were able to do, all our powers, but also our frailties. We were united and strong, surpassing both others and ourselves. We fascinated the world, both friends and enemies, with our dignified and fervent resistance to new world order which favoured our enemies and their genocidal plans of obliterating the Serb people.'' Dr.Radovan Karadzic http://www.savekosovo.org/ http://istina.srpskinacionalisti.com/
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Sunday, June 4th, 2006
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Re: Your city/town arms?
svin, is that St. George?
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The traditions of the Irish people are the oldest of any race in Europe north and west of the Alps, and they themselves are the longest settled on their own soil - Edmund Curtis (A History of Ireland: From Earliest Times to 1922) The Irish are one of the most ancient nations that I know of at this end of the world, and are from as mighty a race as the world ever brought forth. For it is certain that Ireland hath had the use of letters very anciently and long before England; that they had letters anciently is nothing doubtful, for the Saxons of England are said to have their letters and learning, and learned men, from the Irish. - Edmund Spenser (writer, and British Government Official in Ireland, AD 1596). The renaissance began in Ireland seven hundred years before it was known in Italy. And Armagh, the ecclesiastical capital of Ireland, was at one time the metropolis of civilisation. - Arsene Darmesteter, Professor of Old French and Literature Ireland can indeed lay claim to a great past; she can not only boast of having been the birthplace and abode of high culture in the fifth and sixth centuries . . . but also of having made strenous efforts in the seventh and up to the tenth century to spread her learning among the German and Romance peoples, thus forming the actual fountain of our present continental civilisation. - Heinrich Zimmer, Professor of Celtic and Sanskrit, Member of the Prussian Academy of Sciences
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Sunday, December 24th, 2006
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Re: Your city/town arms?
LOL! No!
Twice Loyal
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'Dardanidae duri, quae uos a stirpe parentum prima tulit tellus, eadem uos ubere laeto
accipiet reduces. Antiquam exquirite matrem: hic domus Aeneae cunctis dominabitur oris, et nati natorum, et qui nascentur ab illis.' We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light. –Plato–
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Sunday, December 24th, 2006
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Re: Your city/town arms?
 The city of Castrovillari.
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"I failed my metaphysics exam when my teacher caught me looking into the soul of the boy next to me" Some find it in a flag, some in the beat of a drum Some with a book, and some with a gun Some in a kiss, and some on the march But if you're looking for Europe, best look in your heart -Sol Invictus
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Monday, December 25th, 2006
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Re: Your city/town arms?
 Perm', Urals, Russia - Silver bear symbol of pagan beleifs of local natives (Kydym-Osh - half bear-half human, hero of Komi-Permian myths), Bible on it symbol of loyality to Russian Empire, may by "roman salute" of the bear symbol of loyality to "3rd Rome" too ;-)
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Tuesday, December 26th, 2006
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Re: Your city/town arms?
My hometown, Strasbourg, Alsace, France.
 My birthtown, Montbeliard, Franche-Comté, France. 
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My business is to succeed, and I am good at it. I create my Iliad by my actions, create it day by day. - Napoleon Bonaparte
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Tuesday, December 26th, 2006
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Re: Your city/town arms?
@Carnyx : Barcelona?
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My business is to succeed, and I am good at it. I create my Iliad by my actions, create it day by day. - Napoleon Bonaparte
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Wednesday, December 27th, 2006
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Re: Your city/town arms?
My hometown arms.
 And a cute unofficial version I have found. 
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"Do not be suprised, my friend, that I long so much for remote lands in which people feel immensely rich with very little; it is true that I live in Rome enjoying a life of fame and prestige, but it is also true that I was born from Celts and Iberians." --Marcus Valerius Martialis, Epigrammata
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