Taranto, is an Italian town, capital of the homonymous province, in Puglia.
Ancient Magna Graecia colony, it is the second largest municipality in the region and the sixteenth in the nation by population.
“While most of the Gulf of Taranto is imposing, in Taranto there is a very beautiful and large port with a perimeter of 100 stadiums, closed by a large bridge. An isthmus forms between the bottom of the port and the open sea, so that the city stands on a peninsula and since the neck of the isthmus is not very high, the ships can be easily towed from one side to the other "
(Strabo - Geography, VI, 3, 1. Translation by Nicola Biffi)
The civic coat of arms of Taranto was officially recognized on December 20, 1935:
"In blue, to the swimming dolphin, ridden by a naked sea god holding a fluttering drapery in his left arm and the trident fluttering with his right, to the head sewn in centered red, loaded with the golden shell, placed between the legend Taras"
(Royal concession decree dated December 20, 1935)
The young god riding the dolphin depicted on the coat of arms is inspired by that of the Magna Graecia coins of the city's heyday.
In 1589, a previous version of the coat of arms depicting an adult man crowned astride a dolphin, holding a trident in his right hand and a shield with a scorpion on top instead of the current cloth in his left hand, in turn replaced the ancient coat of arms. depicting a scorpion suggested by Pyrrhus, and which is currently used as a symbol of the Ionian province
Taranto
Address: Piazza Municipio, 1, 74121
Phone: 099 4581111
Site:
http://www.comune.taranto.it/Location inserted by
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