Lombardy - Italy

Lombardy is northern Italian region bordered north with tbe Alps. Most of the major Italian lakes can be found over there. South it's bordered by the river Po and in this part of the basin there are important cities like, Milan, Brescia, Begamo, Mantua and Cremona. This makes the Po Valley the high dense area and most industrialized of Italy. It's has the highest population of all Italian region's with an population of around 10 million. Important cuisine from this region is minestrone soup and osso  buco and west of Milan there are rice fields for the famous risotto. Also the Lombards not invented it but spread the use of it over Europe, the system of pawnbroker. In the Renaissance it's was forbidden to put interest on an loan, but being your valuable stuff to the Lombard bank to get money was not, only you have to pay an "fine" when you wanted your items back. The trick to bypass the rules an make misuse of the people, until regular banks came with "affordable" interests. So lets take an look at the flag.

The flag had an green background with an white curvilineair cross. The cross is called "Rosa camuna" or the rose of the Camunni. The Camunni lived in Lombardy before the Romans conquered it, they where known for the rock art carvings found over Lombardy. The meaning of the rose is not certain but they think it had to do with good luck.Around the Renaissance there were plenty of small states with important history like the duchies of Milan and Mantua and other important historical cities like Bergamo, Cremona, Pavia, Monza and Como. All of then have  their flags, colours and coat if arms,  so the use of the prehistoric rose won't offend each faction. This flag with an prehistoric image with an modern twist is to un-Italian to me.