City Municipality of Stari Grad
City of Beograd, Beogradski region
- Bearer
- City Municipality of Stari Grad
- Author
- Dragomir Acović
- Decision
- Statute of the City Municipality of Stari Grad, Article 5
- Grad
- City of Belgrade
- Region
- Belgrade Region
- Eparchy
- Archbishopric of Belgrade and Karlovci
- Official website
- starigrad.org.rs
The City Municipality of Stari Grad uses arms in three levels — lesser, middle and greater — and a banner, whose author is Dragomir Acović of the Serbian Heraldry Society. The arms are prescribed by Article 5 of the municipal statute, and the banner repeats the content of the shield. Since the municipality covers the oldest part of Belgrade, the arms draw on the oldest known arms of the city, from the thirteenth–fourteenth century: a silver tower between two gold double crosses above red and silver stripes.
Blazon
A shield divided horizontally: above, on red, a silver crenellated wall with three crenellations, the middle one wider, rises from the line of division; behind the middle crenellation rises a round silver tower of two storeys, with crenellations and two arched windows on each storey, and on each side crenellation stands a gold patriarchal cross with trefoil ends. Below, on red, two silver bars.
A golden mural crown with four crenellations, in the middle and greater arms.
Two silver eagles with red claws, gold beaks and legs, with wings raised for flight; the dexter holds the banner of Belgrade, the sinister the banner of Stari Grad, both fringed with gold and flown from black lances with gold heads.
The rampart of the Kalemegdan Fortress with watchtowers at the corners, in natural colours.
A white ribbon with the black inscription “СТАРИ ГРАД”.
A square banner repeating the content of the shield: on red a white crenellated wall with a white tower with black windows and two yellow patriarchal crosses on the side crenellations, and below it white and red horizontal stripes.
Symbolism and meaning
Stari Grad is the oldest part of Belgrade, and so the municipality's arms repeat the motifs of the oldest known arms of the city, which date from the thirteenth–fourteenth century.
