Municipality of Veliko Gradište
Braničevo District, Region of Southern and Eastern Serbia
- Bearer
- Municipality of Veliko Gradište
- District
- Braničevo District
- Region
- Region of Southern and Eastern Serbia
- Eparchy
- Eparchy of Braničevo
- Official website
- velikogradiste.rs
The Municipality of Veliko Gradište uses an emblem in the shape of a tournament shield with a notch for the lance, in which blue, silver and red areas alternate. The insignia are not composed according to the rules of heraldry, but as a modern visual composition: the stripes are taken from the façade of the municipal building, and in the blue lower part are a gold circle within an indented semicircle, resembling a cogwheel, and part of a gold ear of wheat. The municipality interprets it as a combination of the historical and geographical features of the area, from ancient fortifications to the Danube and Silver Lake.
Blazon
A tournament shield with a notch for the lance on the dexter flank and a red border; the upper part is paly, silver and blue, over it a red bend sinister, and the lower part, separated by a curved line, is blue, with a gold circle within an indented semicircle resembling a cogwheel, open at the top, and part of a gold ear of wheat along the sinister flank.
Symbolism and meaning
According to the municipality's interpretation, the basis is a shield with a sash and vertical stripes, taken visually from the façade ornament of the upper storeys of the present municipal building, the former district office. The blue wave represents the Danube, Silver Lake and the Pek, the principal geographical features of the municipality, and the gold circle is the “tourist eye”, a sign of the view and of what the area offers the visitor. The indented semicircle around it recalls the remains of Roman and medieval fortifications — Pincum, Lederata and the Ram Fortress — while the part of the gold ear with blue stripes denotes agriculture and furrows. The whole is meant to express the unbroken history of the area, from ancient settlements to modern tourism.
