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The Coat of Arms of Vargas State

Heraldical Description


The Coat of Arms of Vargas State consists of a compound shape enameled in sky blue in which is appraised the facade of one old colonial house from which rising a sun in Gules (red) with nine gilded rays all superposed on a species of haul in Azur (blue) loaded with four five pointed stars in Or (yellow) disposed on the Chief.

The colonial house can be the old seat of the Guipuzcoan Company located front of the Port of La Guaira: an higjest historical and architectonic patrimony, as much of the state as of the Nation.

The sun and the stars derives from the Flag that the State adopted, created by Manuel Gual and Jose Maria España conserving its conventional primitive meaning: the sun represents the Equality between all human beings because it lighting all in the same way and symbolizes the Wisdom which shall prevail on the mind of every republican man or woman for acting with Equity and Justice; the stars remembers the inalienable Human Rights of the Freedom, Equality, Property and Security.

As external ornaments the blazon presents an Argent (white) fess containing the inscription "ESTADO VARGAS" in capital gothic letters in Sable (black). The fess emphasizes the name of the state: their belonging to the Fatherland and its regional identity would be raised by means of the Flags. The sentry boxes would allude to the Castle that was building near the Port of La Guaira on colonial times for protect it of invader attacks.

The shield is flanked by two sentry boxes or observation posts and added of two flags: Venezuelan one to the dexter and another of the Vargas State to the sinister as crests and as supports a crown of natural laurel jointed under the base by a pennant in Azure (blue) loading as mottoes the inscription "IGUALDAD, LIBERTAD, PROPIEDAD Y SEGURIDAD" ("Equalíty, Freedom, Property and Security") in capital gothic letters of Argent (white) all inserted in a species of aureole filleted on Vert (green) and Or (yellow).

The laurel crown remembers the triumph and the pennant streamer would be a reaffirmation of the motto which inspired the Gual and España's revolt on 1797.