Last modified: 2013-07-30 by zoltán horváth
Keywords: pisco | sunset | mountains | cartouche | cuidad de pisco |
Links: FOTW homepage |
search |
disclaimer and copyright |
write us |
mirrors
At the municipal
website, a photo shows a municipal flag in official capacity (see
detail), which is very light blue with the
coat of arms. This photo shows a table flaglet with the
arms tiled onto the diagonal of the flag, as is sometimes used in Bolivia and
Peru.
Ant;ónio Martins, Oct 27, 2007
.gif)
The Spanish
Wikipedia article on Pisco city
[later corrected]
shows what seems to be the same coat of arms but a quite different flag.
A cursory glance shows is as the 1820-1822 flag
with background white and red per saltire, and some research confirms that it
was edited by error: note
image
name incl. " "Pisco" is both the name of a Peruvian and Chilean wine grape brandy
(not grape wine brandy!) but (see the
Spanish Wikipedia) also each
of at least three Peruvian toponyms, all named after a river of that name (from
Quechua "pishku", "bird"). According to
La
Republica, 19 September 2005, a contest among the producers of
pisco and wine in the region of Lima will be
organized on 24 and 25 September in the village of
Santa Cruz de Flores. The ;“pisco
flag” will be hoisted on the main square of the village. This standard
demonstrate the importance of the Peuvian flag beverage. Ivan Sache, 20 Sep 2005
The second sentence is indeed a pun, but the first sentence really seems
to mention an actual flag (which sets the stage for the pun, of course.) It is a pun indeed. "De bandera" is used as an adjective, meaning
"excellent within its class". (Source:
Diccionario de la Real
Academia Española) This pun was more than one-off in this 2005 newspaper story, as the
Peruvian government has actually a program for classification of traditional
products and services called exactly Productos bandera del Perú.
See official
regulation and the
Spanish Wikipedia.
It doesn't seem to have a flag, though. It is not clear which flag was raised in the cerimony reported by Ivan:
Either an actual flag standing for a beverage (which would be original, even
if not unique), or the flag of a territorial administrative division’s
— either Pisco District, or Pisco Province. The name of the
beverage and the name of the river and its toponyms share a common origin,
as pisco is grown, destilled and exported from
this
same region. So, even if the reported event took place in
Santa Cruz de Flores in Lima
region (which is also located within the pisco produce demarcated
area), it is quite possible that the flag raised was Pisco city (district or
province) flag, not a putative pisco flag. On the other hand, the
original
quote was: ;«Previamente al festival se izará la Bandera del
Pisco» Note "del" (="of the"), instead of "de" (="of")
— which would be the usual way to refer to a city flag. Could it be an
award/signal flag indicating that the location where it is rightly hoisted
lies within the recognized wine prodution area?1821_-_1822"
Ant;ónio Martins, 27 Oct 2007
Pisco brandy flag?
António Martins, 21 Feb 2008Previamente al festival se izará la Bandera del Pisco, en la
Plaza principal del poblado. Es un estandarte que demuestra la importancia de
nuestro licor de bandera.
There seems to be a pun intended in the last sentence. In the original
article (in Spanish), the pisco is called «nuestro licor
de bandera», which for sure does not mean that is made by
distilling flags but that it is a national symbol, like a flag would be.
In Spanish, to raise the flag of something also seems to be an image for
fighting for a given cause. However, it seems to me that a real flag hoisting
will be performed in Santa Cruz de Flores. There is, as usual, no description
of the flag.
António Martins, 21 Sep 2005
Santiago Dotor, 21 Sep 2005
António Martins, 21 Feb 2008
