Hellas Verona

Hellas Verona Football Club S.p.A is an Italian football team, based in Verona. The team's colours are yellow and blue and "i gialloblù" (literally, "the yellow-blue" in Italian) is the team's most widely used nickname. The colours represent the city itself and Verona's emblem (a yellow cross on a blue shield) appears on most team apparel. Two more team nicknames are "i mastini" ("the mastiffs") and "gli scaligeri", both references to Mastino I della Scala of the Della Scala princes that ruled the city during the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries.

Related Topics:
Italian - Football - Verona - Emblem - Mastiffs - Della Scala princes - Thirteenth - Fourteenth centuries

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The Scala family coat of arms is depicted on the team's jersey and on its trademark logo as a stylized image of two large, powerful mastiffs facing opposite directions. In essence, the term "scaligeri" is synonymous with Veronese, and therefore can describe anything or anyone from Verona (eg., AC Chievo Verona, a team that also links itself to the Scala family - specifically to Cangrande della Scala).

Related Topics:
Scala family - Coat of arms - Mastiffs - AC Chievo Verona

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