Italia Turrita is a
personification or
allegory of
Italy, characterized by a
mural crown, a crown of
towers (Turrita means "with towers"), typical of the
Italian civic heraldics, of
communal origin (coming from classical Greece).She is a woman with an abundant and
fecund body, with the typical
Mediterranean attributes, such as a coloured and "lively" complexion and dark hair, and with an elegant and ideal beauty. She often holds in her hands a bunch of
corn ears (symbol of fertility and reference to the agricultural economy); during the reign of
fascism, she held
fasces. Over Italia Turrita is a five-point star (a secular symbol of Italy, nicknamed Stellone d'Italia, "big star of Italy", used in
Savoyard royal
coat of arms and the dominant element in the modern day
Italian coat of arms) that is purported to protect the
nation.
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