As I couldn't find a vectorised version for the flag, I poorly made one myself. I tried to respect all ideas of Jandira Pistilli, the only three differences are the crops on the side (instead of inside the shield), the addition of the birds representing the Italian immigration and the motto that now reads also the date of the district's foundation instead of only the name.
Local: Quiririm
City: Taubaté
State: São Paulo
Country: Brazil
My Videos of Quiririm
29ª Festa Italiana de Quiririm (2018)
28ª Festa Italiana de Quiririm (2017)
Rolando Sterzi (a local musician) playing Fratelli D'Italia (Inno di Mameli) - 2017
My Commentary: Quiririm is a district of Taubaté which received many immigrant families from Italy. Its History is very interesting but for a long time it was more and more being forgotten by people. Recently it seemed to be having a revival of the Italian culture there with the reopening of the museum managed by Circolo Italiano but it's closed again. The only event which was kept running was Festa Italiana de Quiririm in which there is always food, music and other events concerning the local Italians (now descendants).
Links:
Esporte Clube Quiririm - Local football club
Interesting Facts:
- There is a star on the flag of Taubaté and it represents Quiririm
- When the African black people were released from slavery in Brazil, the program of bringing European immigrants was intensified. Quiririm then received many Italian families together with the towns of Guraratinguetá, Canas and Jacareí in the Paraíba Valley region.
- In 1895 the first chapel was built in Quiririm with the name of "Nossa Senhora da Conceição Aparecida"
- Quiririm has its own football team: Esporte Clube Quiririm
- In 1970 before the final match between Brazil and Italy for the World Cup, people from Taubaté "invaded" Quiririm when they heard that they would support Italy. The police was called and intervened.
History of Quiririm: The History of Indiani family represents well the reality of the Italian immigration in the region of Quiririm. The Indiani family is from Calvatone, Cremona province in the region of Lombardy, Italy. In 1892, they came to Brazil, arrived in the port of Santos, went to an Inn in Sao Paulo and from there came to the Coffee Farm Barreiro or Quilombo (as it is also known) (Taubaté), a property of Colonel José Benedito Marcondes Mattos. There were forty other families of Italian immigrants.
In Taubaté, as everywhere else in Brazil, the expectations of settlers were not met, the accommodations were poor and they were forced to eat by the "sale" of their farms leading at the end of a certain period, to a debt instead of getting money from the "sale". This situation was aggravated by the fact that the colonels (farm owners) were used to treat the workers as slaves (considering the black slaves were recently set free at that time) and the economy was in crisis because of the abolition of black slavery. The situation became unsustainable and in 1894 the families moved to a virgin forest between the rail track and the banks of the Parayba River, a property of Benedito de Paula Toledo, who believed the Italians should have their own place. In exchange for the new place to live the colonists had as mission to rectify 3 km from the riverbed of Piracangaguá River (now Quiririm River) that used to flood a large area of land.
The river is now rectified and that's the beginning of Quiririm. Immigrants began at that time to plant rice and build factories to produce ropes and bricks.
My Videos of Quiririm
28ª Festa Italiana de Quiririm (2017)
Because Quiririm doesn't have an anthem, here is the Italian National Anthem played by the marching band of CAVEX in the opening of the 21st Festa Italiana de Quiririm in 2010.
Grupo Santa Lucia "Tarantella" 21ª Festa Italiana de Quiririm (2010)
Grupo Santa Lucia: The History of the Italian immigration to Brazil
21ª Festa Italiana de Quiririm (2010)
19ª Festa Italiana de Quiririm - 2008
My Commentary: Since I moved from São Paulo City to Pindamonhangaba, I heard about this Italian Festival in the Italian District of Quiririm, which is near my current town. So this year I took the opportunity to pay it a visit and check it out.
Trying pasta and drinking a good wine
I was accompanied by my friend Paula
The flags of Italy and Brazil
25ª Festa Italiana de Quiririm - 2014
My Commentary: One more year in Quiririm. The Italian festival is not so different from the previous years, in good and bad ways. Because we know how things work there, we went in a Sunday morning to watch to the music presentations and see the fair and the decorations but we ate at Indiani restaurant, which we consider the best in the area. The difference this year is that we could visit the Museum of the Italian Immigration that was inaugurated following the renewing of the Indiani Mansion (managed by Circolo Italiano Sao Paolo)
This year they had an original idea which was placing posters with pictures and info of the traditional Italian families on the houses' walls.
A monument for the Italian immigrants of Quiririm
Antônio Naldi Park
Antônio Naldi Park
View from Antônio Naldi Park
View from Antônio Naldi Park
View from Antônio Naldi Park
Part of the church at View from Antônio Naldi Park
Nossa Senhora da Conceição Parish (The first built in Quiririm)
9 de Julho st. (July 9th) a street in Quiririm in tribute to the Paulista Revolution in 1932
The logo of the 25th Festa Italiana de Quiririm
Live music on the streets
Indiani Family
Cantina Indiani (restaurant)
Cantina Indiani (restaurant)
Cantina Indiani (restaurant) - The flag of Italy and the flag of Quiririm
Cantina Indiani (restaurant) - The flag of Quiririm
Cantina Indiani (restaurant)
Museu da Imigração Italiana (museum)
Museu da Imigração Italiana (museum)
Museu da Imigração Italiana (museum)
Museu da Imigração Italiana (museum) - A replica of an Italian house in old times Quiririm
Museu da Imigração Italiana (museum)
Museu da Imigração Italiana (museum) - A typical Italian meal room
Museu da Imigração Italiana (museum) - Machines to work the soil
Museu da Imigração Italiana (museum)
Museu da Imigração Italiana (museum)
Museu da Imigração Italiana (museum)
Museu da Imigração Italiana (museum)
Museu da Imigração Italiana (museum)
Museu da Imigração Italiana (museum) - A mysterious Celtic cross
Me and my brother with the coat of arms of Società 30 de Aprile
Museu da Imigração Italiana (museum) - Mansão Indiani ("Mansion" of the Indiani family, which with hard work managed to reach stability and progress in Quiririm)
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