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The village's coat of arms is quite bizarre. There are two colour, green and red - meaning hope and courage. In the green part there's a she-pig with her babies; this is taken from the coat of arms of the friars from Vienne (Switwerland) who once resided there. Today there is still a laymen religious society that is important in village life.
In the red part, courage, there's a lady shepard with her harvest; this is to symbolize freedom... freedom from the local lord of the castle who had all the inhabitants as his unwilling labourers. Strangely enough, because Morcote was a village inhabited mainly by fishermen, there's nothing connected with its traditional occupation.
Written Jun 7, 2007
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The village's coat of arms is quite bizarre. There are two colour, green and red - meaning hope and courage. In the green part there's a she-pig with her...
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