http://www.ngw.nl/int/hon/b/images/budapest.jpg

Above are the arms of Budapest, where I am going to be a having a souvenir sheet I designed at an exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts there next year.

Daniel C. Boyer wrote:

http://www.ngw.nl/int/hon/b/images/budapest.jpg

Above are the arms of Budapest, where I am going to be a having a souvenir sheet I designed at an exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts there next year.

Is that one castle for Buda and one for Pest or did them make a new one when the two cities came together?

They made a new one in 1873 , and they are the ubited arms of Buda in the bottom and Pest in top and put the fess wavy in between to represent the river Danube.

emrys wrote:

They made a new one in 1873 , and they are the ubited arms of Buda in the bottom and Pest in top and put the fess wavy in between to represent the river Danube.

This is essentially true, but my only quibble is that it seems to be a bar at best (even a barrulet?) rather than a fess.  But is it supposed to be a fess?

That is what it said in the blason, but the book was in English so it could be something else.

also nice.

Sirs:

There is a CoA similar to the one of Budapest.

It is the CoA of the Madrid Autonomous Community.

The two castles mean this region is between the two Castiles (the new and the oldest).

(The stars are a reference to a constellation called “The Bear”).

The CoA appears in this page in Spanish:

http://enciclopedia.us.es/index.php/Imagen:Escudo_comunidad_madrid.png

And in this page in English:

http://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comunitat_de_Madrid

Sirs:

Sorry. This is the page in English:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madrid_(autonomous_community)