{"id":613,"date":"2026-05-29T10:19:25","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T10:19:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flags.page\/en\/glossary\/gonfalon\/"},"modified":"2026-05-29T10:19:25","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T10:19:25","slug":"gonfalon","status":"publish","type":"term","link":"https:\/\/flags.page\/es\/glossary\/gonfalon\/","title":{"rendered":"Gonfalon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A **gonfalon** is a flag suspended from a horizontal crossbar carried on a vertical staff, rather than bent on by its hoist edge. The lower edge is often cut into tails or scallops. Gonfalons originated in medieval Italian city-states and remain in use for civic and ecclesiastical ceremony, and as the formal banners of universities.<\/p>\n<p>**Example**: The gonfalons of the contrade of Siena are paraded before the Palio horse race.<\/p>\n<p>**See also**: [banner](\/glossary\/banner\/), [standard](\/glossary\/standard\/), [vexilloid](\/glossary\/vexilloid\/), [pennon](\/glossary\/pennon\/)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-613","term","type-term","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flags.page\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/term\/613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flags.page\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/term"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flags.page\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/term"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flags.page\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}