{"id":16084,"date":"2025-09-03T09:26:25","date_gmt":"2025-09-03T07:26:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.visitamalfi.info\/poi\/flags-of-the-maritime-republics\/"},"modified":"2024-07-16T12:34:53","modified_gmt":"2024-07-16T10:34:53","slug":"flags-of-the-maritime-republics","status":"publish","type":"amw_poi","link":"https:\/\/www.visitamalfi.info\/en\/poi\/flags-of-the-maritime-republics\/","title":{"rendered":"Flags of the Maritime Republics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The historian Sismondi identified Amalfi, Pisa, Genoa and Venice as Maritime Republics. He realised that they had played an essential role in Mediterranean medieval history, providing new political and social constitution models, renewing mercantile sea trade and improving navigation techniques \u2013 including the invention of new orientation instruments and the encoding of conventional maritime law practices.<\/p>\n<p>The flags of the four Maritime Republics fly on top of the Town Hall tower, that overlooks the Convent church dedicated to San Benedetto. 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