I've Said It Before, and I'll Say It Again

What have I said before? And what will I say again?

Simply, that you can find heraldry everywhere!

And this statement can be true, even if you never leave your house! Witness the following scenario:

I regularly watch new episodes of House Hunters International on HGTV. I like seeing places, some of which I've been to and most of which are new to me, and I get to learn a little bit about the local culture in without leaving the pleasant surroundings of my own living room.

So I was watching a recent episode of House Hunters International, where a couple was looking for a home/business in Poggio Bustone, Italy, a historic town in Italy's Lazio region, located northeast of Rome in the province of Rieti.

And as I sat there watching, just minding my own business and learning something about this little commune, the camera panned across a building there to show me this:

I had a hunch that this is the arms of Poggio Bustone, but I thought that I would confirm that before saying it out loud. (Or in typeface, like here on this blog!)

So I went out to one of my favorite websites for such things, Heraldry of the World, and found this image:

Which not only confirmed that the arms I saw on the show are the arms of the commune, but also shows the colors, so we can fashion a blazon.

For this blazon, I am going to assume, that since the area is a big olive growing region, that the crossed clubs in the center of the shield are for knocking olives out of the olive trees in the area.

So here is my attempt at a blazon (in English): Gules two wooden clubs [or cudgels] in saltire or between in pale a mullet of six points and a mount of six hills issuant from base argent and in fess the letters P and B sable.

Anyway, running across this coat of arms just helped to prove my point once again, that You Can Find Heraldry Everywhere! Even sitting in your own living room doing nothing heraldry-related!