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The “Lt. Gen. Chinotto” Compound Memorial

The Center of Excellence for the Stability Police Units (CoESPU) is based in Vicenza, Italy, in the
“Lt. Gen. Chinotto” compound, at the same barracks
where highly specialized NATO Centre of
Excellence Stability Policing and European
Gendarmerie Force (EGF) Headquarters are co-
located.
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The CoESPU was born on 1 March, 2005: before
this date, the compound hosted the Carabinieri
Sergeants School, as detachment of the Carabinieri
NCO School in Florence.

In accordance with historical Carabinieri
traditions, the parade ground of the
“Chinotto” Compound is adorned by a
Memorial which acts as frame of the
flagpole.
Frontally looking, this monument represents
a stylization of the insignia on the left, and a

self-supporting metal plate, shaped like an irregular
trapezoid. In the background, the monument is
surrounded by ancient trees which, by contrast,
highlight its majesty.
The Carabinieri insignia is represented by an antique
flaming hand grenade, overwhelmed by a
stylized image of a Carabiniere in dress uniform
with mantle, from which 13 blazing fires flare up.
The 13 flames are ideally symbolic of the 13
Battalions which constituted the original Carabinieri
Mobile Brigade.
The metal plate symbolizes the “security wall” put
up by the Carabinieri in defense of peace and
stability in Italy and worldwide.
The many wall crevices represent the numerous
wounds, in terms of human losses, suffered by the
Carabinieri throughout their history.

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