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On March 2, 2020, the President of the Republic of Moldova signed Decree no.1475- VIII regarding the registration of some territorial symbols of Chișinău municipality. By this act, the urban signs, approved by the Decision of the Chișinău Municipal Council no. 5/2 of December 19, 2019, were registered in the General Armorial of the Republic of Moldova: the coat of arms and the flag of Chișinău municipality and the coats of arms and flags of the Botanica, Buiucani, Centru, Ciocana and Râșcani sectors. The new municipal coat of arms is a “large coat of arms”, which preserves as a “small coat of arms” the old coat of arms from 1930, resumed in use in 1990 in another graphic version, completed them with supporters (two water towers), motto (“By ourselves”) and increases the tincture of the municipal crown from Argent to Or. The new municipal flag, in which the white field predominates, represents an adjusted version of the flag in unofficial use since 1998. The coats of arms and flags of the sectors of Chișinău municipality represent a premiere for the urban symbols of the Republic of Moldova. They have been developed in the complex, are similar in structure and introduce, in addition to the specific emblem, different custom colours for each sector

In the age of living heraldry, the notion of „heraldic art” covered the profession of the herald in all its manifestations related to coats of arms. Later, two other meanings were added: „the art of composing a coat of arms” and „the art of drawing a coat of arms”. After explaining the three meanings, the author follows the evolution of heraldry as an applied art in Europe, the limits imposed on artistic creation by the science of heraldry, the material on which the concrete image is made and the artist’s working tools. With reference to the Romanian heraldic art, it is shown that it was present in the Romanian space since the origins of Romanian States and was synchronized with the models and the fashion of the time from the countries with organized heraldic institutions, with which the Romanians had political, economic or cultural contacts. After the state unification of the Romanians, the premises for the appearance of a national school of heraldry were created: first on the scientific segment, and from the second half of the twentieth century on the artistic one.