Guardia (Italian and Spanish, 'guard') may refer to:

People

Guardia (surname) Guardia is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Gloria Guardia (1940–2019), Panamanian novelist * Guillermo Guardia (born 1960), Costa Rican footballer * Jaime Guardia (1933–2018), Peruvian singer *Maribel Guardia (born 1959), ...

, including a list of people with the name * Rafael Ángel Calderón Guardia (1900–1970), Costa Rican politician *

Francisco Calderón Guardia Francisco Calderón Guardia (13 June 1906 – 17 July 1977) was a Costa Rican politician. Guardia was a member of the influential Calderón-Guardia family, born in San Jose, the son of Rafael Ángel Calderón Muñoz and Ana Maria Guardia Mora ...

(1906–1977), Costa Rican politician

Places

Argentina

Guardia Mitre Guardia Mitre is a village and municipality in the Province of Río Negro in Argentina. It was founded in 1862. Between 1881 and 1946 it was known as Coronel Pringles. It's the exact opposite point of the earth to Yaoziyu, China China, ...

, a municipality in Rio Negro Province

Italy

Guardia Lombardi Guardia Lombardi (), known as ''La Uàrdia'' () in the Irpinian dialect, is a small town and ''comune'' in the Province of Avellino in Campania, Italy. At an elevation of , it is located in Irpinia in the Apennine Mountains of Southern Italy. I ...

, a municipality in the Province of Avellino *

Guardia Perticara Guardia Perticara is a town and ''comune The (; plural: ) is a local administrative division of Italy, roughly equivalent to a township or municipality. It is the third-level administrative division of Italy, after regions ('' regioni'') a ...

, a municipality in the Province of Potenza * Guardia Piemontese, a municipality in the Province of Cosenza *

Guardia Sanframondi Guardia Sanframondi is a town and ''comune'' in the Province of Benevento, in Campania region, in Italy. It is best known for its wine production, the wine festival ''Vinalia'' and for its Christian penitential rite held every seven years. Geogr ...

, a municipality in the Province of Benevento *

Villa Guardia Villa Guardia ( Brianzöö: ) is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Province of Como in the Italian region Lombardy, located about northwest of Milan and about southwest of Como. Villa Guardia borders the following municipalities: Bulgarograss ...

, a municipality in the Province of Como

Police and military forces

Cuerpo Guardia de Infantería The Cuerpo Guardia de Infantería (''Infantry Guard Corps'', CGI) is the official denomination of all police riot control services of Argentina. Both federal and provincial law enforcement agencies have at least one. The CGI are small, quick r ...

, an Argentinian police force * Guardia Civil, the Spanish gendarmerie *

Costa Rican Civil Guard Civil Guard (Spanish: ''Guardia Civil'') of Costa Rica was a gendarmerie type force responsible for both limited national defense and internal security missions. The Guardia Civil was the largest branch of the Fuerza Pública (Public Force) and wa ...

, a former gendarmerie * Civil Guard (Peru), a gendarmery *

Guardia de Asalto The Cuerpo de Seguridad y Asalto ( en, Security and Assault Corps) was the heavy reserve force of the blue-uniformed urban police force of Spain during the Spanish Second Republic. The Assault Guards were special police and paramilitary units cr ...

, the urban police force of Spain during the Second Republic * Guardia di Finanza, an Italian police force *

Guardia di Rocca The Sammarinese Armed Forces ( it, Forze Armate Sammarinesi) refers to the national military defence forces of the Republic of San Marino. It is one of the smallest military forces in the world, with its different branches having varied functions ...

, in San Marino *

National Guard (El Salvador) The National Guard ( es, Guardia Nacional) was the national gendarmerie of El Salvador. The National Guard of El Salvador was founded in 1912 by President Dr. Manuel Enrique Araujo as a branch of the Salvadoran Army for policing rural areas. Th ...

, a former gendarmerie * National Guard (Nicaragua), a Nicaraguan former militia * Venezuelan National Guard, of the National Armed Forces of Venezuela *

National Republican Guard (Italy) The Italian National Republican Guard (''Guardia Nazionale Repubblicana'', or GNR) was a gendarmerie force of the Italian Social Republic created by decree on December 8, 1943, replacing the Carabinieri and the National Security Volunteer Mili ...

, a former gendarmerie *

Republican Guard (Peru) The Republican Guard of Peru ( es, Guardia Republicana del Perú) was a branch of the Peruvian National Gendarmerie responsible for providing security to the headquarters of public institutions and penitentiary establishments, as well as border con ...

, a security force *

Noble Guard The Noble Guard ( it, Guardia Nobile) was one of the household guard units serving the Pope, and formed part of the military in Vatican City. It was formed by Pope Pius VII in 1801 as a regiment of heavy cavalry. Conceived as the Pope's personal ...

, a Vatican former guard unit *

Guardia Rural In Mexico, the term ''Rurales'' (Spanish language, Spanish) is used in respect of two armed government forces. The historic Guardia Rural ('Rural Guard') was a rural mounted police force, founded by President Benito Juárez in 1861 and expanded ...

, a former Mexican force

Other uses

Gvardia Dushanbe Guardia Dushanbe is a football club based in Dushanbe, the capital of Tajikistan Tajikistan (, ; tg, Тоҷикистон, Tojikiston; russian: Таджикистан, Tadzhikistan), officially the Republic of Tajikistan ( tg, Ҷумҳу� ...

, a Tajikistan football club *

Guardia Republicana Guardia Republicana is a Peruvian football club, playing in the city of Lima. The club were founded 1981 and play in the Copa Perú which is the third division of the Peruvian league. History The club was 1985, 1987, and 1995 Segunda División ...