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

People

* Guardia (surname), including a list of people with the name *

Rafael Ángel Calderón Guardia Rafael Ángel Calderón Guardia (March 8, 1900 – June 9, 1970) was a Costa Rican medical doctor and politician, who served as President from 1940 to 1944. Early life Rafael Angel Calderón Guardia was born on 8 March 1900 in San José. In his ...

(1900–1970), Costa Rican politician * Francisco Calderón Guardia (1906–1977), Costa Rican politician

Places

Argentina

* Guardia Mitre, 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, a municipality in the Province of Potenza *

Guardia Piemontese Guardia Piemontese ( Occitan: ''La Gàrdia'') is a town and ''comune'' in the province of Cosenza and the region of Calabria in southern Italy. Location and language Guardia Piemontese is located about 55 km northwest of Cosenza on th ...

, 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, an Argentinian police force *

Guardia Civil The Civil Guard ( es, Guardia Civil, link=no; ) is the oldest law enforcement agency in Spain and is one of two national police forces. As a national gendarmerie force, it is military in nature and is responsible for civil policing under the au ...

, the Spanish gendarmerie * Costa Rican Civil Guard, a former gendarmerie *

Civil Guard (Peru) , mottotranslated = Honor is its badge , formedyear = 1873 , formedmonthday = December 31 , preceding1 = , dissolved = December 6, 1988) until its complete incorporation to the National Police of Peru in 1991. , superseding ...

, 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 The ''Guardia di Finanza'' (G. di F. or GdF) () (English: literal: ''Guard of Finance'', paraphrased: ''Financial Police'' or ''Financial Guard'') is an Italian law enforcement agency under the authority of the Minister of Economy and Finance. ...

, 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 function ...

, in San Marino * National Guard (El Salvador), a former gendarmerie *

National Guard (Nicaragua) The National Guard ( es, link=no, Guardia Nacional, otherwise known as ) was a militia and a gendarmerie created in 1925 during the occupation of Nicaragua by the United States. It became notorious for human rights abuses and corruption under t ...

, a Nicaraguan former militia *

Venezuelan National Guard The Bolivarian National Guard of Venezuela ( es, Guardia Nacional Bolivariana de Venezuela - GNB), is one of the four components of the National Armed Forces of Venezuela. The national guard can serve as gendarmerie, perform civil defense roles, ...

, 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, a Vatican former guard unit * Guardia Rural, a former Mexican force

Other uses