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 Maribel G ...

, 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 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 Río Negro Province of Argentina Argentina, officially the Argentine Republic, is a country in the southern half of South America. It covers an area of , making it the List of South Ameri ...

, 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. It h ...

, a municipality in the Province of Avellino *

Guardia Perticara Guardia Perticara is a town and ''comune'' in the province of Potenza, in the Southern Italian region of Basilicata. It has 519 people. It is one of I Borghi più belli d'Italia () is a non-profit private association of small Italian towns o ...

, 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 o ...

, 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 A (; : , ) is an administrative division of Italy, roughly equivalent to a township or municipality. It is the third-level administrative division of Italy, after regions () and provinces (). The ...

, 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 re ...

, an Argentinian police force *

Guardia Civil The Civil Guard (; ) is one of the two national law enforcement agencies of Spain. As a national gendarmerie, it is military in nature and is responsible for civil policing under the authority of both the Ministry of the Interior and the Minis ...

, 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) The Civil Guard (; ) was the main preventive police force of Peru until its dissolution in 1988. As a national gendarmerie force, it was responsible for civil Police, policing under the authority of the Ministry of the Interior (Peru), Ministry o ...

, a gendarmery *

Guardia de Asalto The Assault Guards, officially known as the Security and Assault Corps ( Spanish; Cuerpo de Seguridad y Asalto), were a gendarmerie and reserve force of the blue-uniformed urban police force of Spain under the Second Spanish Republic. The Assaul ...

, the urban police force of Spain during the Second Republic *

Guardia di Finanza The Guardia di Finanza (; G. di F. or GdF; or ) is an Italian militarised law enforcement agency under the Ministry of Economy and Finance (Italy), Ministry of Economy and Finance, instead of the Ministry of Defence (Italy), Ministry of Defence ...

, an Italian police force * Guardia di Rocca, in San Marino *

National Guard (El Salvador) The National Guard () 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. The National Guard was r ...

, a former gendarmerie *

National Guard (Nicaragua) The Nicaraguan National Guard (, otherwise known as ) was a militia and a gendarmerie created in 1925 during the United States occupation of Nicaragua, occupation of Nicaragua by the United States. It became notorious for human rights abuses and ...

, a Nicaraguan former militia *

Venezuelan National Guard The Bolivarian National Guard of Venezuela ( - GNB), is a gendarmerie component of the National Bolivarian Armed Forces of Venezuela, National Armed Forces of Venezuela. The national guard can serve as gendarmerie, perform civil defense roles, or ...

, of the National Armed Forces of Venezuela *

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

, a former gendarmerie *

Republican Guard (Peru) The Republican Guard of Peru () 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 control. Formation The Republican Gu ...

, a security force *

Noble Guard The Noble Guard () 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, and abolished in 1970 by Pope Paul VI following Vat ...

, a Vatican former guard unit *

Guardia Rural In Mexico, the term ''Rurales'' (Spanish) is used to refer to 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 by President Porfir ...

, a former Mexican force

Other uses

Gvardia Dushanbe Guardia Dushanbe is a football club based in Dushanbe, the capital of Tajikistan Tajikistan, officially the Republic of Tajikistan, is a landlocked country in Central Asia. Dushanbe is the capital city, capital and most populous city. Tajikista ...

, a Tajikistan football club *

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

, a Peruvian football club

People

Places

Argentina

Italy

Police and military forces

Other uses

See also