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. It h ...

, 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 o ...

, a municipality in the Province of Cosenza * Guardia Sanframondi, 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, 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), 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), a security force * Noble Guard, 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