Tarot Cards - Regional

Tarot cards and decks with a strong sense of place, celebrating or entirely featuring a region or locality such as Prague or Paris.

Cornish Tarot The Cornish Tarot - Tarot Kernow in the Cornish language - celebrates the English area of Cornwall, with 78 computer-generated cards featuring images relevant to the area and its legends. Self-published as a limited edition.

Hawaiian Oracle The Hawaiian Oracle has very pretty cards of the animal spirits of Hawaii, drawing on the Hawaiian mythology and traditions. There are 36 cards and a 144-page guidebook with explanations.

Icelandic Tarot The Icelandic Tarot is an interesting black and white tarot deck. The art is simple and somewhat abstract, using blocks of solid colour rather than sharp detail. The cards have the titles in English, and short phrases and keywords at the base.

Kalevala Tarot A deck based on the Kalevala, a Finnish national epic, constructed in the nineteenth century and based on rural poems and songs. The card art of the Kalevala Tarot is brightly coloured in strong primaries.

LiteraTarot America The LiteraTarot decks are the brain-child of the Italian Museo dei Tarocchi. In 2008 the theme of their yearly collaborative decks was the great classics of literature, and a deck was put together in each of the continents. The American deck was hosted by Arnell Ando.

Sedona Vortex Tarot The Sedona Vortex Tarot has drawn its inspiration, in imagery and titling, from the Sedona area in Arizona. The art is a colourful collage of illustrations, photographs and scenery.

Tarocco Storico del Palio di Pistoia Another locality-based Italian tarot from Amerigo Folchi, celebrating the city of Pistoia and its historical horse-race, the Palio. The Tarocco Storico del Palio di Pistoia deck comes in two sizes - 48 cards (majors and court cards) and the full 78 card deck.

Tarocco Storico della Citta Di Ferrara An amazing limited edition Italian Tarot deck, with warmly coloured and finely detailed art by Amerigo Folchi. The Tarocco Storico della Citta Di Ferrara is titled in both Italian and English.

Tarot de Gruyeres Le Tarot de Gruyeres is an unusual black and white, majors-only Tarot, created for a Swiss Tarot exhibition in 1993. Gruyeres is a small village in Switzerland, home to the museum of artist H. R. Giger, and the card imagery in this deck is similarly detailed and surreal.

Tarot des Regions de France Tarot des Regions de France is a French gaming deck illustrated with scenes of typical peasant life in the last century on the trump cards. The court cards have traditional costumes from the Provence, Alsace, Brittany and Burgundy areas, and the suits are standard playing cards.

Tarot of Paris Awe-inspiring collages created from thousands of images of Paris's classic and modern art and architecture. The photographs in the Tarot of Paris are original and were taken by the artist over a twenty year period.

Tarot of Prague The Tarot of Prague is a very beautiful Tarot, composed of collaged photographs of Prague's art and architecture. Suitable for readings, and for beginners, the Tarot of Prague is now a classic, and is highly recommended.

Tarot of the Black Mountain The Tarot of the Black Mountain is a majors-only deck based on the landscape, people, myths, and history of Montenegro, and is being created to accompany a book of short stories by Lena Ruth Stefanovic. From Emily Carding, creator of the Tarot of the Sidhe.

Trump L'Oeil: Tarot of Portmeirion Trump L'Oeil: Tarot of Portmeirion presents the Tarot archetypes through photographs of Portmeirion, a picturesque, intentionally created, coastal Welsh village. The 78 cards feature sculpture, paintings, and architecture from different styles and eras.

Venetian Historical Tarot The Venetian Historical Tarot is a majors-only Italian Tarot set, with detailed and fanciful images on its rectangular cards; illustrations of the city of Venice in the Renaissance and later times.

Venice Tarot The Venice Tarot pays homage to one of the most fascinating cities in the world, a city of lovers, of the Carnivale, of masks and a little magic, in its heyday during the 16th to 18th century. The majors are linked to Venetian historical characters, and the majors are fully illustrated, some in a Rider-Waite style, others unique to this deck.