  A Higgs description for the QCD vacuum in the limit of two quark flavors is
proposed. Complete ``spontaneous breaking'' of color symmetry is realized by
condensation of an adjoint quark-antiquark and a quark-quark pair. The vacuum
is invariant under isospin symmetry applying color and flavor transformations
simultaneously. All elementary excitations acquire integral charges. The
dressed microscopic quark and gluon degrees of freedom can be identified with
the macroscopic baryon and vector meson degrees of freedom. In addition to the
nucleons we find soliton--type fermions with integer isospin. Their presence
provides an important test accessible to lattice QCD simulations.
