Municipality of Porqueres (Pla de l'Estany County, Girona Province, Catalonia, Spain)

Last modified: 2004-10-02 by santiago dotor
Keywords: porqueres | castle (green) | stripes: 6 (white-red) | crozier (blue) |
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by Blas Delgado
Flag adopted

• Description

See also:

• Girona Province (Catalonia, Spain)
• Catalonia (Cataluña / Catalunya, Spain)
• Spain

Horizontally striped flag white-red-white-red-white-red, on its centre a green castle with open gate and windows, as high as 1/3 of the flag's height and occupying all stripes except the top one. Centred on the top two stripes, a blue vertical abbot's crozier, separated 1/18 [of the flag's height] from the top [of the castle or of the flag? maybe both?].

The flag is a banner of the arms (blazoned barry of six Argent and Gules a castle ajouré Vert surmounted by a crozier Azure). The castle is that of Porqueres, where the municipality originated; the stripes are the arms of the Porqueres-Santapau, primitive lords of the municipality; and the crozier represents the jurisdiction of the abbots of Banyoles. Flag adopted 29th November 1991. Source for image and text: Fluvià 2001.

Some additional information, extracted from this webpage of the Statistics Institute of Catalonia (Idescat):

Area (km2): 33.6
County: Pla de l'Estany
Population (2001): 3,675

Santiago Dotor, 27 September 2004

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