Municipality of Vilabertran (Alt Empordà County, Girona Province, Catalonia, Spain)

Last modified: 2004-09-24 by santiago dotor
Keywords: vilabertran | cross: scandinavian (white) | cross: formy (white) | discs: 5 (red) |
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by Blas Delgado
Flag adopted 29 January 1990

• Description

See also:

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

Blue flag with a white scandinavian cross formy with concave sides. The ends of the cross touch the flag's sides, and its vertical axis is offset from the hoist 1/3 of the flag's length. Five red discs, one on the centre and each end of the cross.

The flag is a rotated banner of the arms (blazoned Azure, a latin cross formy Argent, debruised by five torteaux [or roundels Gules]). The cross represents the famous Cross of Vilabertran, a 14th century jewelry masterpiece. Flag adopted 29th January 1990. Source for image and text: Fluvià 2001.

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

Area (km2): 2.3
County: Alt Empordà
Population (2001): 783

Santiago Dotor, 15 January 2002

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