Municipality of Vilagrassa (Urgell County, Lleida Province, Catalonia, Spain)

Last modified: 2004-09-24 by santiago dotor
Keywords: vilagrassa | quartered: saltire | triangle: top (blue) | triangle: bottom (blue) | stripes: 18 (yellow-red) | discs: 10 (white) |
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by Blas Delgado
Flag adopted 23 September 1999

• Description

See also:

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

Flag quartered in saltire. Blue top and bottom each with five white discs in the shape of a cross, the discs as wide as 1/12 of the flag's height and separated from one another by 1/36 of the flag's height, centred on each triangle. Yellow hoist and fly each with four vertical red stripes.

The flag is a banner of the arms (blazoned Quarterly per saltire: 1 and 4 Azure five plates crosswise, 2 and 3 Or four pallets Gules). The plates are a traditional local symbol of unknown origin, the yellow-red stripes are a reminder of the jurisdiction of the Kings of Aragon. Flag adopted 23rd September 1999. Source for image and text: Fluvià 2001.

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

Area (km2): 19.9
County: Urgell
Population (2001): 402

Santiago Dotor, 15 January 2002