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Municipality of Vall-llobrega (Baix Empordà County, Girona Province, Catalonia, Spain)

2:3
by Blas Delgado
Flag adopted 14 February 1994

Description

See also:

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

Description

The official description says, "two horizontal fesses [stripes] of equal width green over blue, in the middle a yellow fess". This would give the idea of a thinner middle stripe, but the illustration shows a horizontally striped green-yellow-blue, proportions 1+2+1. Ratio 2:3. Colours from the arms. Flag adopted 14th February 1994. Source for image and text: Fluvià 2001.

The colours on the coat-of-arms are from top to bottom gold-green-(some silver)-blue and the green element is (in my humble opinion) the main one since it represents a valley or vall. I do not quite understand why was the yellow stripe given such relevance on the flag. It gives it quite a national flag look.

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

Area (km2): 5.5
County: Baix Empordà
Population (2001): 438

Santiago Dotor, 26 November 2001