Municipality of Prades (Baix Camp, Tarragona Province, Catalonia, Spain)

Last modified: 2004-10-02 by santiago dotor
Keywords: prades | stripes: 9 (yellow-red) | labels: 2 (red) | fleurs-de-lis: 12 (yellow) | fleurs-de-lis: semy (yellow) |
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by Blas Delgado
Flag adopted 27 October 2000

• Description

See also:

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

Flag quartered saltirewise, the top and bottom triangles showing nine stripes yellow-red-etc. (YRYRYRYRY), the hoist and fly triangles blue strewn with yellow fleurs-de-lys each as high as 3/16 of the flag's height and as wide as 1/12 of the flag's length, six of them [on each triangle] complete and fully visible. On the top part of the hoist and fly triangles, a red [heraldic] label of three points, as wide as 3/128 of the flag's height and as long as 43/192 of the flag's length, separated from the top 1/4 [of the flag's height] and from the hoist and fly, respectively, 1/96 [of the flag's length].

The flag is a banner of the arms (blazoned per saltire Or four pallets Gules and Azure semy-de-lys Or in chief a label of three points Gules). Arms of the counts of Prades, belonging to the House of Barcelona: the top and bottom quarters for the counts of Barcelona and the side quarters for the Anjou of Naples. Flag adopted 27th October 2000. Source for image and text: Fluvià 2001.

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

Area (km2): 32.6
County: Baix Camp
Population (2001): 561

Santiago Dotor, 24 September 2004