Flag of Ador

The flag of Ador is a field with three equal vertical stripes: red next to the flagpole, white in the centre and green on the fly side. The municipal coat of arms goes in the white stripe.

How it came about

Ador is a municipality in the province of Valencia, in the comarca of Safor. Its flag was approved on 29 June 1992.

The three stripes summarise the history of the town: the Muslim farmhouse, the Roman town and the medieval castle.

How it has changed

It has never changed. It was approved in 1992 and there are no documented later modifications.

What it means

• Red stripe

  next to the flagpole, the oldest one.

• White stripe

  in the centre, with the municipal coat of arms.

• Green stripe

  on the fly side.

• Coat of arms

  Iberian in shape and truncated. In the first quarter, two columns and a hamlet. In the second, a castle over waves.

Fun facts

1. Three colours, three eras

   The flag of Ador is a historical summary in three bands: the Muslim farmhouse, the Roman town and the castle. It is a kind of flag-chronology, each stripe standing for a different moment in the history of the town.

2. The coat of arms is Iberian and truncated

   The shape of the coat of arms is not the usual Spanish heraldry: it is Iberian and truncated. That shape —cut diagonally— is traditional in the País Valencià and gives the arms an archaic air that sets them apart from those of municipalities elsewhere in Spain.

3. The coat of arms on the central stripe

   The coat of arms goes on the white stripe, in the centre. It is the most usual solution: the arms are placed in the centre of the field and the white gives them a neutral background on which the lines read well.

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