Alternating black and white vertical stripes, with a border: the vair of the Martínez de Vera, lords of the town.
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It is a rectangular field with a 2:3 ratio, formed by equal vertical stripes of black and white alternating, and surrounded by a border in the same pearl grey white as the light stripes.
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The flag of Aigües is a field of ten equal vertical stripes, five black and five white alternating, surrounded by a border in the same pearl grey white as the light stripes.
Aigües is a municipality in the province of Alicante, in the comarca of Safor. Its flag was approved on 15 February 2011.
The field repeats the vair of the Martínez de Vera, lords of the town. The vair is a heraldic pattern formed by rows of bell-shaped pieces of colour, and here it is translated into alternating vertical stripes.
It has never changed. It was approved in 2011 and there are no documented later modifications.
Vertical stripes
ten, of equal width. Five black and five white, alternating.
Border
a stripe in the same pearl grey white as the light stripes, on the four sides.
Origin
the vair of the Martínez de Vera, lords of Aigües.
The vair is a pattern of old heraldry formed by rows of silver and blue bells. Aigües carries it onto the cloth as ten alternating vertical stripes. It is the same geometric figure, but translated into something so plain: what was a texture of bells on the coat of arms is a plain stripe on the flag.
The border is the same pearl grey white as the five light stripes. It does not stand out by colour but by being the frame: it sets the whole apart from the edges and makes the cloth read as a rectangle inside another.
The number is counted: five black and five white. A striped design needs an even number of stripes to close, and the description fixes it so that the flag cannot be built in two different ways.
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Flag image: Mutxamel, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 3.0.
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