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Flag of Alàs i Cerc

Green with a black church, yellow with an oak leaf: each half of the flag of Alàs i Cerc represents one of the two towns.

Flag of Alàs i Cerc
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The flag, in figures

Every fact about the flag, each with what it means.

Proportions
2:33 wide for every 2 high. 989 flags in the catalogue share it.
Properties
Normal flagFIAV symbol: the form of the flag.
Use
CivilFIAV symbol: who may fly the flag.
Adopted
200627 September 2006 · 20 years ago
Colours
  • white
  • black
  • green
  • yellow
Reference shades: the official one may vary slightly.
Coat of arms
YesIt carries the coat of arms on the cloth.
12

Take a closer look

  1. The two halves

  2. 1

    The church

  3. 2

    The oak

How it is described

The flag in the words of vexillology and heraldry.

Vexillological description

It is a rectangular field (the field is the cloth of the flag) with a 2:3 ratio divided into two equal vertical halves: dark green on the left and yellow on the right.

Stripes
vertical means from top to bottom; the green one takes the flagpole side, the pole it is hoisted on, and the yellow one, the fly, the free edge.
Church
in the green half, a black church centred, two fifths wide and four fifths of the height of the field.
Oak
in the yellow half, a clover of dark green oak leaves with two acorns, centred.
No coat of arms
it carries no coat of arms on top nor any border.

What it carries

Each element and how many of the 1,390 flags in the catalogue carry it. In yellow, the rarest.

The full story

How it was born, how it has changed and what it means.

The flag of Alàs i Cerc is a field divided into two vertical halves: dark green next to the flagpole and yellow on the fly side. In the green half there is a black church; in the yellow one, a clover of oak leaves with two acorns.

How it came about

Alàs i Cerc is a municipality in Pallars Sobirà, in the province of Lleida, in the comarca of Alt Urgell. It is formed by two towns, Alàs de Civís and Cercs, and its flag reflects that: each half represents one of them.

The flag was approved on 27 September 2006.

How it has changed

It has never changed. It was approved in 2006 and there are no documented later modifications.

What it means

  • Dark green

    the half next to the flagpole, with the church.

  • Yellow

    the fly half, with the oak.

  • Church

    black, centred in the green half, two fifths wide and four fifths of the height of the field.

  • Oak

    in the yellow half, a clover of dark green oak leaves with two acorns.

Fun facts

  1. Two towns, two halves

    Alàs i Cerc was born from the union of Alàs de Civís and Cercs. The flag says so without words: each vertical half carries the symbol of one of the two towns. The black church belongs to Alàs; the oak with acorns, to Cercs.

  2. The church in black on green

    The church is the only black figure on the whole flag, over the dark green field. It is the strangest part of the flag: a single-colour figure on a field of another, with no other ornaments.

  3. The oak, drawn with acorns

    The symbol of Cercs is not a whole tree but a clover of oak leaves with two acorns. The acorns are what identifies the figure: without them it would be a generic plant symbol.

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  4. 4. In which year was the current flag adopted?

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Credits

Flag image: Albert Mestre, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0.

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