White upper half with three green orange trees and three of yellow, and red lower half with the castle of the casa-palau.
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It is a rectangular field with a 2:3 ratio, divided horizontally in half. The upper half is white or pearl grey, with three orange trees, green with the fruit in yellow. The lower half is red, with a yellow castle, lit and masoned in black.
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Its coat of arms was approved by Resolution of 28 May 1999
The flag came sixteen years later, by the Resolution of 21 December 2015, of the Presidència…
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The flag of Albalat dels Tarongers is a parted field: above, the orange trees of its name; below, a castle. The three orange trees and the two equal halves say ‘Albalat of the orange trees’ with every letter.
Albalat dels Tarongers is a municipality in Ribera Alta, in the province of Valencia. Its coat of arms was approved by Resolution of 28 May 1999, of the conseller de Presidència, published in DOGV number 3,549. The flag came sixteen years later, by the Resolution of 21 December 2015, of the Presidència of the Generalitat, published in DOCV number 7,699.
The orange trees are a traditional canting element alluding to the name of the locality. The castle refers to the casa-palau that the municipality keeps, an example of Valencian Gothic civil architecture.
It has never changed. It was approved in 2015 and there are no documented later modifications.
White
the upper half, where the orange trees are.
Three green orange trees with yellow fruit
the canting element, the name of the town.
Red
the lower half.
Yellow castle masoned in black
the Gothic casa-palau of the municipality.
Not six: sixteen. The coat of arms is from 1999 and the flag from 2015. It is one of the longest gaps in Ribera Alta, and it explains why so many Valencian flags still look like a coat of arms with an old piece of cloth.
The design is symmetrical on purpose: three orange trees in the white half and a castle in the red one, each half with a single figure. The orange trees appear whole —trunk, crown and fruit— because the canting element has to read from a distance.
The castle on the coat of arms is not a military fortress but the casa-palau the municipality keeps: Valencian Gothic civil architecture, with its windows and its shields. It is inhabited heritage, not a ruin.
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Flag image: Macondo, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0.
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