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Flag of Albalate del Arzobispo

Blue with a red stripe next to the flagpole, a yellow lion with a fleur-de-lis and three triangles: the flag of Albalate del Arzobispo dates from 2002.

Flag of Albalate del Arzobispo
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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
200211 July 2002 · 24 years ago
Colours
  • Red
  • Blue
  • Yellow
Reference shades: the official one may vary slightly.
Coat of arms
YesIt carries the coat of arms on the cloth.
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Take a closer look

  1. The blue cloth

  2. 1

    The red quarter

  3. 2

    The lion

  4. 3

    The three triangles

  5. 4

    The fleur-de-lis

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 in blue, with the quarter on the flagpole side in red. The flagpole is the pole it is hoisted on.

Red stripe
it takes up the quarter of the field against the flagpole and runs from top to bottom.
Three triangles
they come out of that stripe towards the fly —the free side—; the middle one is the longest and ends in the shape of a fleur-de-lis.
Lion
yellow, upright and centred on the red stripe, with a fleur-de-lis on the front paw.
No coat of arms
it carries no drawn 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 Albalate del Arzobispo is a blue field with the quarter next to the flagpole in red. From that stripe three triangles run towards the fly side, and a yellow lion with a fleur-de-lis stays inside the red area.

How it came about

Albalate del Arzobispo is a municipality in the province of Toledo, in Castilla-La Mancha, in the plain of La Mancha. Its flag was approved on 11 July 2002.

The design transfers to the cloth the pieces of the coat of arms, but places them so that the red occupies a vertical stripe at the flagpole and the triangles point to the free side. It is an asymmetric composition: the visual weight is on the pole, not in the centre.

How it has changed

It has never changed. It was approved in 2002 and there are no documented later modifications.

What it means

  • Blue

    the background of the field, three quarters of it.

  • Red stripe

    the quarter of the field against the flagpole, from top to bottom.

  • Three triangles

    they come out of the red stripe towards the fly side. The middle one is the longest and ends in a fleur-de-lis.

  • Lion

    yellow, upright and centred on the red stripe, with a fleur-de-lis on the front paw.

Fun facts

  1. The coat of arms without a coat of arms

    Albalate del Arzobispo has no coat of arms: its figures —the lion, the fleur-de-lis, the tower— are drawn directly on the field. The three triangles serve as a geometric support and the lion lives inside the red stripe. It is a flag that replaces the shield with the composition.

  2. Deliberate asymmetry

    Almost all flags are symmetric with respect to the flagpole. This one concentrates the colour on the pole side and leaves the fly in blue, with the triangles as the only transition. The eye reads the flag from the pole outwards, not the other way round.

  3. The fleur-de-lis twice

    The fleur-de-lis appears twice: as the finial of the middle triangle and as an ornament on the lion’s front paw. It is the most repeated element and the one that gives its name to the kind of flower used in the design.

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Test what you have read about the flag of Albalate del Arzobispo.

  1. 1. Which one is the flag of Albalate del Arzobispo?

  2. 2. Which of these elements appears on the flag?

  3. 3. What are the proportions (height:width) of the flag?

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

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Credits

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

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