Vertically tierced: blue next to the flagpole, red in the centre with the coat of arms, and yellow on the free side.
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It is a rectangular field with a 2:3 ratio, divided into three vertical stripes, the central one twice as wide as the others. Next to the flagpole it is blue, in the centre red with the municipal coat of arms, and on the fly side yellow.
Each element and how many of the 1,390 flags in the catalogue carry it. In yellow, the rarest.
Every date in its story, at a glance.
Its coat of arms was approved by Resolution of 2 July 1997
The flag came two years later, by the Resolution of 3 September 1999
How it was born, how it has changed and what it means.
The flag of Albatera is a vertical tierce in which the central stripe, the red one, is twice as wide as the others. The coat of arms goes right in the middle of that wide stripe.
Albatera is a municipality in Baix Segura, in the province of Alicante. Its coat of arms was approved by Resolution of 2 July 1997, of the conseller de Presidència, published in DOGV number 3,077. The flag came two years later, by the Resolution of 3 September 1999, of the conseller de Justícia i Administracions Públiques, published in DOGV number 3,614.
The coat of arms brings three things: the roc, the cornette and the scallop shell. The roc and the cornette are the arms of the Rocafull, old lords of the place; the scallop —the shell of Saint Hyacinth— is the sign of Saint James, patron of the town.
It has never changed. It was approved in 1999 and there are no documented later modifications.
Blue
the stripe next to the flagpole.
Red
the central stripe, the widest one.
Yellow
the stripe on the fly side.
Coat of arms in the centre
the municipal arms.
Roc and cornette
the Rocafull, old lords of Albatera.
Scallop
Saint James, patron of the town.
The coat of arms carries a roc —a bird of the genus of the raptors— and a cornette, both in gold. They are the arms of the Rocafull, who were lords of Albatera. It is a surname with an African root in a town that was on the frontier of the Kingdom of Murcia.
The field is tierced vertically, but the central stripe —the red one, the one carrying the coat of arms—is twice as wide. It is a device for giving room to the arms without enlarging the rest of the design.
The coat of arms was approved in July 1997 and the flag in September 1999. The flag of Albatera is the newest version of a coat of arms that already had two years when it finally got cloth.
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