Yellow with two blue fesses of 1/10 at the upper and lower edges and the municipal coat of arms in the centre.
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It is a rectangular field with a 2:3 ratio, yellow. It carries two blue stripes at the upper and lower edges, each one a tenth of the width of the field. The municipal coat of arms is laid over the centre, in its colours.
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.
2007: the council approved the flag proposal, on 27 March
2008: a coat of arms project was presented following Decree 116/1994 of the Valencian Government
2021: after several reports with that council
2022: the Valencian Generalitat approved the coat of arms, on 28 April
How it was born, how it has changed and what it means.
Alboraig is a municipality in the Comtat, in the province of Valencia. The process is well documented:
2007
the council approved the flag proposal, on 27 March.
2008
a coat of arms project was presented following Decree 116/1994 of the Valencian Government. The three golden maraes were replaced by a carob tree, the legend was removed and the colour of the tower was changed. That project was not approved by the Consell Tècnic d’Heràldica i Vexil·lologia.
2021
after several reports with that council, the plenary approved a proposal that incorporated its recommendations.
2022
the Valencian Generalitat approved the coat of arms, on 28 April.
Alboraig had at least three coats of arms in use: one before 2008, another between 2008 and 2021, and the official one of 2022. The flag of 2007 was designed over a coat of arms that took another fourteen years to be legalised.
Yellow
the colour of the field.
Two blue stripes of 1/10
the upper and lower edges.
Coat of arms in the centre
the municipal arms, laid over the stripes.
In the current coat of arms, the tower of the first quarter comes from the meaning of the place name —Alboraij, ‘watchtower’—; the cross of Saint James, from the Order of Montesa and because Saint James is the patron of the town; and the three maraes were the arms of the Berenguer Mercader. The 2008 project replaced the maraes with the carob tree and removed the legend, an honour granted by King James II.
The Archivo Histórico Nacional keeps the print of a seal of the Mayor’s office from 1877. It is not the coat of arms of the town: it is that of the province, which was that of the old Kingdom of Valencia, ‘or, four pales gules’. It was the usual way of representing a mayor’s office with no arms of its own.
The cloth has flown since 2007; the arms it carries in the centre were not made legal until 2022. It is a reminder that in the País Valencià the flag and the coat of arms are legalised separately, and not always at the same time.
The Consell Tècnic d’Heràldica i Vexil·lologia rejected the 2008 project and forced a revision of the 2021 one. That filter is what guarantees that arms are not invented: between 2008 and 2021 Alboraig used a coat of arms with no official approval.
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Flag image: Macondo, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0.
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