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Flag of Alfondeguilla

Upper half blue and lower half white, with the castle of Castro in yellow over black rocks in the centre.

Flag of Alfondeguilla
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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
202429 April 2024 · 2 years ago
Colours
  • blue
  • white
  • yellow
  • black
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 field divided diagonally

  2. 1

    The castle

  3. 2

    The pennant

How it is described

The flag in the words of vexillology and heraldry.

Vexillological description

It is a rectangular field with a 2:3 ratio, divided horizontally in half. The upper half is blue; the lower one white. In the centre there is a yellow castle, with its keep, masoned and outlined in black, over rocks of the same colour, and with a white flag on the tower.

Field (the cloth)
two equal horizontal stripes.
Upper stripe
blue.
Lower stripe
white.
Castle
yellow, with keep, masoned and outlined in black.
Rocks
of the same black.
Castle’s flag
white, on the tower.

It is a rectangular field —the field is the cloth of the flag— with a 2:3 ratio, divided diagonally in half: blue the upper triangle, white the lower one. In the centre goes the yellow castle of the coat of arms.

Diagonal
the line rises from the lower corner of the flagpole —the pole it is hoisted on— to the upper one of the fly side, the free edge.
Castle
yellow, with the larger tower and the stone joints in black.
Rocks
the yellow rocks on which the castle rests.
Small flag
a white banner at the top of the tower.
No border
it carries no border or any other figure.

What it carries

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

Its history in dates

Every date in its story, at a glance.

  1. 2002

    Its coat of arms was approved by the Resolution of 18 October 2002

  2. 2024

    The flag is from 2024

The full story

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

The flag of Alfondeguilla is a field divided into two halves, blue and white, with the castle of Castro in the centre over a mound of black rocks. The flag is from 2024; the coat of arms, from 2002.

How it came about

Alfondeguilla is a municipality in Vall d’Albaida, in the province of Valencia. Its coat of arms was approved by the Resolution of 18 October 2002, of the conseller de Justícia i Administracions Públiques, published in DOGV number 4,390. The flag came twenty-two years later, by the Resolution of 19 April 2024, of the Presidència of the Generalitat, published in the DOGV.

The coat of arms refers to the old castle of Castro, on a hill three kilometres from the town, with its keep tower. It is the central element of the flag.

How it has changed

It has never changed. The flag was approved in 2024, the most recent one I have found.

What it means

  • Blue

    the upper half.

  • White

    the lower half.

  • Yellow castle

    the castle of Castro, on a hill three kilometres from the town.

  • Keep

    the main tower of the castle, with its crenellated detail.

  • Black rocks

    the hill on which the castle stands.

  • White flag on the tower

    the pennant over the keep tower.

Fun facts

  1. A seal of 1876 that declares itself from 1600

    The Archivo Histórico Nacional keeps an ink seal of Alfondeguilla from 1876. The seal itself explains its origin: ‘The origin of this seal dates from the year 1600, on account of the Arabs having been driven out in 1597 from the castle called Castro’. The seal therefore claims to be two hundred and seventy-five years old.

  2. The most recent flag

    From 2024. Its coat of arms is from 2002 and the flag had to wait twenty-two years to have legal cloth, one of the longest waits in Vall d’Albaida.

  3. The castle is on its hill, not in the town

    The castle of Castro is three kilometres from Alfondeguilla. The flag places it over black rocks, so the mound becomes part of the image itself: it is not an ornament, it is the real location of the fortress.

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How much have you learnt?

Test what you have read about the flag of Alfondeguilla.

  1. 1. Which one is the flag of Alfondeguilla?

  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: MrPotato1010, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0.

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