Divided into two halves: at the flagpole, a chequerboard of gold squares and blue-and-white vair; on the fly side, green with a silver castle.
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The flag of Alfoz do Castrodouro is a field divided into two vertical halves: at the flagpole a chequerboard of gold squares and vair, and on the fly side a green field with a silver castle.
Alfoz do Castrodouro is a municipality in the province of Lugo, in Galicia, in the comarca of Terra Chá. Its flag dates from 25 May 2022.
The chequerboard of the flagpole half alternates two kinds of square: some are plain yellow and others are formed by drops of blue and white, the vair pattern. It is a pattern of the House of Braganza, the Portuguese dynasty.
No earlier versions are documented.
Chequerboard
on the flagpole half, alternating equal squares.
Yellow squares
plain, with no drawing.
Vair squares
formed by drops of blue and white.
Green
the field of the fly half.
Castle
silver, with a central tower of five battlements, a rounded door and sixteen arched windows, and two lower towers at the sides.
No coat of arms
there is no shield on top; the two drawings go directly on the field.
The squares with drops of blue and white are the vair, a heraldic figure of the House of Braganza, the dynasty that ruled Portugal. It is a motif that appears in Galicia because of the proximity and the dynastic ties with Portugal.
The central castle has sixteen arched windows, set in four rows. They are not decorative: they are the detail that tells an inhabited tower apart from a silhouette, and they give the whole the scale of a real building.
The flagpole half is a repeated geometric pattern; the fly half is a single large figure on a plain field. The flag sets texture against symbol instead of repeating the same device twice.
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Flag image: Macondo, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0.
