White half with the red cross of Saint James next to the flagpole and blue half with the grey tower: the two lords of Algorfa.
Every fact about the flag, each with what it means.
Normal flagFIAV symbol: the form of the flag.
CivilFIAV symbol: who may fly the flag.YesIt carries the coat of arms on the cloth.The flag in the words of vexillology and heraldry.
It is a rectangular field with a 2:3 ratio, divided vertically in half. Next to the flagpole it is white or pearl grey, with a red cross of Saint James. On the fly side it is blue, with a tower of the same white.
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.
The first partition, with the cross of Saint James, recalls that in 1272, after the conquest,…
Its coat of arms is one of the oldest legalised by the Generalitat: it was approved by Decree…
The flag came fifty years later, by the Resolution of 27 April 2007, of the conseller de Justícia,…
How it was born, how it has changed and what it means.
The flag of Algorfa is a field divided into two vertical halves with two different figures: the cross of Saint James on one side, the tower on the other. Each half recalls a different lord of the town.
Algorfa is a municipality in Baix Segura, in the province of Alicante. Its coat of arms is one of the oldest legalised by the Generalitat: it was approved by Decree of 3 October 1957, published in BOE number 272. The flag came fifty years later, by the Resolution of 27 April 2007, of the conseller de Justícia, Interior i Administracions Públiques, published in DOGV number 5,523.
The coat of arms is divided in two. The first partition, with the cross of Saint James, recalls that in 1272, after the conquest, Algorfa passed to the Order of Saint James during Castilian rule. The second, with the castle, is that of the Masquefa, who were lords afterwards. The flag transfers both figures to two equal halves.
It has never changed. It was approved in 2007 and there are no documented later modifications.
White
the half next to the flagpole, where the cross is.
Red cross of Saint James
the first partition, the passage to the Order of Saint James in 1272.
Blue
the fly half.
White tower
the castle, the arms of the Mosquera.
The coat of arms of Algorfa was approved by decree in 1957, when the Generalitat did not yet exist. The flag was not approved until 2007. Fifty years of official arms with no legalised cloth: it is probably the most extreme case in the whole País Valencià.
The cross of Saint James comes from 1272, when the town passed to that military order. The tower comes from the Mosquera, who were lords later. The flag splits the field in two so that each figure takes up a whole half: it is a coat of arms taken apart.
The scallop —the shell of Saint Hyacinth—, symbol of Saint James, is on the coat of arms of Albatera and also on that of Formentera del Segura, both in Baix Segura. Saint James is the patron of half the district.
Test what you have read about the flag of Algorfa.
Sources consulted:
Flag image: Macondo, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0.
Other flag
Europa
Asia
Western Asia
Other flag
Europa
Other flag
Europa
Other flag
América del Sur
Other flag
Europa
