Flag of Alió

The flag of Alió is a field divided into two vertical halves, white and yellow, with two figures: a blue wing over the white and a T-shaped black cross over the yellow.

How it came about

Alió is a municipality in Tarragonès, in the province of Tarragona. Its flag was approved by resolution of 4 April 2002.

The design reproduces the two halves of its coat of arms without enclosing them in it. Instead of placing the whole coat of arms in the centre of the field, the field is divided in two and each figure occupies its half. They are the arms taken apart onto the cloth.

How it has changed

It has never changed. It was approved in 2002 and there are no documented later modifications.

What it means

• White

  the half next to the flagpole, with the blue wing.

• Yellow

  the fly half, with the black cross.

• Blue wing

  one of the two figures of the coat of arms, five sixths of the height of the field.

• T-shaped black cross

  the other figure of the coat of arms, of the same height as the wing.

The T-shaped cross is that of Saint Tecla, patron of the municipality.

Fun facts

1. The coat of arms taken apart onto the cloth

   Almost all municipal flags place the whole coat of arms in the centre of the field. Alió does the opposite: it divides the field in two halves and spreads one figure across each.

2. Saint Tecla and the name of the town

   The T-shaped black cross is that of Saint Tecla, patroness of the town. The name Alió begins with ‘Ali’, a diminutive of Alio.

3. Two figures of the same height

   The wing and the cross both measure five sixths of the height of the field. Making them equal is what makes the two halves read as one whole instead of two pieces of cloth stuck together.

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