Dark green, white stripe and a five-fingered purple hand: the flag of Almacelles, approved in 2005, is a wordplay on its name.
Every fact about the flag, each with what it means.
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It is a rectangular field (the field is the cloth of the flag) with a 2:3 ratio, dark green, with a horizontal white stripe and a purple hand on top.
Each element and how many of the 1,390 flags in the catalogue carry it. In yellow, the rarest.
How it was born, how it has changed and what it means.
The flag of Almacelles is a dark green field with a horizontal white stripe and a purple hand on top, with the five fingers pointing upwards. The design is a wordplay on the name of the town.
Almacelles is a municipality in the comarca of Segrià, in the province of Lleida. Its flag was approved on 17 June 2005.
The hand is the emblem of the Crown of Aragon and appears often in the municipalities of the Crown. In Almacelles the element does not go inside a coat of arms: it is a loose hand, in purple, on a green field.
It has never changed. It was approved in 2005 and there are no documented later modifications.
Dark green
the colour of the field.
White stripe
horizontal, it crosses the whole field and takes up 7/38 of its height.
Purple hand
the five fingers pointing up. It measures 15/19 of the height and starts 6/57 along the length, measured from the flagpole.
Position
the hand is laid over the stripe and is centred vertically.
The name Almacelles sounds like ‘al ma cells’, the cells of the hand. The canting element is a hand, and the name is built out of it. It is the same mechanism as the pine of Pina or the flower of Matet, but solved with a figure rather than a plant.
The open hand is the emblem of the Crown of Aragon. In Aragon and across the Crown it appears on flags, coats of arms and ornaments. Almacelles uses it without a coat of arms and in purple, an uncommon variant of a very widespread motif.
The size and position of the hand are not left to the draughtsman: the stripe takes up 7/38 of the height and the hand 15/19. It is blazon with arithmetic, the level of detail a municipal decree can allow.
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Flag image: Albert Mestre, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0.
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