Amposta brings together in its flag the bars of the Crown of Aragon and the cross of the Knights of the Hospital: a red, yellow and white field from 2007.
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It is a red flag with a 2:3 ratio with a stripe (stripe: each band of colour) of bars against the flagpole and a Maltese cross over the rest of the field.
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 Amposta is a red field with the bars of the Crown of Aragon against the flagpole and a Maltese cross over the rest of the field. It brings together two royal galleys: the Crown of Aragon and the Order of the Hospital.
Amposta is a municipality in Montsià, in the province of Tarragona. Its flag was approved in 2007.
The bars —the four red stripes on a yellow ground —are the arms of the Crown of Aragon. The Maltese cross is that of the Order of the Hospital, a military order that had weight in the Crown of Aragon in the Mediterranean.
It has never changed. It was approved in 2007 and there are no documented later modifications.
Red
the background of the field.
Stripe against the flagpole
a yellow pale with four red bars inside. It takes up 3/11 of the length.
Maltese cross
over the rest of the field.
The bars are from the Crown of Aragon; the Maltese cross, from the Order of the Hospital. The flag of Amposta does not choose between them: it puts them together, one by the flagpole and the other in the centre. It is a flag with two historical authorities.
The bar of the Crown does not take up half the field: it is a narrow stripe against the flagpole, 3/11 of the length. The bars are a small emblem on a red field, not the dominant theme of the flag.
Amposta is at the southern end of Catalonia, facing the Ebro Delta. Its flag combines two symbols from two different centuries —a medieval crown and a military order —which are the two layers of the history of the Crown of Aragon.
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Flag image: Ebrenc and Albert Mestre, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.5.
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