White, with a wide green stripe and two yellow ones: Argelaguer turns the sainfoin of its coat of arms into vertical stripes. Published in the DOGC in 2004.
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It is a white flag with a 2:3 ratio and three vertical stripes (stripe: each band of colour) grouped in the centre of the field.
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The flag of Argelaguer is a white field with three vertical stripes grouped in the centre: one wide dark green one and two very thin yellow ones against it.
Argelaguer is a municipality in the comarca of the Ripollès, in the province of Girona. Its flag was published in the DOGC on 15 March 2004.
The design turns the figure of the coat of arms into stripes: the sainfoin, the fodder plant that gives the town its name. Instead of drawing the plant, the flag transforms it into three bands of colour.
It has never changed. It was published in 2004 and there are no documented later modifications.
White
what remains on either side of the group of stripes, at the flagpole and at the fly side.
Dark green stripe
in the centre, wide.
Two yellow stripes
much thinner, against the green one.
No coat of arms
it carries no figure on top.
The sainfoin is the fodder plant that gives Argelaguer its name. The flag does not draw it: it translates it into vertical stripes, one wide green one and two thin yellow ones. It is the same device as the pine of Pina or the flower of Matet.
The stripes do not take up the whole width: they are grouped in the centre, with white on either side. It is an unusual composition, because it leaves the white field as a wide frame to the left and right.
The difference in thickness is the key detail: one green stripe dominates and two yellow ones accompany it like fillets. Without that disproportion, the group would be just another tricolour and would not stand out.
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Flag image: Asqueladd, Wikimedia Commons · Public domain.
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