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Flag of Badia del Vallès

Half yellow and half green with a black swift in the centre: this is the flag of Badia del Vallès (Barcelona), dating from 1998.

Flag of Badia del Vallès
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The flag, in figures

Every fact about the flag, each with what it means.

Proportions
2:33 wide for every 2 high. 989 flags in the catalogue share it.
Properties
Normal flagFIAV symbol: the form of the flag.
Use
CivilFIAV symbol: who may fly the flag.
Adopted
199811 June 1998 · 28 years ago
Colours
  • Yellow
  • Green
  • Black
  • White
Reference shades: the official one may vary slightly.
Coat of arms
YesIt carries the coat of arms on the cloth.
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Take a closer look

  1. The two halves

  2. 1

    The swallow

  3. 2

    The white chest

  4. 3

    The tail

How it is described

The flag in the words of vexillology and heraldry.

Vexillological description

It is a field with a 2:3 ratio divided into two equal vertical stripes: yellow by the flagpole and green towards the fly side. In the centre, over the join of the two, there is a black bird with a white breast, the swift.

Stripes
two halves of the same width, yellow and green.
Bird
centred on the division, with a height of five sevenths that of the field.
No coat of arms
it carries no drawn coat of arms or border.
Colours
yellow and green on the field; black and white on the bird.

What it carries

Each element and how many of the 1,390 flags in the catalogue carry it. In yellow, the rarest.

The full story

How it was born, how it has changed and what it means.

The flag of Badia del Vallès is a field divided into two equal vertical halves, yellow and green, with a black swift with a white breast in the centre, over the join of the two.

How it came about

Badia del Vallès is a municipality in the province of Barcelona, in the Vallès Occidental. Its flag is from 1998, dated 11 June.

The swift, with its long scythe-shaped wings, is the bird that nests in the buildings of the village. It is centred exactly on the line where the two coloured halves meet.

How it has changed

It has never changed. It is from 1998 and there are no documented later modifications.

What it means

  • Yellow

    the half by the flagpole.

  • Green

    the half towards the fly side.

  • Swift

    a black bird with a white breast, centred on the division. It measures five sevenths of the height of the field.

  • No coat of arms

    no coat of arms or border.

Fun facts

  1. The bird right at the border of the colours

    The swift is centred on the line where the two halves meet, so its left half falls on the yellow and its right on the green. It is a composition designed for the figure to be the bridge between the two fields.

  2. A bird that nests in the houses

    The swift is the bird that nests in buildings, and its scythe-winged silhouette is unmistakable. In the coat of arms of Badia it appears as a canting element, and here it is drawn whole, with the white breast marked.

  3. Five sevenths of the height

    The bird takes up five sevenths of the height of the field, that is, almost all of it. At that proportion the swift is what you see from a distance, and the two colours are left as a simple frame.

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Test what you have read about the flag of Badia del Vallès.

  1. 1. Which one is the flag of Badia del Vallès?

  2. 2. What are the proportions (height:width) of the flag?

  3. 3. In which year was the current flag adopted?

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Credits

Flag image: Nethunter, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0.

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