Upper half red and lower half white, with the coat of arms of the boat and the two crescents in the centre.
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CivilFIAV symbol: who may fly the flag.YesIt carries the coat of arms on the cloth.The flag in the words of vexillology and heraldry.
It is a rectangular field with a 2:3 ratio, divided horizontally in half. The upper half is red and the lower one white. The municipal coat of arms, crowned, goes in the centre of the field.
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The flag of Barxeta is a field split in two halves, red and white, with the coat of arms in the centre. What the history of the village tells is in that coat of arms: a boat, two crescents and two surnames.
Barxeta is a municipality in the Costera, in the province of Valencia. Its coat of arms was approved by Resolution of 14 July 1992, of the conseller de Administració Pública, published in DOGV number 1,845.
The boat is a canting element, a play on the name of the village. The two crescents recall that Barxeta was an old Moorish farmhouse. And under the boat appear the arms of the Zapata and the Tallada, ancient lords of the place.
It has never changed. It was approved in 1992 and there are no documented later modifications.
Red
the upper half.
White
the lower half.
Coat of arms
in the centre, with a crown as its crest.
Boat
the canting element, the play on the name Barxeta.
Two crescents
the old Moorish farmhouse.
Zapata and Tallada
the ancient lords of the town.
Barxeta sounds like “little boat”, and its coat of arms bears a boat. It is a canting element, like the pine of Pina, the flower of Matet or the pine of Pego. In the Costera, the play on words between the place name and the coat of arms is constant.
The two crescents are not an Islamic symbol in general but a specific sign: the Moorish farmhouse. When a Valencian village wants to recall a Muslim origin, it almost always does so with crescents.
Under the boat appear the arms of the Zapata and of the Tallada. They are two different families in a single shield, joined by the same lordship. Many Valencian municipal arms accumulate two lineages like this, one above the other.
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Flag image: Macondo, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0.
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