The flag of Belianes (Lleida) is purple with two golden palm branches and a royal crown: local martyrs and a village that kings bought and sold.
Every fact about the flag, each with what it means.
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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 purple field —the cloth of the flag —with a 2:3 ratio, with two parallel yellow bands crossing the field on the diagonal, descending from left to right.
Each element and how many of the 1,390 flags in the catalogue carry it. In yellow, the rarest.
Every date in its story, at a glance.
The coat of arms, approved on 28 April 1993
With reason: Belianes was a village that the kings of the Crown of Aragon bought and sold like…
How it was born, how it has changed and what it means.
Purple with two crossed golden palm branches and a royal crown on top: the flag of Belianes (Urgell, Lleida) is a field of an unusual colour that mixes the martyrdom of two saints with a long dispute between kings.
The coat of arms, approved on 28 April 1993, sets two golden palm branches “laid on a staff and pointing” on a field of purple: they are a tribute to the martyrdom of the saints Esteve and Sebastià, and the royal crown is a traditional sign of the place. With reason: Belianes was a village that the kings of the Crown of Aragon bought and sold like an estate —Jaume I, Jaume the Fair, Pere III and others changed its dominion, which always returned to the viscounts of Cardona —and it eventually made the leap to a flag on 31 March 1994, published in the DOGC of 20 April.
The purple field of 1994 is still the only one Belianes has had.
Two golden palm branches
a tribute to the martyrdom of the saints Esteve and Sebastià.
Royal crown
the memory of a village that was property of the monarchy.
Purple
the rare tincture of the coat of arms; few Catalan municipalities dress in purple.
The kings of Aragon bought and sold Belianes for centuries, and the dominion always ended up returning to the viscounts of Cardona: that is why the coat of arms bears a royal crown as the signature of so many masters.
Purple (violet) is one of the scarcest colours in Catalan heraldry: to find a purple flag in the Urgell is literally to find a rarity.
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Flag image: Mutari 14:17, 25 September 2007 (UTC), Wikimedia Commons · Public domain.
