The flag of Bellmunt d'Urgell (Lleida) raises a black hill under a golden hoopoe: the bird that nicknamed its inhabitants, “puputs”.
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It is a red field —the cloth of the flag —with a 2:3 ratio, with a black triangle resting on the lower edge and a yellow hoopoe in the centre.
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The traditional coat of arms —officialised on 17 November 2009 after a municipal file opened…
The flag, approved on 9 August 2012 and published in the DOGC of 12 September
How it was born, how it has changed and what it means.
On a red field, a black hill lying along the bottom and, on top of it, a golden hoopoe: the flag of Bellmunt d’Urgell (the Noguera, Lleida) is a bird perched on a hill, and that drawing explains a local nickname.
The traditional coat of arms —officialised on 17 November 2009 after a municipal file opened in 2008 — sums up the place: on gules, a hill of sable rising from the base, the canting arms of the “bell munt” (beautiful hill) that crowns the village, and above it a hoopoe of gold, so frequent an inhabitant of the district that the neighbours of the area call the people of Bellmunt “puputs” —hoopoes in Catalan. The flag, approved on 9 August 2012 and published in the DOGC of 12 September, turns the hill into a black triangle along the lower edge and leaves the bird occupying the centre.
With no earlier versions: it was the first regulated symbol of the municipality.
Black triangle
the hill that gives the village its name (a canting hill).
Golden hoopoe
the bird of the countryside that nicknames the neighbours.
Red ground
the tincture of the coat of arms.
The inhabitants of Bellmunt d’Urgell are known by their neighbours as “puputs”, the Catalan name for the hoopoe: the coat of arms and the flag adopted the nickname as local pride.
In the coat of arms the hill is a mound; in the flag it stretches until it becomes a triangle taking up the whole lower edge, like a miniature mountain range.
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Flag image: Albert Mestre, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0.
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