The flag of Benavent de Segrià (Lleida) is red with a white pale and a golden St Andrew's cross: a village of windmills and marquises.
Every fact about the flag, each with what it means.
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It is a red field —the cloth of the flag —with a 2:3 ratio, with a vertical white pale in the centre and a yellow saltire on top.
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 8 June 1995
The flag, published in the DOGC of 19 February 1997
How it was born, how it has changed and what it means.
Red, with a white pale in the centre crossed by a golden St Andrew’s cross: the flag of Benavent de Segrià (Segrià, Lleida) does not paint the mill that named it —that is the coat of arms’ job —but it leans on it.
The coat of arms, approved on 8 June 1995, is a song to the wind: on gules, a windmill of argent closed of sable with sails of gold, a “canting arms” that alludes —a sort of speaking portrait —to the name of the village; a marquis’s crown, because Benavent was the seat of a marquisate from 1702. The flag, published in the DOGC of 19 February 1997, took another route: the two geometric pieces of the mill’s sails, the white pale and the golden saltire, on the red of the coat of arms.
No earlier documented version: it has been the only official flag since 1997.
White pale and gold saltire
the sails of the windmill of the coat of arms, turned into a flag.
Red ground
the gules field of the municipal arms.
No mill and no crown
the flag simplifies; the coat of arms keeps the detail.
Benavent was the seat of a marquisate from 1702, and the coat of arms does not hide it: its marquis’s crown stamps the mill with the title of rural nobility.
The X-shaped cross of the flag is the golden “aspat” that the coat of arms sets over the mill: the sails of the wind, stretched across the whole field; the white pale acts as the tower that holds them.
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Flag image: Mutari 14:25, 25 September 2007 (UTC), Wikimedia Commons · Public domain.
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