Yellow on top with three crimson castle towers in a row, and green below with no figure at all.
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It is a rectangular field with a 2:3 ratio, with the upper half yellow and the lower one green.
Each element and how many of the 1,390 flags in the catalogue carry it. In yellow, the rarest.
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The flag of Beniel is a field with three crimson castle towers on a yellow ground, in the upper half, and plain green below.
Beniel is a municipality in the region of Murcia. Its flag is one of the symbols of the municipality.
The three towers are aligned in a row towards the flagpole side, leaving the right half of the yellow field empty. Each tower has an arched portal at the base, a battlemented body and a crown of three merlons.
No earlier versions are documented.
Yellow
the upper stripe, a little over half the height.
Green
the lower stripe, plain and with no figures.
Towers
three, crimson, aligned in a row towards the flagpole.
Each tower
an arched portal at the base, a battlemented body and three merlons at the top.
No coat of arms
the towers go directly onto the field.
The towers take up only the left half of the yellow stripe. The right side is completely empty, so the composition is asymmetric and the whole reads towards the flagpole.
The three towers are separated from each other, with visible space. They do not touch nor share a base: they are three independent buildings, not a continuous fortress.
The three towers have the same arched door, repeated. That repetition instead of a variation is what gives the group its unity and makes them read as a single repeated figure.
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Text based on the article “Bandera de Beniel” from the Spanish Wikipedia, published under the licence CC BY-SA 4.0.
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Flag image: Xinese-v (Taller de Heráldica y Vexilología in the Spanish Wikipedia ), Wikimedia Commons · Public domain.
