The senyera with the coat of arms of the town in the centre: the flag of Benissa carries the bars twice, on the background and inside the coat of arms.
Every fact about the flag, each with what it means.
Normal flagFIAV symbol: the form of the flag.
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, yellow, with four horizontal red stripes: nine equal stripes in all, starting and ending in yellow. In the centre it carries the coat of arms of the municipality.
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 came first, approved by royal decree of 9 July 1982
The Valencian Government approved it by order of 27 February 1990
How it was born, how it has changed and what it means.
The flag of Benissa, in the Alicante comarca of Marina Alta, is the senyera of yellow and red stripes with the coat of arms of the town in the centre. It carries the bars twice: on the background of the cloth and inside the coat of arms.
The coat of arms came first, approved by royal decree of 9 July 1982. Eight years later the city council asked for a flag and chose a formula shared by many Valencian towns: put that coat of arms on top of the senyera. The Valencian Government approved it by order of 27 February 1990, with the endorsement of the Royal Academy of History.
It has not changed since it was approved in 1990.
Yellow and red stripes
the colours of the Kings of Aragon, the same as the Valencian senyera.
Golden castle on blue
it is not a real castle. It stands for the old church of San Pedro, which looked like a fortress high above the town.
Four red bars on gold
they remember that Benissa formed part of the Kingdom of Valencia from very early on.
Royal crown
it tops the coat of arms.
Benissa never had a castle. The one on the coat of arms is the church-fortress of San Pedro, a building so imposing that the town used it as its symbol.
The church of San Pedro was built in the 16th century with defensive walls, because pirates often attacked the coast. It was demolished in 1940, and today only a replica of its portal and a tile mural in the Plaza de la Iglesia Vieja remain.
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Text based on the article “Benissa (Alicante, Spain) — Flags of the World” from the Spanish Wikipedia, published under the licence CC BY-SA 4.0.
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Flag image: Mutxamel, Wikimedia Commons · Public domain.
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