Red with a white cross of equal arms that reaches all four edges: the flag of Blanes.
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It is a rectangular field with a 2:3 ratio, red, with a white cross.
Each element and how many of the 1,390 flags in the catalogue carry it. In yellow, the rarest.
How it was born, how it has changed and what it means.
The flag of Blanes is a red field with a white cross whose arms reach the four edges. The cross divides the ground into four equal parts.
Blanes is a municipality in the province of Girona, on the coast of the Empordà. Its flag dates from 3 January 1995.
The two arms of the cross have the same thickness and the same length, and they reach the edge of the field. There is no margin: the cross takes up the whole ground.
No earlier versions are documented.
Red
the background of the field, in a single colour.
Cross
white, with the two arms of equal thickness and length.
Reach
the arms reach the edges, with no margin.
Division
the red is divided into four equal quadrants.
No coat of arms
no coat of arms, no border, no other figure.
The white cross is not centred leaving a margin around it, as on the flag of Savoy: here its arms reach the edge of the field. That is what makes the red split into four identical quadrants.
No border line, no shadow, no ornament at all. It is a cross formed by two straight strips of equal thickness, and nothing more. Among the flags of the repository it is one of the most elemental.
The Cross of St George usually appears with ornaments, and on other flags, over a more complex ground. Blanes leaves it alone on the red, with no other figure to support it.
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Flag image: Llull, Wikimedia Commons · Public domain.
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