Half blue with five golden ears of wheat and half white with three blue waves: the huerta and the Segura.
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It is a rectangular field with a 2:3 ratio, divided vertically in half. The first half, by the flagpole (the mast), is blue with a sheaf of five yellow ears of wheat. The second half, at the fly side (the free side), is white with three blue waves.
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Its coat of arms follows a different rule from the usual ones: it was approved by Royal Decree…
The flag came twenty-one years later, by the Resolution of 6 June 1997, of the conseller…
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The flag of Formentera del Segura splits the field into two vertical halves with one figure each: the wheat of the huerta and the water of the Segura. It is the coat of arms of the village extended onto the cloth.
Formentera del Segura is a municipality in the Baix Segura, in the province of Alicante. Its coat of arms follows a different rule from the usual ones: it was approved by Royal Decree 1830/1976, of 2 July, published in the Boletín Oficial del Estado number 182. The flag came twenty-one years later, by the Resolution of 6 June 1997, of the conseller de Presidència, published in the DOGV.
The coat of arms shows the shield, the arms of the Pérez de Sarrió — marquises of Algorfa and lords of Formentera —and some waves representing the River Segura. The flag, on the other hand, changes one of the two figures: instead of the Pérez de Sarrió it puts a sheaf of wheat.
It has never changed. It was approved in 1997 and there are no documented later modifications.
Blue
the half by the flagpole, where the wheat is.
White
the fly side half, where the waves are.
Sheaf of five ears
a canting element from the name of the village, Formentera, derived from «formentera», the land that gives wheat.
Three blue waves
the River Segura.
The coat of arms was approved by Royal Decree in July 1976 and the flag in June 1997. More than twenty years of official arms with no legalised cloth.
Formentera comes from formenter, the fallow or fallow land, the one left resting so it becomes fertile. Hence the sheaf of five ears the flag carries.
The coat of arms carries the noble shield of the Pérez de Sarrión and the waves of the Segura. The flag keeps the waves but replaces the lords’ shield with the sheaf of wheat. It is a rewriting of the heraldic motif, not a copy.
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