Divided horizontally into three: red on top and bottom, and in the centre a green tree over a black hare with a white collar.
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It is a rectangular field with a 2:3 ratio, divided into three horizontal stripes of equal height. The upper and lower ones are red; the middle one is white and carries a green tree with a black hare at its foot, with a white collar.
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The flag of Gaibiel puts a tree and a hare on a white stripe, between two red ones. The hare wears a collar, a detail that almost no other municipal coat of arms in the Valencian Country carries.
Gaibiel is a municipality in the Alt Palància, in the province of Valencia. Its coat of arms was approved by Resolution of 14 December 2000, of the conseller de Justícia i Administracions Públiques, published in DOGV number 3,920.
The tree is a traditional element of the coat of arms of the town. The hare, on the other hand, comes from the arms of the Carrillo, old barons of Gaibiel: it is a reminder of the house that lorded the place, not a symbol of the landscape.
It has never changed. It was approved in 2000 and there are no documented later modifications.
Red
the upper and lower stripes.
White
the middle stripe.
Green tree
the traditional element of the coat of arms of the town.
Black hare with white collar
the arms of the Carrillo, barons of Gaibiel.
Almost no heraldic hare wears a collar. This one does, and it is the feature that identifies the house of the Carrillo, the barons who were lords of the place. The collar turns a wild animal into a family piece.
In the same coat of arms, the tree and the hare come from different places. The tree is local tradition; the hare is a reminder of the noble line that possessed it. It is a mix of what the place means and what whoever commanded it meant.
The field is divided horizontally into three: red, white, red. The pale stripe is thus separated and serves as a ground for the two figures. It is a cheap way of gaining contrast without spending ink.
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Flag image: Macondo, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0.
