White upper half with a green elm and blue lower half with a white tower: thePuis and the castle, in Navaixes.
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It is a rectangular field with a 2:3 ratio, divided horizontally in half. The upper half is white and bears in its centre a green elm (omb). The lower half is blue and bears in its centre a white tower, with the masonry marked in black.
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Its coat of arms is one of the oldest in the País Valencià: it was restored by Decree 562/1961
The flag came thirty-seven years later, by Resolution of 17 June 1998, of the conseller…
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The flag of Navaixes cuts the field in half: the elm in the white half and the tower in the blue half. The two trees that define the locality, one on each ground.
Navaixes is a municipality of the Alt Palància, in the province of Valencia. Its coat of arms is one of the oldest in the País Valencià: it was restored by Decree 562/1961, of 6 April, published in BOE number 86. The flag came thirty-seven years later, by Resolution of 17 June 1998, of the conseller de Presidència, published in DOGV number 3,304.
The coat of arms bears an elm, the tree that gives the place its name —navalixes, in Valencian, literally means “place of the elm”— and a tower, alluding to the castle. The flag carries both figures on a divided field.
It has never changed. It was approved in 1998 and there are no documented later modifications. The coat of arms, on the other hand, comes from a restoration of 1961.
White upper half
the argent of the coat of arms.
Green elm
the tree that gives the town its name.
Blue lower half
the azure of the coat of arms.
White tower
the castle of Navaixes.
Navaixes is one of the few municipalities with a coat of arms restored by a decree of 1961, when the Generalitat did not yet exist and it was the national government authorities who approved the arms. The flag is from 1998, almost forty years later. It is the oldest case in this group.
Navaixes means, in Valencian, place of the elm. The flag puts the elm in the upper half. It is a canting element, like the cypress of Cirat or the flower of Matet.
Each half of the field bears a single figure: the elm above, the tower below. It is a flag that reads as two superimposed coats of arms, instead of one coat of arms with two elements.
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