Three horizontal stripes —blue, white and yellow— with the coat of arms on the white one and the two keys of Saint Peter on the arms.
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It is a rectangular field with a 2:3 ratio, divided into three equal horizontal stripes: blue above, white in the centre and yellow below. The municipal coat of arms goes in the central white stripe.
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Its coat of arms was made official by Resolution of 12 May 1986
The flag came shortly after, by the Resolution of 29 May 1987, of the same body
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The flag of Rojals is a field of three horizontal stripes —blue, white and yellow— with the coat of arms on the middle one. It is among the simplest in the Bajo Segura, but the coat of arms it carries on top has three distinct readings.
Rojals is a municipality of the Bajo Segura. Its coat of arms was made official by Resolution of 12 May 1986, of the Dirección General de Administración Local, published in DOGV number 396. The flag came shortly after, by the Resolution of 29 May 1987, of the same body.
The coat of arms is divided in two. The first part bears the keys of Saint Peter, in a cross and accompanied by two ears of wheat: the keys are the attribute of the saint, the local patron, and the ears allude to the economy of the municipality, nearly half of which is occupied by the irrigated fields. The second part is the three-arched bridge.
It has never changed. It was approved in 1987 and there are no documented later modifications.
Blue, white and yellow
the three stripes of the field.
Coat of arms on the white stripe
the municipal arms.
Keys of Saint Peter
the attribute of the saint, patron of the town.
Two ears of wheat
the agrarian economy of the municipality, almost half of it irrigated fields.
Three-arched bridge
one more element of the local coat of arms.
The two ears of wheat on the coat of arms represent the economy of the municipality, almost half of which is occupied by irrigated fields, where citrus fruit and vegetables predominate. It is not agrarian decoration: it is a fact about land use.
The keys of Saint Peter are set in a saltire, one above the other in a cross. That is how the keys of heaven are drawn: two crossed keys, the upper one with its bow to the left.
The divided coat of arms bears, in the upper part, the keys and the ears of wheat; in the lower, the three-arched bridge. That is three elements in two quarters, and the patron saint is only one of them: the saint takes up no more room than the bridge.
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