Divided horizontally in three: red by the flagpole, yellow in the centre and green on the free side, with the municipal coat of arms on top.
Every fact about the flag, each with what it means.
Normal flagFIAV symbol: the form of the flag.
CivilFIAV symbol: who may fly the flag.YesIt carries the coat of arms on the cloth.The flag in the words of vexillology and heraldry.
It is a rectangular field with a 2:3 ratio, divided into three horizontal stripes of equal height: red by the flagpole, yellow in the centre and green at the fly. The municipal coat of arms goes in the centre of the field.
Each element and how many of the 1,390 flags in the catalogue carry it. In yellow, the rarest.
Every date in its story, at a glance.
In fact, the municipality lay within the territory of Begís until 1842
Its coat of arms was approved by Resolution of 12 July 2001
The flag came just seven months later, by Resolution of 20 February 2002, published in DOGV number…
How it was born, how it has changed and what it means.
The flag of Sacanyet is among the cleanest in the País Valencià: three stripes of pure colours and, on top, the coat of arms. The three are those of the Crown of Aragon, and the coat of arms supplies the only thing they were missing.
Sacanyet is a municipality of the Alt Palància. Its coat of arms was approved by Resolution of 12 July 2001, of the conseller de Justícia i Administracions Públiques, published in DOGV number 4,077. The flag came just seven months later, by Resolution of 20 February 2002, published in DOGV number 4,220.
The coat of arms bears an alzina —a beech, the traditional tree of the town— and the crosses that recall that Sacanyet belonged to the commandery of Begís, of the Order of Calatrava. In fact, the municipality lay within the territory of Begís until 1842.
It has never changed. It was approved in 2002 and there are no documented later modifications.
Red and yellow
the colours of the Crown of Aragon, on the first and central stripes.
Green
the fly-side stripe.
Coat of arms in the centre
the municipal arms, with the beech grove and the crosses.
The coat of arms was approved on 12 July 2001 and the flag on 20 February 2002: barely seven months. It is among the fastest approvals in the whole País Valencià, and probably because the design was already clear.
The crosses on the coat of arms of Sacanyet are not an ornament: they recall that the municipality belonged to the commandery of Begís, of the Order of Calatrava. And it is not a vague reference: Sacanyet lay within the territory of Begís until 1842.
The stripes are red, yellow and green: the three of the senyera, but instead of nine narrow stripes here there are only three, equal, as a simplification. The coat of arms is the only thing that breaks the symmetry.
Test what you have read about the flag of Sacanyet.
Sources consulted:
Flag image: Macondo, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0.
Other flag
América del sur
Other flag
Europa
Other flag
Europa
Other flag
Europa
Africa
Western Africa
Other flag
América del Sur
