A red gonfalon with a yellow border and a shield with scallop shells on a green ground: the armorial banner of Cantal, used in front of the departmental council.
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It is a rectangular field with a 3:5 ratio on a green ground, with a red gonfalon with a golden border in the centre; on top of it is a small blue coat of arms.
Each element and how many of the 1,390 flags in the catalogue carry it. In yellow, the rarest.
How it was born, how it has changed and what it means.
The flag associated with Cantal is a green field with a red gonfalon with a golden border in the centre, and on top a small blue coat of arms with six scallop shells.
Cantal is a department in central France. Its flag has a ratio of 3:5, not the usual 2:3.
The gonfalon is an ancient three-tailed standard. The six scallop shells are the cockle shells of the Way of St James.
It has never changed. No approval date is recorded.
Green
the ground of the field, plain and with no stripes.
Gonfalon
red with a golden border. It almost touches the top and bottom edges.
Small coat of arms
blue, with a diagonal golden band and six white scallop shells.
The six scallop shells are from the Way of St James, which crosses the department. It is a coat of arms that counts a pilgrimage route.
The main figure is not a shield but a gonfalon. Above it goes the coat of arms, smaller. The flag stacks two pieces.
The gonfalon is tall and narrow. Without a proportionally taller field, the figure would not fit.
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Flag image: Spedona, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0.
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