The flag of Hautes-Alpes combines the dolphin of the Dauphiné, the Occitan cross and royal fleurs-de-lis; the departmental council uses a logo with an ibex.
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It is a rectangular field with a 2:3 ratio, divided into two vertical halves with a horizontal stripe above: that stripe is blue and is full of yellow fleurs-de-lis.
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The flag associated with Hautes-Alpes is a field divided into two vertical halves with a horizontal stripe at the top: the stripe is blue and full of golden fleurs-de-lis; the left half is red with a golden cross; the right one is yellow with a blue dolphin.
Hautes-Alpes is a department in southern France. The flag combines three emblems: the dolphin of the Dauphiné, the Occitan cross and the royal fleurs-de-lis.
It has never changed. No approval date is recorded.
Upper stripe
blue, with repeated golden fleurs-de-lis. It takes up the whole top.
Left half
red, with a golden cross with widening arms, centred in that half.
Right half
yellow, with a blue dolphin with red fins, looking towards the flagpole.
The fleur-de-lis comes from the French crown, the Occitan cross from the Provence region and the dolphin from the Dauphiné, the small state that ruled Nice. The flag brings together three different stories of the same territory.
The blue dolphin is turned towards the flagpole, the side the flag is hoisted from. The orientation is part of the blazon: a dolphin looking at the fly side would be a different flag.
The golden cross is not an ordinary cross: its arms widen outwards. It is the shape of the Occitan cross, which also appears on the proposed flag of Haute-Garonne. Two different departments carry it.
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Flag image: Ætoms, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0.
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