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Municipality of Monistrol de Calders (Bages County, Barcelona Province, Catalonia, Spain)

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image by Blas Delgado
Flag adopted 27 Oct 1998

Description

See also:

Barcelona Province (Catalonia, Spain)
Catalonia (Cataluña / Catalunya, Spain)
Spain

Description

Horizontally striped flag, yellow-red-green in proportions 2+1+1, the bottom two stripes separated by a white wavy line as wide as 1/12 of the flag's height, showing three crests. Ratio 2:3.

Colours from the arms. The green stripe represents the mound (mont) on the arms, canting for the beginning of the municipality's name; the wavy stripe represents the Calders riverside and the red stripe represents the sun on the arms, which stands for "the dawn in the municipality's freedom" (sic). Flag adopted 27th October 1998. Source for image and text: Fluvià 2001.

Some additional information, extracted from this webpage of the Statistics Institute of Catalonia (Idescat):

Area (km2): 22.0
County: Bages
Population (2001): 613

Santiago Dotor, 27 Dec 2001