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Municipality of Calp / Calpe (Alicante Province, Valencian Community, Spain)

Marina Alta County

Last modified: 2015-05-19 by eugene ipavec
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[Municipality of Calp / Calpe (Alicante Province, Valencian Community, Spain)]
image by Jose Antonio Jimenez Ruiz, 04 Jun 2009



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Introduction

In the province of Alicante, there are several municipalities that have a monocoloured flag with the municipal coa in the center. Calp (Spanish: Calpe, 23,60 km² and 28.000 hab.) is a municipality in the comarca of Marina Alta in the Valencian Community.

Jose Antonio Jimenez Ruiz, 04 Jun 2009


Description

"El paño, de gran antiguedad, es de color púrpura."

"The flag – of great antiquity – is purple."

Source: Banderas 34 (Bóletin de Sociedad Española de Vexilologia), Mar 1990 [drn90h]

Jose Antonio Jimenez Ruiz, 04 Jun 2009


Coat of Arms

[Municipality of Calp / Calpe (Alicante Province, Valencian Community, Spain)]
image by Jose Antonio Jimenez Ruiz, 04 Jun 2009

"[E]l escudo municipal es: de sinople, una torre de oro surmontada de un arco y dos flechas en aspa de lo mismo; bordura de plata con la leyenda "MUY HEROICA VILLA" en letras capitales negras; va timbrado de corona de barón."

"[T]he municipal coat of arms is: sinople a tower or [obviously wrong] surmounted by a bow and two arrows in saltire of the same; bordure silver with the legend "MUY HEROICA VILLA" in black capital letters; above, a baronial coronet."

Source: Eduardo Panizo's Vexilla Hispanica

Jose Antonio Jimenez Ruiz, 04 Jun 2009


Unidentified Flag

[Unidentified Flag in the Municipality of Calp / Calpe (Alicante Province, Valencian Community, Spain)]
image by Jose Antonio Jimenez Ruiz, 04 Jun 2009

Personal observation: when I was younger, I saw in a hotel in Calpe the usual flags, but I saw a green and white horizontal bicolor flag, which I never knew what belonged to, but it's a coincidence that these are the colors of the local shield.

Jose Antonio Jimenez Ruiz, 04 Jun 2009

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