Last modified: 2015-07-29 by ivan sache
Keywords: les borges del camp | borges del camp (les) | huts: 2 (green) | stripe: wavy (blue) |
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image by Blas Delgado
Flag adopted 09 Oct 1998
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Yellow flag with a light blue wavy stripe as wide as 1/6 of the flag's height running diagonally from top hoist to bottom fly, showing two crests. Two green huts, each as high as 1/3 of the flag's height and as wide as 1/6 of the flag's length, centred on two imaginary squares as wide as 1/2 of the flag's height placed on the top hoist and on the bottom fly. Ratio 2:3.
Colours and charges from the arms. The huts (borges) are canting arms and the wavy stripe represents the riverside. Flag adopted 9th October 1998. Source for image and text: Fluvià 2001.
According to the Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana the correct spelling is not borga/borges but borja/borjes and it is "a doorless, stonework hut used as a refuge to keep watch over the vineyard."
Some additional information, extracted from this webpage of the Statistics Institute of Catalonia (Idescat):
Area (km2): 8.2
County: Baix Camp
Population (2001): 1,620
Santiago Dotor, 20 Dec 2001
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image from Eduardo Panizo's Vexilla Hispanica, 25 Jul 2003