^{This page is part of © FOTW Flags Of The World website}

Municipality of Vejer de la Frontera (Cádiz Province, Andalusia, Spain)

2:3
image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 02 Dec 2009

Description
Coat of Arms

See also:

Description

The flag of Vejer de la Frontera is olive green with the coat of arms in its centre. I spotted this flag in front of a venta ( a pub located at a road/highway) between Barbate and Conil de la Frontera on 7 November 2009.

Klaus-Michael Schneider, 02 Dec 2009

Coat of Arms

The version of the coat of arms seen on the flag: Upon the heart point of a red shield is a golden (yellow) castle placed upon a high fortress wall of the same colour. The castle is flanked by a tower at the dexter side and a rampant lion at the sinister side and a passant vixen upon the middle base point. All figures are golden (yellow). The whole ensemble is surrounded by a white inscription “IN NOMINE DEI AMEN.” placed just like it would be placed on a red and therefore here invisible bordure. The shield has a golden (yellow) mantling and is topped by a ducal coronet.

The central figure probably is symbolizing the local fortress. The tower and the lion are of course symbolizing Castilia and Leon and the vixen is an allusion to the ancient name “Melaria.” If I understood right, this is also the name of a plant, giving a lot of sweet juice like honey and therefore a preferred food of foxes. Others claim, the vixen would be an allusion to the insidiousness, cleverness and precaution the attempts of Vejer’s neighbours to spoil the city.

[dyo69] shows on p.296 an image of a municipal seal used in 1913, showing the same pattern as spotted by me. This version however was always critized being complicated and “unheraldic” and so there is another coat of arms, divided per fess with a black vixen tongued red in a golden (yellow) field at the lower half while the upper half is divided per pale showing the arms of Castilia and Leon in proper colour.

Klaus-Michael Schneider, 02 Dec 2009