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Municipality of Mieres (Garrotxa County, Girona Province, Catalonia, Spain)

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by Blas Delgado
Flag adopted 24 Jul 1998

Description

See also:

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

Description

Red flag with a yellow hoist stripe as wide as 1/3 of the flag's length. Centred on the division line, two counterchanged keys crossed in saltire, separated from both top and bottom by 1/9 of the flag's height. Ratio 2:3.

The flag is a banner of the arms (blazoned Per pale Or and Gules two keys in saltire counterchanged) offset to the hoist. The keys are the attribute of St Peter, the local patron saint. Flag adopted 24th July 1998. Source for image and text: Fluvià 2001.

Not to be mistaken with Mieres in Asturias, a much larger municipality. Some additional information, extracted from this webpage of the Statistics Institute of Catalonia (Idescat):

Area (km2): 26.3
County: Garrotxa
Population (2001): 318

Santiago Dotor, 27 Dec 2001

Alternate Depiction

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image from Eduardo Panizo's Vexilla Hispanica, 25 Jul 2003