Municipality of Roses (Alt Empordà County, Girona Province, Catalonia, Spain)

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image by Blas Delgado
Flag adopted 16 Oct 1995

• Description

See also:

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

White flag with three red [heraldic] roses, with yellow seeds and green barbs, two of them on the top half of the flag, the first set apart from the hoist 2/7 [of the flag's length] and the second set apart from the fly 2/7 [of the flag's length], the third centred on the bottom half of the flag.

The flag is a banner of the arms (blazoned Argent three roses Gules seeded Or barbed Vert) which are canting (in English as in Catalan). Flag adopted 16th October 1995. Source for image and text: Fluvià 2001.

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

Area (km2): 45.9
County: Alt Empordà
Population (2001): 12,726

Santiago Dotor, 24 Sep 2004

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