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by Arnaud Leroy, 27 February 2005
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The city of Gulbene is located in the north-east of Latvia,
some 50 km from the borders with Estonia and Russia. Gulbene is
the capital city of the district of Gulbene (1,876 sq. km; 29,797
inhabitants in 1995). The flag of Gulbene is horizontally
divided white-blue with a black shield charged with a white swan
in the middle (most probably the municipal coat of arms).
The image was made by Arnaud Leroy, after a colour
picture of a real flag found by himself on <www.geocities.com/gulbenerkb/atteli.html>
Ivan Sache, 27 February 2005
There is info from town official home page at <www.gulbenesdome.lv>:
On 4 July 2002, Latvian State Comitee for Heraldics was accepted
sketch of flag of Gulbene - author is teacher of Gulbene Art
school Sandra Dikmane. In centre of flag is Coat of Arms of
Gulbene - silver swan on black field. Flag is divided in two
parts - upper is silver light gray [again unheraldic concept!],
lower part - blue-grayish-violet [sic!]. Proportions 1:2.
Citizens of gulbene first time were introduced with flag at Town
Fest 2002, when flag was consecrated. Now flag is keept in Town
hall and is used in all important town activities.
Gvido Petersons, 28 February 2005
António Martins asked: Meaning that there is only one copy of
the flag?!
Probably yes but maybe it means an consecrated and specially sewn
flag with fringe (You can see it on photo) In Latvia flag
is widely used only in couple municipalities: Riga, Ventspils and
may be in some others. In small towns flag often is used like
Standard - sewn in one exemplar and used with high caution.
Gvido Petersons, 1 March 2005