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![[Flag of Borovnica]](../images/s/si-005.gif)
![[Flag of Borovnica]](../images/s/si-005v.gif)
Municipal flag of Borovnica, horizontal and vertical versions - Images by Željko Heimer, 26 December 2007
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The flag and arms of Borovnica are prescribed by Decision Odlok o grbu in zastavi Občine Borovnica, adopted on 1 March 2007 and published in the official Slovene gazette Uradni list Republike Slovenije, 23/2007, 16 March 2007.
The symbols were designed by Valt Jurečič of Heraldika d.o.o. and Heraldica Slovenica.
The flag, in proportions 2:5, is blue with the viaduct from the coat of arms set in the
first square, separated from the rest of the flag by a thin white stripe (width of
the stripe is 1/32 of the flag length).
The flag prescribed for vertical hoisting has the coat of arms rotated properly.
Željko Heimer & Pascal Gross, 26 December 2007
![[Coats of arms of Borovnica]](../images/s/si)005.gif)
Coat of arms of Borovnica - Image by Željko Heimer, 26 December 2007
The coat of arms of Borovnica, "Azure on a base vert a two-storied, six-arched viaduct
argent", is very much based on the previous coat of arms, with a good dose of "heraldification".
The center of Borovnica is dominated by a column, that is the remains of the 500-m long masonry railway viaduct, which was considered among the greatest building achievements of the XIXth century. The coat of arms of Borovnica shows the silhouette of the former viaduct, which was bombed down in the Second World War.
Željko Heimer, 31 December 2005
![[Formerlag of Borovnica]](../images/s/si-005o.gif)
![[Former coat of arms of Borovnica]](../images/s/si)005o.gif)
Former flag and arms of Borovnica - Imaged by Željko Heimer, 31 December 2005
According to Stanič & Jakopič [j2s05], the municipal symbols of Borovnica were already used when the current municipality was still a part of Vrhnika, from which it seceded in 1995.
The flag is light blue with the municipal coat of arms in the middle. Stanič & Jakopič show the flag in ratio 1:2 but a drawing sent by the municipal administration in May 2003 shows it with ratio ~7:10.
The former coat of arms of Borovnica shows the column, as well as the silhouette of the former viaduct described above.
Željko Heimer, 31 December 2005