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Flag of Vélez-Blanco - Image from the Simbolos de Almería website, 22 March 2014
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The municipality of Vélez-Blanco (2,066 inhabitants in 2013; 44,100 ha; municipal website) is located 170 km north of Almería.
Vélez-Blanco has kept a castle from the 16th century and the Sign's Cave (Cueva de los Letreros), famous for the Indalo Neolithic painting, representing a human figure with widespread arms and a rainbow. The Indalo, now an unofficial symbol of the Province of Almería, is considered as a symbol of wealth and happiness.
The flag of Vélez-Blanco (photo), adopted on 13 May 2011 by the Municipal Council and submitted on 17 May 2011 to the Directorate General of the Local Administration, is prescribed by a Decree adopted on 1 June 2011 by the Directorate General of the Local Administration and published on 21 June 2011 in the official gazette of Andalusia, No. 120, p. 50 (text).
The flag is described as follows:
Flag: Rectangular panel, in proportions 2:3, white with a pink border. In the middle of the flag is placed the municipal coat of arms.
The coat of arms of Vélez-Blanco, submitted on 5 May 2011 to the Directorate General of the Local Administration, is prescribed by a Decree adopted on 1 June 2011 by the Directorate General of the Local Administration and published on 21 June 2011 in the official gazette of Andalusia, No. 120, p. 50 (text).
The coat of arms is described as follows:
Coat of arms: Or three rocks proper per fess on waves azure and argent ensigned with three nettles of seven leaves vert. The shield surmounted by a Marquis' coronet or and surrounded with lambrequins [vert].
Klaus-Michael Schneider & Ivan Sache, 22 March 2014
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