City of Cervelló (Catalonia, Spain)

Barcelona Province

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Flag of Cervello since 2018 - Image by Jose Antonio Jiménez Ruiz, 26 December 2022

• Current flag of Cervello
  • Flags previousy proposed or flown

See also:

• Barcelona Province (Catalonia, Spain)
• Catalonia (Spain)
• Spain

Current flag of Cervello

The new flag was approved on May 14, 2018, and was published in the Diari Oficial de la Generalitat Catalana nº 7708, dated September 10, 2018: Yellow flag, with the dark blue deer of the shield, 3/4 of the height of the cloth, in the center; proportions 2:3.

Jose Antonio Jiménez Ruiz, 26 December 2022

Flags previouly proposed or flown

In 1983, the councilor Josep Llurba (Bloc Democràtic d’Esquerres) goes make a proposal to create the flag of the municipality. Cervelló did not yet have an official shield

Culture councilor Joan Dólera goes make the necessary arrangements with the corresponding organisms and in 1984 the Plenary session of the City Council created and approved a flag, but the Generalitat, which is the competent body, did not approve it. A flag, with a blue deer and three horizontals bands, the central one dark blue and the other two colored yellow, was used, but in an unofficial way.

The shield was adopted under the new recommendations of the heraldist Armand de Fluvià.

Coat of arms adopted in 1984 - Image by Jose Antonio Jiménez Ruiz, 26 December 2022

"Escut caironat: d’or, un cérvol d’atzur. Per timbre una corona de baró" [gold shield in lozenge form (diamond shaped) with a blue deer; as crest baron crown]: es-b-cvl)

In 2006, the Plenary initiates a new expedient for make it official and ask for technical assistance to the Generalitat to prepare the project. However, the expedient is stopped and after the time, expiration is declared and archived the performances.

In July of 2017, a new expedient was started again, which incorporated the adviser's report of Heraldry and Genealogy of Catalonia, Armand de Fluvià, with the dimensions and the colors that the design of the flag should have. The report provided both options that he had already proposed in the past, one with the yellow background and the drawing of the deer dark blue of the shield in the center, and the other, with three horizontal bands, with the central one dark blue and the other two colored yellow.

According to the initial proposals flag by this adviser of Heraldry and Genealogy of Catalonia, the City Council asks the opinion of the citizens of Cervelló to express which of the two proposals he likes the most. For a large majority came up with the proposal that finally approved, based on the shield municipal heraldic, incorporating the deer dark blue representing the barony of Cervelló on a yellow background.

Sources:
- Associació Catalana de Vexil·lologia (ACV)
- Municipal information magazine "Cervelló informació" (July-2018, page 6)
-Magazine "Marges i vinyes del nostre passat" (nº 35, December-2017)
-Cervelló in Wikipedia

Jose Antonio Jiménez Ruiz, 26 December 2022