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The city of Stari Grad is on the Hvar island, about 40 km
south of Split in the Split-Dalmatia
County. It has under 3,000 inhabtants, less then 2,000 in the
city itself. It should not be confuzed with Starigrad (Paklenica)
in the Zadar county and an other Starigrad near Koprivnica, and
therefore it is often referd to as "Stari Grad na
Hvaru". Untill 1997 it had the community status.
The coat of arms pictures the city within walls and with three
towers in blue shield on a green hill. This is a historical coat
of arms, but until now I have not found anything firm about it
previous history.
The flag is white with the yellow bordered coat of arms in the
middle.
There is also the ceremonial flag, red three tailed gonfalon with
the coat of arms in the middle, the name inscribed above in two
arches and three different floral ornaments in three tails at the
bottom - an olive, a vine and a figue.
As we have seen with some other cities using the white flag, the
ceremonial flag do not follow the same colour for it base.
Possibly due that the white ceremonial flag would be sustainable
to stain to much? Or simply the golden ornaments would not stand
out as good on the white...
Sources: Stari Grad <www.stari-grad-faros.hr>
(07.10.2003). Information from Tomislav Šipek following HTV,
10.2003.
Željko Heimer, 4 August 2004
The symbols were designed by the Heraldic
Art d.o.o. from Rijeka.
Željko Heimer, 3 November 2007
image by Željko Heimer, 4 August 2004
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image by Željko Heimer, 4 August 2004