Crikvenica (The Coast-Gorski Kotar County, Croatia)

Grad Crikvenica

Last modified: 2003-08-30 by dov gutterman
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by Zeljko Heimer

• Overview
• Vertical Flag
• Coat of Arms

See also:

• The Coast - Gorski Kotar County
• Croatia

Other Sites:

• Collection of Croatian Local Flags at FAME

Overview

The coat of arms is blue with a house over a bridge with an embattled tower to the right and a bell-tower to the left all silver/white, from which is issuing a golden palm tree. The flag is yellow with the coat of arms in the middle. Adopted: around 1995 (?).
Source: Flag for hoisting on streets of Crikvenica, 20x40 cm, 1997.
Zeljko Heimer

The decisions in the official gazette regarding the flag of Crikvenica:
- Odluka o osnivanju Odbora za grb i zastavu, Službene novine Županije primorsko-goranske, br. 2/95.
- Odluka o grbu i zastavi Grada Crikvenice, 03.08.1995, Službene novine Županije primorsko-goranske, br. 12/96, 10. svibnja 1996.
- Odluka o uvjetima uporabe grba i zastave Grada Crikvenice, 03.08.1998, Službene novine Primorsko-goranske županije, br. 17/98, 21. kolovoza 1998.

The first one establishes a commission to prepaire for the adoption of the symbols.
The 1995 decision adopts the symbols (the buildings in the Coat of Arms represent the old fortified city of Crikvenica, so called 'kaštel'). The decision prescribes that it shall be published in the gazette after the ministry approves the design, so the publicatio