Angers (Municipality, Maine-et-Loire, France)

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Flags of Angers - Images by Olivier Touzeau, 17 April 2021

• Presentation of Angers
• Flag of Angers
• Cercle de la Voile d'Angers

See also:

• France
• Maine-et-Loire (Department, France)

Presentation of Angers

The municipality of Angers (151,056 inhabitants in 2014; 4,270 ha) is the capital of Anjou.

The fortified castle built by Blanche of Castile and her son Louis IX (St. Louis) in 1231, has 17 massive towers of 40-50 m in jeight, while the total length of its walls exceeds one kilometer. Now a museum, the castle keeps beautiful tapestries from the 14th (Apocalypse tapestry) to the 17th (Penthesilea tapestry) centuries.
The former St. John Hospital keeps a collection of modern tapestries (The Song of the World) by Jean Lurçat (1892-1966).

Ivan Sache, 24 April 2001

Flags of Angers

The flag of Angers (photo) is vertically divided red-blue, charged in the center with the municipal coat of arms, "Gules a key argent in pale a chief azure two fleurs-de-lis or", fimbriated in white.
The municipality also uses a flag horizontally divided blue-red (1:2), charged in the center with the white “A” featured on the municipal logo (photo, photo).

Ivan Sache & Olivier Touzeau, 17 April 2021

Cercle de la Voile d'Angers