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Makarska, Croatia

Split-Dalmatia County

images by Željko Heimer, 13 April 2023

Flag of Makarska
Coat of arms of Makarska
Table flag of Makarska
Sailing Club "Bura" (Jedriličarski klub "Bura")

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Flag of Makarska

The symbols of Makarska, adopted on 12 August 1993, are described in the current Town Statutes Statut Grada Makarske, adopted on 4 August 2009 by the Town Assembly, and published in the Town official gazette Glasnik Grada Makarske, No. 8. This repeats the 2002 and 2007 Statutes, and, probably, some earlier Statutes.

The symbols were designed by Ljubo Urlić, an architect from Makarska.

The flag (municipal website) is in proportions 1:2, blue, and further described in Article 8 of the Statutes as follows: "On its front side, closer to the hoist, is set the coat of arms of Makarska. The coat of arms is divided from the blue field with a thin silver line.
Literally, the coat of arms is to be set only on the obverse of the flag and not on the reverse. I guess that this detail is mainly ignored in practice.

Željko Heimer, 22 November 2013

images by Željko Heimer, 13 April 2023

The flag is blue with a coat of arms next to a spear on the front. On the reverse, only a blue field without a coat of arms is prescribed! The vertical table flag has the name of the city written on the bottom.

https://tomislavcity.com/makarska-otkriven-spomenik-postrojbi-kobac-u-cijem-je-sastavu-bio-i-duvnjak-tomislav-skocibusic/

Tomislav Šipek, 13 April 2023

Coat of arms of Makarska

image by Željko Heimer, 13 April 2023

The coat of arms (municipal website) is "Gules a hand argent issuant from dexter holding a sabre and in sinister chief a mullet of the same". It is described in Article 7 of the Statutes in a rather longish fashion with a lots of repetition and explaining of its rather obvious symbolism. It is the modernization of the coat of arms shown in the Fojnica Armorial (16th century) and preserved in a stone carving on the Venetian fountain (17th century) in the middle of the town.

Željko Heimer, 22 November 2013

The coat of arms is in a red field a silver flexed hand issuing from the right edge and holding a saber, and in the upper left corner a silver six-pointed star. The coat of arms is a modernization of the coat of arms of Makarska shown in the Fojnica coat of arms from the 16th century, and it is also found on the relief on the Venetian fountain from the 17th century. st., on Kačićev Square in the center of the city. It is also used in the seals of the Municipality of Makarsko-primorska from the middle of the 17th century. century, and in its modern form from 1866. The color red is said to symbolize blood and life, the star light and victory, and the right hand with a saber victory, courage and strength.

Tomislav Šipek, 13 April 2023

Table flag of Makarska

image by Željko Heimer, 23 November 2013

The vertical table flag, not described in the Statutes, contains the name of the town in its lower part.

Željko Heimer, 10 January 2011

Sailing Club "Bura"( Jedriličarski klub "Bura")

image by Željko Heimer, 27 June 2001

"Bura" is the Croatian name of the north-eastern wind blowing from the coast towards sea in wintertime, very strong and feared by sailors.
The burgee of the club (website) is a triangular light blue burgee with a yellow arrowhead and the coat of arms of Makarska at hoist. The coat of arms is represented after the one preserved in a stone carving on a square in Makarska, here in blue and yellow.

Željko Heimer, 12 March 2001