Allier (Department, France): Intermunicipal Authorities

Last modified: 2023-11-18 by ivan sache
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Communautés d'agglomération

Vichy Communauté

Flag of Vichy Communauté - Image by Olivier Touzeau, 19 September 2021

Vichy Communauté (82,759 inhabitants in 2018; 74,130 ha; 39 municipalities) was created in 2017 as the merger of the Communauté d'agglomération de Vichy Val d'Allier and the Communauté de communes de la Montagne bourbonnaise.
The flag of Vichy Communauté (photo) is white with the authority's logo, which was designed short after the establishment of the authority.

Blue and green are the colors of the territory, rich in water, forests and green areas.
The logo is composed of a "V", standing for "Vichy", and slanted lines meaning communication, amplification and connection.
The color gradient conveys an effect of vibration and movement.
The authority's name is written in capital letters, in a contemporary typography.
[ Official website]

Olivier Touzeau & Ivan Sache, 19 September 2021

Communauté d'agglomération montluçonnaise

Flags of Montluçon Communauté - left, since 2020; right, before 2020 and before 2013
Images by Olivier Touzeau, 12 November 2023 and 30 January 2022

Montluçon Communauté (60,617 inhabitants in 2020; 37,780 ha; 21 municipalities) was created in january 2017 with the merger of the Communauté d'agglomération montluçonnaise and the Communauté de communes du Pays de Marcillat-en-Combraille.
The former Communauté d'agglomération montluçonnaise (10 communes, 59.000 inhabitants) had been created in 2000.

A white vertical banner of ratio 1:3 with the logo of the former intermunicipal structure "communauté d'agglomération montluçonnaise" could be observed flown together with a banner with logo of Montluçon until 2019 (photo, 2019; photo, 2017; photo, 2016).
Before 2013, 2:3 flags could be seen, white with the logo (photo, 2011).

Olivier Touzeau, 30 January 2022

A new logo was adopted in october 2021, and the current banner has the current logo on white background (photo, 2022).

Olivier Touzeau, 12 November 2023