Ribera d'Urgellet

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RIBERA D'URGELLET

Official blazon

Escut caironat truncat: primer. de sinople; segon. escacat d'or i de sable; ressaltant sobre la partició una faixa ondada d'argent. Per timbre una corona mural de vila.

Origin/meaning

These arms have been officially granted on 12th March 1991.

This Pyrenean municipality was created in 1968 when the previous ones of Arfa, La Parròquia d'Hortó and Tost merged with El Pla de Sant Tirs, the present chief town; all these villages are placed in the Segre valley, in the region named Urgellet or Alt Urgell, and belonged since medieval times to the county of Urgell. The arms are canting: they show the river Segre ("ribera" in Catalan) between the partition Sinople, representing the woods and fields in the municipality, and the chequy Or and Sable of the counts of Urgell.