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Punat is a community south of the city of Krk on the island of the same name. It has
about 1,800 inhabitants. Punat is built around a big natural bay
with a tiny entrance thus providing for an excelently guarded
port. On an ilet in the middle of the bay there is a monastery
that maintained the Croatian scolarship in long years since it
establishent in 9th century.
The coat of arms adopted around 1995 is probably based on a
historical seal or coat of arms. Anyway, it is: Azure Archangel
Michael, armoured or, clead white and caped gules holding in his
dexter an erect sword proper and in his sinister scales also or,
standing on two peninsulas vert issuant from flanks and between
those a sailboat argent. The coat of arms thus pictures the
entrance to the Punat bay protected by St. Michael. The flag is
unknow to me yet, but surely there exist one.
Source: [osg02]
Oštric Goroslav: Monumenta heraldica, izbor iz heraldicke
baštine primorsko-goranske županije, Pomorski i
povijesni muzej Hrvatskog primorja Rijeke, 2002.
Željko Heimer, 20 July 2003
In all the official gazettes issued until now (early August
2003) Punat did not publish any symbol realted document in them.
It seems odd, since Punat does have a historical coat of arms,
and I got reports that the historical coat of arms is used, in
modernized artistic form just as I have posted recently (no
photos, though, but I have little doubt in the reprorts).
Possibly there is some problem with a flag - I have no report on
the flag usage - maybe Punat wanted multycoloured flag while
Ministry insists on monocoloured (pure speculation though).
Željko Heimer, 2 September 2003
The Statutes of 2006 available on web
site of the official gazette of the County describe the coat
of arms and the flag: Statut Opcine Punat, 16.01.2006,
Službene novine Primorsko-goranske županije, br.
2/2006, 17.01.2006.
The flag is blue with the coat of arms bordered golden in the
middle.
Probably the same description was already present in the
previous, 2001 Statutes, but I have no text of it (it was
published in the gezette nr. 24/01, amended in 28/01 and 8/05).
Željko Heimer, 16 August 2006
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image by Željko Heimer, 20 July 2003