Guixers

GUIXERS

Official blazon
Catalan	Escut caironat: de sinople, 6 rocs d'argent posats 1.2.3. formant una muntanya Per timbre una corona mural de poble.
English	blazon wanted

Origin/meaning

The arms were granted on September 2, 1992.

The arms are canting: the silver chess-rooks form a mountain of gypsum (Guixers reminds "guix", gypsum in Catalan). In fact, in the municipality there are gypsum quarries.

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