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Lumbarda is located at the south-eastern end of the island of Korčula, 130 km north-west of Dubrovnik. It has 1,200 inhabitants in a single town.
The region was settled in the 4th century BC, as a Greek colony from which tombstones are preserved; the most notable is a psefizma, an inscribed stone tablet. Since the 15th century, numerous vacation residences, fortified with towers and loopholes, have been built for the Dubrovnik and Korčula civic nobility and merchants; Lumbarda is still today an important tourist resort.
The municipality was established in 1997 by secession from the Town of Korčula.
Željko Heimer, 16 December 2006
The symbols of Lumbarda are described in the Municipality Statutes Statut Općine Lumbarda, adopted on 23 April 1998 by the Municipality Council and published on 30 December 1998 in the County official gazette Službeni glasnik Dubrovačko-neretvanske županije, No. 9.
The flag is described as "a thought-out system of blue and golden-yellow".
Željko Heimer, 16 December 2006
The coat of arms is described as "a thought-out system of these symbols and colours": white (stone, the psefizma tablet), blue (sea - sky), golden-yellow (sun - grapevine stock grk), green (pine - olive).
Željko Heimer, 16 December 2006
A local commercial website has an article on the carnival festivities held in 2009. There like in many other places in Croatia, during the week preciding the Ash Wednesday, the cermonial "independence" is proclaimed as part of the carnival festivities, and a local republic is being acted; usually, the local Mayor is "make-believe" publicly deposed and has to grant the "keys of the town" to masked actors. As part of the 2009 carnival, the "independent" Republic of Lumbarda was being played and a flag was devised for it.
If you compare it with the actual determenations of the Statutes, it is very much the most sensible representation to what the writer of the Statutes might have been meaning. The white chief of the "coat of arms" represents the psefizma tablet, in the chief is inscribed "Let it be with [good] luck", which are the opening words of the original 4th century inscription. The inverted embowed pall represents the existing path to the beaches of Lumbarda, with all the other symbols mentioned in the description of the Statutes, the bunch of grapes, blue, green etc.Željko Heimer, 16 June 2011