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Pithiviers (Municipality, Loiret, France)

Flag of Pithiviers - Image by Olivier Touzeau, 23 October 2025

Presentation of Pithiviers
Flag of Pithiviers
- Former flag of Pithiviers
- Ceremonial flag of Pithiviers

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Presentation of Pithiviers

Pithiviers (8,981 inhabitants, 694 ha) is a commune and one of the subprefectures of Loiret.

Pithiviers was a Gallic, then Gallo-Roman, village.
There was a castle in Pithiviers, built around the year 1000, which included the collegiate church of Saint-Georges and the keep commissioned by Héloïse de Pithiviers from the master builder Lanfred. This 33-meter keep dominated the town for nearly 840 years before its demolition in 1837.

Between January 29 and February 8, 1939, more than 2,800 Spanish refugees fleeing the collapse of the Spanish Republic at the hands of Franco's troops arrived in the Loiret region. Faced with the inadequacy of reception facilities in Orléans, 46 rural reception centers were opened, including one in Pithiviers. During World War II, this camp was transformed into an internment camp for Jews and then into a transit camp before their departure for the Nazi extermination camps.

The "Pithiviers" is a puff pastry pie originating from the commune of Pithiviers. It can be savory or sweet, in which case it will be filled with almond cream. The invention of pithiviers dates back to the 17th century with the invention of puff pastry, but the addition of almond cream is believed to date back to a Roman tradition.

Olivier Touzeau, 23 October 2025

Flag of Pithiviers

The flag of Pithiviers is white with logo: photo (2023), photo (2021).
The current logo was adopted in 2021, see the municipal facebook page:

"The logo expresses the connection between Pithiviers' natural topography, with its valleys bordering the town to the north and east (the Egg Valley and the Saint-Jean Valley), and its artificial topography, with the symbolism of the church steeple, the highest point in the town and an element that carries Pithiviers' image far beyond its municipal borders. A close connection is created between these aspects and the toponymy, since the name 'Pithiviers' and the graphic elements are fully intertwined in the basic version of the logo. The sobriety of the logo's base color is directly borrowed from the roofing material of the old town center."

Olivier Touzeau, 23 October 2025

Former flag of Pithiviers

Former flag of Pithiviers- Image by Olivier Touzeau, 23 October 2025

Before 2021, the town used a white flag charged with the previous logo (photo, 2009).

Olivier Touzeau, 23 October 2025

Ceremonial flag of Pithiviers

Former flag of Pithiviers - Image byOlivier Touzeau, 23 October 2025

Besides, a local ceremonial Tricolore is flown on the city hall. It has the letters "RF" and the words "Ville de Pithiviers": photo (2023). Although often seen and sold by flagmakers, flags of this kind have no official legal basis.

Olivier Touzeau, 23 October 2025