Flag of Catalonia

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Senyera
Flag of Catalonia.svg
Vexillological symbol : Service flag on land?
Aspect ratio: 2: 3
Officially accepted: December 22, 1979

As a flag of Catalonia serves Autonomous Community of the Senyera .

description

Flag of Catalonia

The Senyera has five yellow and four red horizontal stripes of equal width. Usually it is not covered with the coat of arms of Catalonia .

history

The Senyera is said to be one of the oldest flags in the world. It was created in 1159 and goes back to the coat of arms of the county of Barcelona .

Flags of subordinate administrative units

The provinces of Catalonia as well as the counties ( Comarques ) and municipalities have their own flags.

Provinces

Flags of provinces:

  • Variant of the province of Girona

  • Unofficial version of the province of Girona

  • Old flag of the Lleida Province

  • Unofficial variant of the old flag of the province of Tarragona, around 1975

Circles

Examples of flags of circles:

Communities

Examples of municipal flags :

Barcelona city flag

Barcelona city flag

The city of Barcelona has been using a coat of arms banner since April 13, 2004 , which shows the Senyera stripes as a symbol of the Catalan royal family, as well as the St. George's Cross ( Sant Jordi ), which was the original symbol of the city. As early as April 11, 1984, the Catalan Flagship Association (Associació Catalana de Vexil·lologia ACV) proposed it as the city's flag, as it was already in use in the 15th century. It was officially introduced as the city ​​flag on May 3, 1906 , but was later abolished. From 1984 a similar flag was in use, but did not show the historically correct number of four red stripes in the Senyera. On September 25, 1996, a new flag was introduced that no longer contained the Senyera, which led to angry protests from the population. Therefore, the flag was abolished on December 20 of the same year and replaced by a flag that carried the Senyera as a background. A ceremonial flag from 1996 showed a flag that carried the same diamond symbol on a blue background.

More flags of Catalonia

Another variant of the Senyera is the Estelada , which is preferred by the Catalan independence movement. Catalan nationalists use the Estelada Blava , a Senyera with a blue triangle on the leech and a white star, while the Estelada Groga with a yellow triangle and red star is more of the left-wing camp. A version in the style of the flag of the United States ( Estado Aragones ) is also in use.

  • Estelada Blava

  • Estelada Groga even Estelada Vermella called

  • Estado Aragones

Web links

Commons : Flags of Catalonia  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Associació Catalana de Vexil.lologia: Catalunya ( Memento of the original of June 10, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (catal.)  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / personal.telefonica.terra.es
  2. ↑ Flags of the World - Municipality of Barcelona (Catalonia, Spain) (English)