Melilla coat of arms

Melilla coat of arms

Details
Heraldic shield	green seven-headed hydra
Sign holder	Pillars of Hercules
Motto (motto)	Praefere patriam liberis parentem decet (It is fitting to put the fatherland above one's children)
Other elements	Dragon , gestückter board

The crest Melilla shows in blue two pale-looking Asked golden Henkel baskets with gold-red wattle geschachtem in which two black gezungte green seven-headed Hydra meander up. The eighteen times in red with golden fort and blue door and windows and silver with gold-winning rotgezungten red lion gestückte board everything surrounds; Castles and lions are reminiscent of Castile and León and thus of the conquest of the city by Spain in 1497.

Next to the shield are the silver uncrowned columns of Heracles through which the silver ribbon with the black lettering in capitals : “ Non plus ultra .” Above the shield stands a golden fort on the golden crown and a silver clad man with a red scarf and a dagger holding grows out of the tinned fort tower. A silver ribbon shows the motto “Praefere patriam liberis parentem decet” ( It is fitting to place the fatherland above one's children ) in black letters and capital letters.

The green, red-tongued dragon lies under the coat of arms.

Melilla coat of arms

See also