White and light blue with the coat of arms in the centre: Saint John the Baptist, a stone castle and a bunch of green grapes.
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It is a rectangular field with a 2:3 ratio, divided into two vertical halves: white by the flagpole and light blue at the fly side.
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The flag of Arganda del Rey is a field divided into two vertical halves, white and light blue, with the coat of arms of the town in the centre. The coat of arms is divided in three parts.
Arganda del Rey is a municipality in the Community of Madrid. Its flag dates from 1996.
The three figures of the coat of arms are Saint John the Baptist, a three-towered stone castle and a bunch of grapes. The saint takes up the whole flagpole part; the castle and the grapes share the fly side.
No earlier versions are documented.
White
the half by the flagpole.
Light blue
the half towards the fly side.
Coat of arms
in the centre, over the join. Spanish in shape, rounded at the bottom, with a closed royal crown on top.
Flagpole part
blue, with Saint John the Baptist standing, with a cross-shaped staff and a scroll, and a lamb beside him.
Upper right part
red, with a three-towered stone castle.
Lower right part
silver, with a bunch of green grapes and its leaves.
The coat of arms is not quartered: the flagpole part is wide and takes up the whole height, and the fly part is divided into two squares, red above and silver below. The human figure keeps the large space and the other two share the small one.
Saint John the Baptist appears with his cross-shaped staff and, beside him, the Lamb. It is the traditional attribute of the saint, and without it the figure would be hard to identify: the lamb is what makes him John and not some other saint.
The two halves of the field —white and light blue— are completely empty. All the figures are in the coat of arms, none is repeated over the ground. It is the opposite of flags that translate the arms into loose figures.
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Text based on the article “Bandera de Arganda del Rey” from the Spanish Wikipedia, published under the licence CC BY-SA 4.0.
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Flag image: Wikiarganda, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0.
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