A town in Puerto Rico founded by a Catalan: that is why its flag repeats twice the coat of arms of Barcelona on the blue of the Atlantic.
Every fact about the flag, each with what it means.
Normal flagFIAV symbol: the form of the flag.
CivilFIAV symbol: who may fly the flag.YesIt carries the coat of arms on the cloth.The flag in the words of vexillology and heraldry.
It is a rectangular field with a 2:3 ratio divided into four quarters, like the coat of arms of the municipality.
Each element and how many of the 1,390 flags in the catalogue carry it. In yellow, the rarest.
Every date in its story, at a glance.
The town was founded in 1881 by the Catalan Bonocio Llensa Feliú
He put the old coat of arms of the municipality onto cloth, and the Municipal Assembly approved…
How it was born, how it has changed and what it means.
Barceloneta is a municipality on the north coast of Puerto Rico. Its flag has four squares: two blue and two that copy the coat of arms of Barcelona, with its red cross and its stripes.
The town was founded in 1881 by the Catalan Bonocio Llensa Feliú, who gave it the name of the seafaring district of Barcelona because it reminded him of his homeland.
The flag was designed by Roberto Biascochea Lota, heraldic adviser to the Puerto Rican Institute of Culture. He put the old coat of arms of the municipality onto cloth, and the Municipal Assembly approved it on 31 May 1979.
It has not changed since 1979.
It is a reminder of the Catalans who founded the town:
Red cross on white
the cross of St George, patron of Catalonia, which is on the coat of arms of Barcelona.
Red and yellow bars
those of the flag of Catalonia, also on that coat of arms.
Blue
the Atlantic Ocean, which washes the municipality.
On the coat of arms, the blue quarters carried branches of guajana, the flower of the sugarcane. When it was put onto the flag they were removed.
Barceloneta is not called that after Barcelona, but after La Barceloneta, the district next to the port of the Catalan city.
The municipality is called Ciudad de las Piñas, Ciudad Industrial and Pueblo de Sixto Escobar, after the boxer who was born there and was the first Puerto Rican world champion.
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Text based on the article “Barceloneta (Puerto Rico), Flags of the World” from the Spanish Wikipedia, published under the licence CC BY-SA 4.0.
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Flag image: Zscout370 at English Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons · Public domain.
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