Green on top and blue below, with the green in a third and the blue in the remaining two thirds: the flag of Bárcena de Cicero.
Every fact about the flag, each with what it means.
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It is a rectangular field with a 2:3 ratio divided into two horizontal stripes: green on top and blue below.
Each element and how many of the 1,390 flags in the catalogue carry it. In yellow, the rarest.
How it was born, how it has changed and what it means.
The flag of Bárcena de Cicero is a field divided into two horizontal stripes: green on top and blue below. It carries no figure at all.
Bárcena de Cicero is a municipality in the autonomous community of Cantabria. Its flag is one of the symbols of the municipality, alongside its coat of arms.
The two stripes are not equal: the green takes up the upper third and the blue the remaining two thirds.
No earlier versions are documented.
Green
the upper stripe, a third of the height.
Blue
the lower stripe, two thirds of the height.
Separation
a straight horizontal line, with no border or ornaments.
No figures
no coat of arms, no border, no other figure.
Almost all two-stripe flags split them in half. Here the green takes up a third and the blue two thirds, so the smaller colour sits on top, against the flagpole.
The flag of Bárcena de Cicero carries neither the municipal coat of arms nor any other figure. It is only two colours and a straight line, the simplest design possible.
With two thirds of the surface, blue is the real colour of the flag. The green works as a head band, not as an equivalent stripe.
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Text based on the article “Bandera de Bárcena de Cicero” from the Spanish Wikipedia, published under the licence CC BY-SA 4.0.
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Flag image: Nethunter, Wikimedia Commons · Public domain.
