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Flag of El Burgo de Ebro

Blue and red, with the lion of Zaragoza and the cross of St George on the coat of arms: that is the flag of El Burgo de Ebro, a town in Zaragoza on the Ebro.

Flag of El Burgo de Ebro
Coat of arms
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The flag, in figures

Every fact about the flag, each with what it means.

Proportions
2:33 wide for every 2 high. 989 flags in the catalogue share it.
Properties
Normal flagFIAV symbol: the form of the flag.
Use
CivilFIAV symbol: who may fly the flag.
Adopted
19881988 · 38 years ago
Colours
  • blue
  • red
Reference shades: the official one may vary slightly.
Coat of arms
YesIt carries the coat of arms on the cloth.
Origin
Coat of arms of El Burgo de Ebro
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Take a closer look

  1. The two stripes

  2. 1

    The lion

  3. 2

    The cross of Saint George

  4. 3

    The monogram of Mary

  5. 4

    The royal crown

How it is described

The flag in the words of vexillology and heraldry.

Vexillological description

It is a rectangular field with a 2:3 ratio divided into two vertical stripes: blue next to the flagpole and red over the rest. The red one is twice as long as the blue. On top it carries the coat of arms of the municipality.

Blue stripe
a third of the length of the flag.
Red stripe
the other two thirds.
Coat of arms
divided in two. On the left, a crowned golden lion on red; on the right, the red cross of St George on silver. Below, the monogram of Mary in gold on blue, and above it an open royal crown.

What it carries

Each element and how many of the 1,390 flags in the catalogue carry it. In yellow, the rarest.

The full story

How it was born, how it has changed and what it means.

El Burgo de Ebro is a town in the province of Zaragoza, on the banks of the Ebro. Its flag has two vertical stripes, blue and red, and the municipal coat of arms on top, with a crowned lion and the red cross of St George.

How it came about

The coat of arms and the flag were approved in 1988, and the approval was published in the Boletín Oficial de Aragón on 24 August of that year. The coat of arms, according to the official compilation of symbols of the province, is based on the historical tradition of the town.

How it has changed

It has not changed since 1988.

What it means

  • Golden lion on red

    it is the first quarter of the coat of arms of the city of Zaragoza.

  • Cross of St George

    the town had a hermitage dedicated to this saint.

  • Monogram of Mary

    the letters of the Virgin Mary, in gold on blue.

Fun facts

  1. A lion borrowed from Zaragoza

    The crowned lion in the left half of the coat of arms is not the town’s own: it is that of the city of Zaragoza, its large neighbour.

  2. The same cross as London

    The red cross on white of the coat of arms is that of St George, the same one carried by the flag of London and that of Barcelona. It is here because of a hermitage of the town dedicated to the saint.

Location

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Municipality facts

How many people live there, how big it is and what borders it.

Population (2025)
2,750
Area
24.86 km²
pop./km²
111
Elevation
183 m

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  1. 1. Which one is the flag of El Burgo de Ebro?

  2. 2. Which of these elements appears on the flag?

  3. 3. What are the proportions (height:width) of the flag?

  4. 4. In which year was the current flag adopted?

Sources

Text based on the article “Escudos y banderas de Aragón. Zaragoza y provincia (El Periódico de Aragón, 2016)” from the Spanish Wikipedia, published under the licence CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Credits

Flag image: Escudo_de_El_Burgo_de_Ebro.svg: user:Willtron derivative work: ecelan (talk), Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0.

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