Flag of the province of Granada

Green, with the pomegranate coat of arms, symbol of the city and of the old kingdom: the flag of the Provincial Council of Granada has been official since 2008.

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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: 200826 February 2008 · 18 years ago
Colours: green
red
white
yellow
Reference shades: the official one may vary slightly.
Coat of arms: YesIt carries the coat of arms on the cloth.

Take a closer look

The green cloth
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The coat of arms
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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 in green, with the coat of arms of the Council in the centre. The rule requires the same drawing to be repeated on both sides of the field.

Field: a 2:3 rectangle, evenly green, with no stripes in another colour.
Coat of arms: centred on the front and also on the back.
No divisions: the ground is plain; everything else is the coat of arms.

What it carries

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

Its history in dates

Every date in its story, at a glance.

2008
It has been the official flag of the province since 2008
2013
The flag was updated in 2013, when the arms were modified

The full story

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

The flag of the province of Granada is green and bears in the centre the arms of the Provincial Council, with an open pomegranate surrounded by a border of castles and lions. It has been the official flag of the province since 2008.

How it came about

The Council of Granada approved the flag on 26 February 2008. A resolution of 10 March regulated it and was published in the official gazette of the Andalusian Regional Government on 28 March of the same year. It has a ratio of 2 to 3 and a green corresponding to Pantone 384 C.

Before 2008 the province had been using an unofficial coat of arms for more than thirty years. The flag was updated in 2013, when the arms were modified.

How it has changed

The 2008 flag is the first official one. It was updated in 2013 because of a change in the arms, but the design of the green field with the arms has not changed.

What it means

The flag combines a traditional colour and the arms of the province:

Green
the colour of the field of the flag.
Pomegranate
the fruit that gives the city its name. It is a “canting” coat of arms, that is, one that draws the name.
Border of castles and lions
the symbols of Castile and León, which join the arms of the old kingdom of Granada.
Royal crown
it crowns the arms.

Fun facts

A fruit with a name
In Spanish, granada is the name of a fruit. The arms of Granada draw it so that the name is understood at first sight: it is a “canting coat of arms”.
Thirty years without a rule
The Council used its arms without official recognition for more than thirty years, until the formalisation of 2008.
A confusion in Ceuta
According to FOTW, in 2009 a mural in Ceuta mistakenly used the arms of the Caribbean country of Grenada instead of those of the province.