Five flags in one: the image of Pensacola recalls that the flags of Spain, France, Great Britain, the United States and the Confederacy have flown over this city of Florida.
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 1:2 ratio which brings together, in four parts, the five flags that have flown over the city.
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.
Pensacola, in the west of Florida, calls itself ‘the city of five flags’. This image brings them all together: France’s, Castile’s, the United States’, the British one and that of the Confederate States.
Pensacola has changed hands several times: it was Spanish, French, British, Confederate during the civil war and American. That is why the city displays five flags at once on its public buildings, one for each government.
The Flags of the World portal, which collects flags from all over the world, knows of no official flag of the city. The image on this page is a composition with those five flags.
The composition has not changed, but the way of displaying the five flags has. In 2000 the city replaced the Confederate battle flag with the first national flag of the Confederacy, more faithful to history, and later withdrew it and put up the flag of Florida in its place.
Fleurs-de-lis
France.
Castles and lions
Spain, with the arms of Castile and León.
Stripes and stars
the United States.
British flag
the United Kingdom.
First Confederate flag
the Confederate States.
In 2000 the city replaced the Confederate battle flag with the first flag of the Confederacy, because the battle flag was not used until after the Confederate troops left Pensacola in 1862.
The city’s new logo has five parts, in tribute to the five flags.
Test what you have read about the flag of Pensacola (Florida).
Text based on the article “Pensacola, Florida (U.S.) — Flags of the World” from the Spanish Wikipedia, published under the licence CC BY-SA 4.0.
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