White with a large red St George’s cross and the coat of arms of the province, which gathers eight comarcas: it is the historical flag of the Provincial Council of Huesca.
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It is a rectangular, white field —the cloth of the flag —crossed in the centre by two red stripes that reach all four edges and form a cross. Over the crossing goes the coat of arms of the province.
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 the province of Huesca is white, with a large red St George’s cross crossing the whole field and the coat of arms of the province in the centre. It is the flag of the Provincial Council of Huesca, and it looks very much like that of the province of Zaragoza.
No adoption date is known. It is a historical flag, which the Manual del Estado Español collects as a traditional symbol of the province. We have not found a decree establishing it, so the most prudent thing is to say that it has no documented official approval.
No earlier documented versions are known.
The flag combines a very ancient cross with a coat of arms that gathers the eight historical comarcas:
Red St George’s cross
the cross of St George, patron of Aragon. This cross also appears on the flag of the Provincial Council of Zaragoza.
Knight on horseback with a lance
in the centre of the coat of arms, a silver knight on a red ground represents the city of Huesca, with the motto “Urbs Victrix Osca”, “Osca, victorious city”.
Patriarchal cross
symbol of Jaca.
Castle
symbol of Fraga.
Crossbow
symbol of Sariñena.
The coat of arms combines the arms of eight historical judicial districts, such as Jaca, Fraga and Sariñena.
The Provincial Council of Huesca uses a flag nearly identical to that of the province of Zaragoza: the same red cross on white, with the coat of arms of each province in the centre.
The motto “Urbs Victrix Osca” appears next to the knight of the coat of arms and means “Osca, victorious city”. Osca is the old name of Huesca.
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Text based on the article “Huesca Province flag (FOTW)” from the Spanish Wikipedia, published under the licence CC BY-SA 4.0.
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Flag image: Willtron, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0.
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