A field divided into red and blue with the coat of arms of the tower and the lions: the flag of the Council of Lugo was approved in 2006 and almost nobody knew what it looked like.
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It is a rectangular field with a 2:3 ratio divided into two equal horizontal halves, one red and one blue, with the coat of arms of the province in the centre.
Each element and how many of the 1,390 flags in the catalogue carry it. In yellow, the rarest.
Every date in its story, at a glance.
The Council approved it on 13 July 1984 and the Xunta de Galicia confirmed it by decree on 3 April…
It is the flag of the Provincial Council and it is very young: it was approved in 2006
How it was born, how it has changed and what it means.
The flag of the province of Lugo is divided into two horizontal halves, one red and one blue, with the coat of arms of the province in the centre. It is the flag of the Provincial Council and it is very young: it was approved in 2006, more than twenty years after the coat of arms it carries.
The coat of arms came first. The Council approved it on 13 July 1984 and the Xunta de Galicia confirmed it by decree on 3 April 1986. The flag took much longer: the plenum of the Council approved it on 30 October 2006, on the proposal of the Partido Popular and with the support of the PSOE. The BNG voted against it because it considered it unnecessary. It was raised in public for the first time the following day.
There is no record of a decree regulating it being published, either in the provincial bulletin or in the official gazette of Galicia, so its formal situation is not very clear.
It has not changed since 2006.
The flag has no official explanation, but its elements come from the coat of arms:
Blue and red
the colours of the two halves of the provincial coat of arms.
Chalice with a host and two angels
the blue part of the coat of arms.
Tower between two lions
the red part of the coat of arms. The tower recalls the walls of Lugo, of Roman origin, and the lion is a symbol of the courage with which the city defended itself in the sieges.
The day after it was approved, La Voz de Galicia described it as “blue and red”, and that phrase was taken as an order from top to bottom. Flag enthusiasts argued for years about which of the two colours went on top; according to FOTW, high-resolution photos point to red on top, though some images in circulation show it the other way round.
At the 2006 plenum, the BNG opposed creating a provincial flag because it considered it unnecessary.
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Flag image: Ulaidh, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0.
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