Green, with the arms of Saint Ferdinand and a collar of ten town shields: the flag of the Seville Provincial Council dates from the twenties and has been official since 2014.
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It is a rectangular field with a 2:3 ratio in green, with the arms of the Provincial Council in the centre, surrounded by ten small shields.
Each element and how many of the 1,390 flags in the catalogue carry it. In yellow, the rarest.
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Saint Ferdinand seated: the king who conquered Seville in 1248
The design is much older than its approval: it goes back to the late 1920s
The Directorate General of Local Administration of the Andalusian Regional Government recognised…
How it was born, how it has changed and what it means.
The flag of the province of Seville is a green field with the arms of the Provincial Council in the centre. On the arms there is King Saint Ferdinand seated, with two saints at the sides, and below it the word NO8DO. A collar of ten small shields surrounds the whole ensemble.
The design is much older than its approval: it goes back to the late 1920s. However, it was not official until almost a hundred years later. The Directorate General of Local Administration of the Andalusian Regional Government recognised it by a resolution of 17 December 2014, published on 30 December 2014 in the Andalusian official gazette. In practice, that resolution put on record a symbol that was already in use.
It has not changed in any documented way since its origin.
The flag has no official explanation of the colour. This is what its arms show:
Green
the colour of the ground, in a specific tone, Pantone 3415 C.
Saint Ferdinand seated
the king who conquered Seville in 1248, accompanied by Saint Isidore and Saint Leander standing, two saints of the city.
NO8DO
the motto of Seville, which appears below the arms.
Collar of ten shields
each one is the arms of a municipality of the province.
Although the design comes from the late twenties, until December 2014 it had no official resolution fixing it.
The 2014 resolution says that the arms go centred on both sides of the flag, and sets the official sizes, from 1.50 by 1.00 metres up to 3.50 by 2.25 metres.
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Flag image: Apj (Taller de Heráldica y Vexilología in the Spanish Wikipedia ), Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0.
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