Red, with the provincial arms and the name of the Provincial Council below: the flag of the province of Tarragona is unofficial and only used on certain occasions.
Every fact about the flag, each with what it means.
YesIt carries the coat of arms on the cloth.The flag in the words of vexillology and heraldry.
It is a plain red field with the provincial arms in the centre and, below them, the name of the Provincial Council written in an arc.
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 arms do have a date: they were adopted by a royal order of 24 March 1928
According to FOTW, the Council has used several designs, all unofficial: around 1970, a flag with…
Even so, the Council has used a red flag with the arms at least since 1975
How it was born, how it has changed and what it means.
The flag associated with the province of Tarragona is a red field with the provincial arms in the centre and, below them, the words “Diputación Provincial de Tarragona”. It is an unofficial flag: it is used, but no rule has approved it, and it has changed appearance several times.
The arms do have a date: they were adopted by a royal order of 24 March 1928. The flag, on the other hand, is later and less clear. According to the FOTW flag portal, an official book from the nineties said that “there is no flag”, only arms. Even so, the Council has used a red flag with the arms at least since 1975, and only at some events.
According to FOTW, the Council has used several designs, all unofficial: around 1970, a flag with the arms covering the whole field (what is called a banner of arms); around 1975, the red one with the arms and the name of the institution; and in the nineties, a banner of arms again. The 1975 version is shown here, the only one for which a free image exists.
Red
the ground, with no official explanation.
Arms
it carries the four red bars on a yellow ground, the symbol of Catalonia, alongside other heraldic elements, under a royal crown.
Lettering “Diputación Provincial de Tarragona”
it says whose flag it is.
The Manual del Estado Español, an official reference book, said that Tarragona had no flag and that only the arms had been approved, in 1928.
Around 1975, the red flag with the name of the Council was only used occasionally, at specific events.
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Flag image: HansenBCN, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0.
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