Seven white stars on a crimson red field: the flag of the Community of Madrid draws the Plough over the Sierra de Guadarrama.
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It is a rectangular field —the field is the cloth of the flag —with a 7:11 ratio, quite longer than most, in crimson red, with seven white five-pointed stars in the centre.
Each element and how many of the 1,390 flags in the catalogue carry it. In yellow, the rarest.
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Madrid ↗How it was born, how it has changed and what it means.
The flag of the Community of Madrid is red and bears seven white five-pointed stars in the centre: four above and three below. It is a modern flag, from 1983, but its symbols are very old. Its simplicity makes it easy to recognise.
The Community of Madrid was created in 1983. Until then Madrid had been part of Castile-La Mancha and had no regional flag of its own. The first president of the community, Joaquín Leguina, entrusted the symbols to two people: the poet Santiago Amón, who wrote their definition, and the graphic designer José María Cruz Novillo, who drew it.
To make it they turned to two elements that already had history: the crimson red of the standard of Castile and the seven stars that have appeared for centuries on the coat of arms of the town of Madrid. A law of 23 December 1983 made it official.
The flag has not changed since it was approved in 1983.
The 1983 law explains each element:
Crimson red
the standard of Castile, the old kingdom to which the lands of Madrid belonged.
Seven stars
the main stars of the Plough, the constellation that is seen above the Sierra de Guadarrama. They were already on the coat of arms of the town of Madrid, around the bear and the strawberry tree.
Five points
the five provinces that surround the community: Ávila, Segovia, Guadalajara, Cuenca and Toledo.
José María Cruz Novillo, author of the flag and of the coat of arms of the community, also designed the logos of Correos, Renfe and the fist and rose of the PSOE. He died in 2026, aged 89.
The law fixes a ratio of 7 high by 11 long, a little longer than the usual 2 by 3.
The seven stars surround, on a blue ground, the bear and strawberry tree of the coat of arms of the city of Madrid. The flag took them from there.
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Text based on the article “Bandera de la Comunidad de Madrid” from the Spanish Wikipedia, published under the licence CC BY-SA 4.0.
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Flag image: Varios autores (ver el historial del archivo), Wikimedia Commons · CC0.
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