A red field with the coat of arms of the Provincial Council of Ávila, which brings together six comarcas and the capital, and in which even a zebra appears.
Every fact about the flag, each with what it means.
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It is a red field with the coat of arms of the province in the centre. The coat of arms is large and quartered, that is, divided into several pieces. No rule describing the flag is known, only the manuals that list it as traditional.
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 Ávila is a red field with the provincial coat of arms in the centre. It is not a design that can be dated exactly: it is the flag of the Provincial Council of Ávila and is considered the traditional flag of the province.
No adoption date is known. The flag simply places the coat of arms of the province on a red ground, and it is described as an ancient coat of arms. The official manuals of the Spanish administration list it as the traditional flag of the province, but we did not find a decree fixing its date.
No earlier versions are known.
The meaning lies in the coat of arms, divided into quarters. Each one represents a comarca, a judicial district of the province:
Castle
Arenas de San Pedro.
Crow and trees
Piedrahíta.
Knight on horseback
Arévalo.
Zebra
Cebreros.
Three-arched bridge with a boat
El Barco de Ávila.
Central shield
the city of Ávila, with a cathedral and the figure of King Alfonso.
In the quarter of Cebreros there is a zebra, something very unusual in the coats of arms of European provinces.
Each quarter of the coat of arms corresponds to a judicial district of the province, so the coat of arms is almost a small map of the province.
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Text based on the article “Ávila Province flag (FOTW)” from the Spanish Wikipedia, published under the licence CC BY-SA 4.0.
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Flag image: Rastrojo (D•ES), Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0.
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