Blue, with the coat of arms of Badajoz and its column with the motto «Plus Ultra»: an unofficial provincial flag, heir to the coat of arms of 1868.
Every fact about the flag, each with what it means.
Normal flagFIAV symbol: the form of the flag.
CivilFIAV symbol: who may fly the flag.YesIt carries the coat of arms on the cloth.The flag in the words of vexillology and heraldry.
It is a blue field with the coat of arms of the province in the centre. It has no official approval: it is the banner used by the Provincial Council, with the coat of arms adopted in 1868, painted on a blue ground.
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 Badajoz is a blue field with the provincial coat of arms in the centre. It is a simple flag, used by the Provincial Council, but it has no official approval: the Ministry of Public Administrations considers it unofficial.
The flag is the coat of arms of the province placed on a blue ground, the same blue as the field of the coat of arms. The coat of arms was adopted on 27 October 1868 and is described as: a silver column with a scroll bearing the motto «Plus Ultra» and a red lion rampant beside it. We did not find an agreement fixing the date of the flag.
No earlier versions are known.
The meaning lies in the coat of arms:
Blue ground
the colour of the field of the coat of arms.
Silver column
the column of Hercules, which according to legend marked the end of the known world.
Motto «Plus Ultra»
it means “beyond” and is the motto of Charles I of Spain.
Red lion
it accompanies the column, standing.
Charles I adopted «Plus Ultra» (“beyond”) as his personal motto, turning the old warning «Non plus ultra», “nothing beyond”, inside out. According to tradition that warning was written on the columns of Hercules, in the Strait of Gibraltar.
According to the list of the Ministry of Public Administrations, the flag of the province of Badajoz has no official status, although it is used as the banner of the Provincial Council.
Test what you have read about the flag of Province of Badajoz.
Text based on the article “Badajoz Province flag (FOTW)” from the Spanish Wikipedia, published under the licence CC BY-SA 4.0.
Sources consulted:
Flag image: HansenBCN, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0.
Other flag
Europa
Other flag
Europa
Other flag
Europa
Other flag
Europa
Other flag
Europa
Other flag
América del Sur
