The province of Cáceres has no official flag: the usual image is an unofficial proposal that combines the castle and the lion of its coat of arms.
Every fact about the flag, each with what it means.
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It is a rectangular field with a 3:5 ratio split into two equal vertical halves: by the flagpole (the pole it is hoisted on) there is a red ground with a golden castle, and in the other half a white ground with a red lion.
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 province of Cáceres has no official flag. The Provincial Council has confirmed that none exists, and the vexillological sources, the study of flags, record it that way. The image you see here, with a red lion on a crimson ground and a golden castle on white, is an unofficial proposal made from the two main elements of the coat of arms of the province.
What does exist is an official coat of arms, adopted on 21 November 1980. It is divided into two vertical halves. In one there is a golden castle on a red ground and in the other a red lion on a silver ground. The two symbols recall the kingdoms of Castile and of León, and behind the coat of arms there is a green cross of the Order of Alcántara. An open royal crown tops it.
The flag proposal simply distributes those two symbols over two halves of the field, with no official text behind it.
It is not possible to speak of changes: there is no official flag before or after.
Since there is no official flag, all the meaning comes from the coat of arms:
Golden castle
the Kingdom of Castile.
Lion
the Kingdom of León.
Cross of Alcántara
the Order of Alcántara, a military order that played a great part in the area.
Royal crown
the coat of arms bears an open royal crown.
Cáceres is the second largest province in Spain, but its Council only has an official coat of arms, approved in 1980.
The image on this page comes from Wikimedia Commons and is an unofficial elaboration.
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Text based on the article “Cáceres Province flag (FOTW)” from the Spanish Wikipedia, published under the licence CC BY-SA 4.0.
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Flag image: Ewan ar Born, Rastrojo and Offnfopt, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0.
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