Green, with the coat of arms of the twelve comarcas and a border of castles and lions: the flag of the Provincial Council of Cádiz has been official since 2009.
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 rectangular field with a 2:3 ratio, green, with the provincial coat of arms in the centre and a vora, that is a border, that goes all around the field.
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 coat of arms in the centre is older: it was adopted in 1886 and modified in 1927
The plenum of the Council approved the flag on 19 November 2008
A decree made it official on 12 January 2009 and it was published in the Andalusian official…
How it was born, how it has changed and what it means.
The flag of the province of Cádiz is green, with the provincial coat of arms in the centre and a border of alternating castles and lions. It is the official flag of the Provincial Council of Cádiz and one of the most eye-catching in Spain for the number of figures it gathers together.
The plenum of the Council approved the flag on 19 November 2008. A decree made it official on 12 January 2009 and it was published in the Andalusian official bulletin on 23 January 2009. It has a ratio of 2:3 and a green corresponding to Pantone 348 C.
The coat of arms in the centre is older: it was adopted in 1886 and modified in 1927. The Council recovered it for its traditional use when it approved the flag.
No earlier documented versions of the flag are known. The current one, from 2008, is the first official.
Each part of the flag has a clear function:
Green ground
the colour chosen to represent the province.
Border of castles and lions
the symbols of Castile and of León, which link Cádiz to the old kingdoms of the Crown of Castile.
Provincial coat of arms
formed by the symbols of the twelve judicial districts of the province, with references to Cádiz, Jerez de la Frontera or Algeciras.
Hercules
a figure from mythology, considered the founder of the city of Cádiz, who appears in the centre of the coat of arms.
Columns and the motto Plus Ultra
the columns of Hercules and the motto “beyond”.
The coat of arms in the centre brings together symbols from the twelve judicial districts of the province, so it is almost a heraldic map of Cádiz.
The coat of arms was adopted in 1886 and modified in 1927. The Council rehabilitated it, that is, it used it officially again, when it created the flag.
According to mythology, the hero Hercules founded the city of Cádiz. That is why he appears in the centre of the provincial coat of arms.
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Text based on the article “Cádiz Province flag (FOTW)” from the Spanish Wikipedia, published under the licence CC BY-SA 4.0.
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Flag image: Ulaidh, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0.
