A red field with a heavily loaded coat of arms: the flag of the province of Ciudad Real belongs to the Provincial Council, but it seems barely to be used.
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 —the field is the cloth of the flag —with a 2:3 ratio, in a single red, with the coat of arms of the province in the centre.
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 Ciudad Real is a red field with the coat of arms of the Provincial Council in the centre. It is a flag with one curious detail: according to the FOTW website, it seems the Council does not use it, neither inside nor outside its building.
The flag is the provincial coat of arms on a red ground, and no approval date is known. The coat of arms brings together the arms of ten capitals of judicial districts of the province, with many figures repeated, such as the Cross of Calatrava and several castles.
No earlier documented versions are known. In 1988, the heraldist Ramón José Maldonado y Cocat, the same one who designed the flag of Castilla-La Mancha, proposed a simpler design for the coat of arms, but the Council does not seem to have adopted it.
All the meaning is in the coat of arms, which is a mosaic of the cities of the province:
Cross of Calatrava
the Order of Calatrava, a very powerful military order in La Mancha, repeated in several quarters.
Castles
they appear in several quarters, alongside other local symbols.
Ten quarters
each one gathers the arms of the capital of a judicial district of the province.
Maldonado y Cocat criticised the coat of arms for including only the capitals and not the whole districts, for repeating too many figures and for having a French shield shape instead of the traditional Spanish one.
According to the information gathered by FOTW, the flag does not seem to be used at the Council’s headquarters.
The coat of arms combines the arms of ten judicial district capitals.
Test what you have read about the flag of Province of Ciudad Real.
Text based on the article “Ciudad Real 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.
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