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Cienfuegos (Cuba)

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by Blas Delgado Ortiz, 6 November 2001



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I found at <www.cienfuegos.cu> the flag of Cienfuegos City. Info in Spanish as follows:
"Fue disenada, pintada y bordada por la primera poetisa nacida en Cienfuegos, Clotilde del Carmen Rodríguez López, para su amigo Germán Barrios Houard, cuando los cienfuegueros secundaron la guerra de Yara en febrero de 1868.
Está formada por tres franjas verticales, azul la primera de ellas, blanca la segunda y roja la tercera, como las de la bandera francesa, recordando el origen galo de Fernandina de Jagua.
Pero, sobre este fondo tricolor, tiene algunos símbolos que las diferencian: En la franja azul, una cruz equilátera blanca que recuerda la religión cristiana; en la blanca, el escudo local y en la derecha aparecen tres triángulos rojos con una estrella blanca en el centro, didimulados por dos blancos que los flanquean."
Falko Schmidt, 26 October 2001

The Homeland (Cuba) was under the cruelest Spanish colonial repression, when beginnings of 1869, the Cienfueguerian Patriot and Poetess Clotilde del Carmen Rodriguez Matamoros, well-known as "La Hija del Damujì" (Daughter of Damují) designed, painted and embroidered the flag of Cienfuegos, with the noble intention to give it to the members of the Revolutionary Council, which they were conspiring and disponing to support the insurrection would be leaded by Carlos Manuel de Cèspedes, on October 10th, 1868.   Our local flag is formed by three vertical stripes; blue first of them (something narrower than the other two), white the second one, and red the third one. That is to say, same colo