Coat-of-Arms (Spain)

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by Antonio Gutiérrez, taken with permission from the S.E.V. website
Coat-of-arms adopted 19th December 1981

• Blazon
• Description
• Colour Specifications
• Red vs. Purple Lions
• Spanish National Badges
• History of the Spanish Arms

See also:

• Royal Flags (for the coat-of-arms as used on those flags) (Spain)
• Lesser Coat-of-Arms 1785-1931 (used on ensigns and rank flags) (Spain)
• Arms of the Two Sicilies (for images of the old escutcheons)
• Heraldic Concepts
• Spain

Other sites:

• Heraldry in Spain at Heraldica, François Velde's excellent heraldry website
• Heraldica Española (Spanish Heraldry, Spanish text only) by José María Valladolid
• Heraldica Oficial (Civic Heraldry, Spanish text only) by José María Valladolid
• Spanish Chivalric Orders:
  • Military Order of Alcántara
  • Military Order of Calatrava
  • Military Order of Montesa
  • Military Order of Santiago

This is the official description of the Spanish coat-of-arms (Law 33/1981, October 5th 1981), taken from the Manual del Estado Español by Editorial Lama:

Artículo 1º. El Escudo de España es cuartelado y entado en punta. En el primer cuartel, de gules o rojo, un castillo de oro, almenado, aclarado en azur o azul y mazonado de sable negro. En el segundo, de plata, un león rampante, de púrpura, linguado, uñado, armado de gules o rojo. En el cuarto, de gules o rojo, una cadena de oro, puesta en cruz, aspa y orla, cargada en el centro de una esmeralda de su color. Entado de plata, una granada al natural, rajada de gules o rojo tallada y hojada de dos hojas de sinople o verde.

Acompañado de dos columnas, de plata, con base y capite