Aragon (Spain)

Aragón, Autonomous Community of Aragon, Comunidad Autónoma de Aragón

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by Antonio Gutiérrez, taken with permission from the S.E.V. website
Flag adopted 16th August 1982

• Description
• Coat-of-Arms
• Incorrect Variant
• Origins of the Aragonese-Catalan Flag
• Historical Flags
• Local Flags in Aragon
• Provincial Flags:
  • Huesca Province:
  • Saragossa / Zaragoza Province:
  • Teruel Province
• Municipal Flags
• Adolf Durán's Proposal for Eastern Aragon c.1980 (Franja del Ponent)

See also:

• Spain

Other sites:

• Los Símbolos de Aragón (The Symbols of Aragon, Spanish text only) at the Aragon Government Official Website:
  • La Bandera de Aragón (The Flag of Aragon, Spanish text only), source Fatás and Redondo 1995
  • El Escudo de Aragón (The Coat-of-Arms of Aragon, Spanish text only), source Fatás and Redondo 1995
• Las Cortes de Aragón (Aragonese Parliament official website):
  • La Bandera de Aragón (The Flag of Aragon, Spanish text only)
  • El Escudo de Aragón (The Coat-of-Arms of Aragon, Spanish text only)

Description

In 1977 the struggle for autonomy and the discussion about symbols started again. (...) On May 1977 the three diputaciones (provincial governments) adopted a provisional flag (...) which was the first official flag of Aragon.

The current flag was adopted by the democratically elected (1979) Diputación General de Aragón, and was ratified and regulated by Law of 2nd April 1984. It is very similar to