Municipality of Barcelona (Catalonia, Spain)

Barcelona Province

Last modified: 2004-08-07 by santiago dotor
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by Jorge Candeias and António Martins
Flag adopted 13 April 2004

• Description
• Flag 1984-1996
• Flag September-December 1996
• Flag 1996-2004
• Variants of the 1996-2004 flag
• Proposal of the Catalan Vexillology Association (ACV)
• Flag variant spotted 1999
• Liceu Opera Theater
• la Caixa Savings Bank

See also:

• Barcelona Province
• Catalonia
• Spain
• Barcelona (Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil)

Other sites:

• The flag of Barcelona (Catalan text only, at the Catalan Vexillology Association website):
  • Institutional flag, including a construction sheet
  • Ceremonial flag, including a construction sheet
  • Ceremonial balcony flag, including a construction sheet
  • Historical Flags
• Campaign against the new symbols of Barcelona (Catalan text only, at the Catalan Society for Genealogy, Heraldry, Sigillography, Vexillology and Nobility website)

The Catalan Association of Vexillology (ACV), whose secretary I am, proposed on 11 April 1984 a design which observes tradition and which is made up of the symbols that the city has always had: the cross of Sant Jordi and the [four] bars of Catalonia.

Jordi Pérez, 2 August 1997

The Catalan Society for Genealogy, Heraldry, Sigillography, Vexillology and Nobility (SCGHSVN) is carrying out a campaign against the new symbols of Barcelona (more details at this webpage). The SCGHSV proposes, as the ACV does, that the flag of Barcelona be a banner-of-arms of the traditional arms o