Murcia Region (Spain)

Murcia Region Autonomous Community, Comunidad Autónoma de la Región de Murcia

Last modified: 2004-12-29 by santiago dotor
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by Antonio Gutiérrez, taken with permission from the S.E.V. website
Flag adopted 26th March 1979

• Description
• Coat-of-Arms
• Former Flag of Murcia Province
• History
• Municipal Flags:
  • City of Cartagena
  • City of San Javier
  • City of San Pedro del Pinatar

See also:

• Spain

Other sites:

• Símbolos (Spanish text only) at the Murcia Region Official Website, including downloadable files

The flag of the Región de Murcia is red with four yellow castles (2+2) in the canton, and seven yellow crowns (1+3+2+1) on the lower fly.

Filip Van Laenen and Jordi Pérez, 12 March 1998

The flag of Murcia Region is a banner-of-arms of the arms granted in the early 80's (different from those of Murcia province and city), and the red/crimson colour is probably derived from that of the Cartagena 1873 pendón (banner/flag) which itself is based on the traditional crimson background of Castilian flags.

Santiago Dotor, 4 January 1999

The 7 crowns stand for the seven kingdoms of the Crown of Castile, and the 4 castles are dedicated to Castile and stand for the different characters of the people of Murcia: Inner (Castilian), Mediterranean (Arabic or Bereber?), Eastern (Valencian) and Southern (Andalusian). The castles also remind of the fact that Murcia was frontier area during the Reconquest. The red was Cartagena shade of crimson, because it is the traditional color of the old kingdom of Murcia (though I have seen sometimes this flag with a dark purple field) and as a concession to the separatist area of Cartagena.

Jaume Ollé, 7 January 1999

With permission from the S.E.V. website	According to the Murcia Region Official Website
by Antonio Gutiérrez	by Santiago Do