Municipality of Castro Urdiales (Cantabria, Spain)

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by Blas Delgado

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• Flag Variant or Misinterpretation
• Club Náutico de Castro Urdiales

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• Municipal Flags (Cantabria, Spain)
• Cantabria (Spain)
• Spain

I spent some days in Cantabria in August 2000. Castro Urdiales, very near the regional border with the Basque Country, has a green flag with a white saltire couped i.e. not reaching the corners. The cuts on the saltire's ends are vertical. On the centre is the city's coat-of-arms. I saw this flag at the city hall and somewhere else I cannot remember now.

This is different from Eduardo Panizo's image below, which is simply light green with a yellow saltire — throughout i.e. not couped, heraldically speaking. Eduardo Panizo himself shows the flag as light green with a white saltire and a (missing) centred coat-of-arms at his website.

At the local yacht club I did see however the gr