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City of Toledo (Castile-La Mancha, Spain)

Toledo Province

Last modified: 2004-10-30 by santiago dotor
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[City of Toledo (Toledo Province, Castile-La Mancha, Spain)] 2:3
by Santiago Dotor, coat-of-arms from the Diputación de Toledo website

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Description

The flag of the city of Toledo has a plain field of the same vermillion shade of red as the flag of Madrid city, with complex arms featuring a large golden eagle and a castle in the centre. This flag was flying from the Ayuntamiento [city council] along with the flags of Castile-La Mancha and Spain (the latter centered and higher than the others) but it was too wrapped about the mast for me to have a clear view of the arms.

Vincent Morley, 9 October 1999

Toledo's arms are a grant of Emperor Charles V (King Charles I of Spain) and include the double-headed eagle bearing a escutcheon with Castile and Leon quartered and Granada in point (a pomegranate as in the current