Tarragona Province (Catalonia, Spain)

Last modified: 2009-01-24 by eugene ipavec
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by Jens Pattke

• Description
• Unofficial Flag ca. 1975
• Unofficial Flag ca. 1970
• Municipal Flags

See also:

• Tarragona Maritime Province
• Provincial Flags (Spain)
• Catalonia (Cataluña / Catalunya, Spain)
• Spain

According to the Manual del Estado Español (Handbook of the Spanish State, Spanish text only) by Editorial Lama, there is no flag, the coat-of-arms being adopted by Royal Ordinance on 24th March 1928, agreement of the Diputación Provincial on 3rd April 1928:

Los cuatro palos encarnados en fondo de oro. Superpuestos verados en ondas de oro y gules en palo, inscritos en un escudete tetrágono de forma colocado sobre el todo del escudo. En el ángulo inferior del escudete la Thau característica de la Mitra Arzobispal. Timbrado todo, en la parte superior, con corona de Príncipe.

Pascal Vagnat, 16 July 1999

Unofficial flag. The source for Jens Pattke's image is Ministerio para las Administraciones Públicas 1992.

Falko Schmidt, 24 January 2002

Alternate Reported Flag

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image from Eduardo Panizo's Vexilla Hispanica, 25 Jul 2003

by Jens Pattke

Tarragona has a red flag with coat-of-arms and below the text Diputación Provincial de Tarragona; source: photograph in the SEV archives. It is unofficial and is used only in some events. The described pattern is dated c. 1975.

Jaume Ollé, 27 February 2000

Unofficial variant. The source for Jens Pattke's image is Ministerio para las Administraciones Públicas 1992.

Falko Schmidt, 24 January 2002

Previously (c. 1970) an armorial banner was used.

Jaume Ollé, 27 Feb 2000

But isn't the current flag precisely an armorial banner?

António Martins-Tuválkin, 14 Mar 2005