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Municipality of Santillana del Mar (Cantabria, Spain)

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by Santiago Dotor and Eduardo Panizo

Description
Flag Variants
Coat-of-Arms

See also:

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

Description

I spent some days in Cantabria in August 2000. Santillana del Mar ("the most beautiful village in Spain", according to Jean Paul Sartre) has a red flag with two parallel, widely separated, thin green stripes going from the top hoist to bottom fly, and a small coat-of-arms on the top fly. On the flag samples I saw (displayed at the town hall and the nearby Parador Nacional for instance), the stripes were much thinner than in Eduardo Panizo's image and I do not recall any yellow fimbriations.

Santiago Dotor, 8 September 2000

I visited Santillana in mid-October 2002 and can confirm that the flags at the town hall and the parador opposite the main square are like that described in FotW. However, I spotted a different one at the Altamira caves complex.

Aingeru Astui, translated by Santiago Dotor, 17 October 2002

Flag Variants

Flag reported by Eduardo Panizo	Flag reported by Jordi Pérez and Aingeru Astui at the Altamira Caves complex

by Eduardo Panizo, exported to GIF by Santiago Dotor	by Santiago Dotor, Eduardo Panizo and Aingeru Astui

Jordi Pérez reported in the Spanish Vexilologia mailing list the flag of Santillana del Mar he saw during Easter 2002, which was different from Eduardo Panizo's image and from that at the top. (...) Jordi Pérez appears to have seen this flag at least at the entrance to the Altamira Caves complex.

Santiago Dotor, 9 April 2002

I visited Santillana in mid-October 2002 (...) I spotted a different flag at the Altamira caves complex, shown above.

Aingeru Astui, translated by Santiago Dotor, 17 October 2002

Coat-of-Arms

by Eduardo Panizo, exported to GIF by Santiago Dotor