Municipality of Granadilla de Abona (Tenerife Island, Santa Cruz de Tenerife Province, Canary Island

Last modified: 2009-01-24 by eugene ipavec
Keywords: granadilla de abona | tenerife | coat of arms | triband | sailing ship (white) | sticks: 2 (white) | crown | guanche | coronet | pomegranates: 10 (white) | border (orange) |
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Obverse image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 25 May 2008

Reverse image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 25 May 2008

• Description
• Former Flag
• Coat of Arms

See also:

• Tenerife Island (Canary Islands, Spain)
• Canary Islands (Spain)
• Spain

Other sites:

• Flags of Tenerife by José Manuel Erbez

According to Heraldica Institucional de Canarias, the new flag is a horizontal purpure over white over purpure tricolour. Maybe the flag is used since 1992 (BOC xx/01/1992).

Sources and Credits

Klaus-Michael Schneider, 14 Apr 2007

The municipality Granadilla de Abona is using a 2:3 flag with horizontal stripes red-white-red with ratio 1:2:1 with the CoA in the centre of the white stripe, i.e. its height is half height of flag. The backside of flag has no CoA. The red colour (on both sides) is a very dark one (pomegranate-red).

Klaus-Michael Schneider, May 18 2008

Version Shown in BOC

Obverse image by José Manuel Erbez, 30 Mar 2008

Reverse image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 14 Apr 2007

The flag of Granadilla de Abona has a ratio is 2:3. It is a red over white over red horizontal tricolour with the coat of arms in the centre of the white stripe. This is the version described in BOC. Nevertheless in HIdC there is a version without coat of arms with a very dark red, reflecting the colours of pomegranates. It s the same with the standard with coat of arms shown in the Military Museum of Sta. Cruz d. T.

Klaus-Michael Schneider, Mar 30 2008

Flag adopted in 1997.

Source: El Día, 03 Aug 2008

Ivan Sache, 07 Aug 2008

Granadilla's [former] flag is horizontally striped purpure over pink over purpure, with the coat of arms in its centre. I spotted this flag on 30 January in Military Museum Sta. Cruz d. T. This might be only a indoor flag. Maybe the outdoor version is purpure over white over purpure.

Sources and Credits

Klaus-Michael Schneider, 21 Apr 2007

image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 23 Apr 2007

A blue shield with a fully rigged sailing ship topped by two crossed Guanche sticks, which are topped by a coronet; all objects are silver (white). The shield has an orange border with ten silver (white) pomegranates, which gave the municipality its name. Abona is the name of an ancient Guanche mini-kingdom. The shield is topped by a crown.

Sources and Credits

Klaus-Michael Schneider, 23 Apr 2007

• The ship is an allusion to the fact that Fernando de Magallanes, who circumnavigated the world by ship for the very first time, sailed to the harbour of Granadilla, Puerto de Roja (today: El Médano) in 1525. His flagship was the vessel SANTA MARIA DE VICTORIA. Therefore the pennant upon the stern has the inscription "Victoria" (which you can't see in my image).
• The ring of stones (which you also can't see), the sticks and the crown/coronet are referring to the old mini-kingdom of Abona.
• The pomegranates upon the bordure are symbolizing the village's name, which has been derived from the well-known Granada in Andalusia. Their number is an allusion to the ten settlements of Granadilla.

Source: Simbolos De Canarias website by José Manuel Erbez

Klaus-Michael Schneider, 21 Mar 2008