Municipality of Guía de Isora (Tenerife Island, Santa Cruz de Tenerife Province, Canary Islands, Spa

Last modified: 2009-01-24 by eugene ipavec
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Version Without Arms image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 14 Apr 2007

Version With Arms image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 26 Mar 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, Guía de Isora's new flag is a horizontal 4-striped flag, the stripes are yellow over white over green over blue. Maybe the flag is used since 1992 (BOC xx/01/1992).

Klaus-Michael Schneider, 14 Apr 2007

Flag adopted in 2000.

Source: El Día, 03 Aug 2008

Ivan Sache, 07 Aug 2008

image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 27 Apr 2007

Guía de Isora's flag is plain white with the coat of arms in its centre. I spotted this flag on 30 January in Military Museum in Sta. Cruz d. T.

Sources and Credits

Klaus-Michael Schneider, 27 Apr 2007

The coat of arms is a rectangular shield divided per fess. On the chief in a blue field two arms are shaking hands, that one coming from dexter chief is bare, that one coming from sinister chief is in full silver armor. Probably the chief is symbolizing peace between Castilians and Guanches. On the base a green tree(sinister) and a green mountain(dexter) on green ground are placed in a silver (white) field. The shield has a blue border with eight golden dots. The shield is topped by a crown.

Sources and Credits

Klaus-Michael Schneider, 27 Apr 2007

• The scene on the chief symbolizes peace between Castilians and Guanches; the latter are represented by the bare arm of their princess Isora, who gave – according to a legend – the municipality its name.
• The mountain on the base is the Viejo, also called Chamorra, while the tree is the so called Almácigo de Chajajo, considered a symbol of the municipality for ages.
• The "dots" upon the bordure are indeed 8-point stars – according to terms of Spanish heraldry images of the morning star or evening star, i.e. the planet Venus. (You can see this in the blow-up image of the source.) The stars are here symbols of the Virgin of the Lights, the municipality's patron. One of her titles, used in adoration, is "guardian" or guía, forming the other part of the municipality's name.

Source: Simbolos De Canarias website by José Manuel Erbez

Klaus-Michael Schneider, 21 Mar 2008