City of La Orotava (Tenerife Island, Santa Cruz de Tenerife Province, Canary Islands, Spain)

Excelentísimo Ayuntamiento de la Villa de la Orotava

Last modified: 2009-01-24 by eugene ipavec
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by José Manuel Erbez and Santiago Dotor

• Description
• Coat of Arms

See also:

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

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• Flags of Tenerife by José Manuel Erbez

La Orotava, in the hinterland nearby Puerto de la Cruz, has a white flag with the coat-of-arms in the centre, about a half of the flag's height.

Santiago Dotor, 3 May 2000

Current Flag
image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 14 Apr 2007

In the centre of a golden (yellow) field stands a tree in leafy green. The shield has a red border with one golden (yellow) apple on each side. Two green dragons with bat wings and tails ending in spearheads are the shield's supporters. The shield is topped by a coronet.

Not only the shield but also the border and the supporters refer to the legend of the garden of the Hesperides,in which stood the tree with the golden apples, which were stolen by ancient hero Hercules. The garden was watched by a never-sleeping dragon.

Source: Leaflet of Mancomunidad de Tenerife del Norte; Sources and Credits

Klaus-Michael Schneider, 25 Apr 2007