Municipality of Tegueste (Tenerife Island, Santa Cruz de Tenerife Province, Canary Islands, Spain)

Ilustre Ayuntamiento de la Villa de Tegueste

Last modified: 2009-01-24 by eugene ipavec
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image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 07 May 2007

• Description
• Coat of Arms

See also:

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

Other sites:

• Flags of Tenerife by José Manuel Erbez

Tegueste's flag is a white over green horizontal bicolour with the coat of arms in its centre.

Sources and Credits

Klaus-Michael Schneider, 07 May 2007

Flag adopted in 1995.

Source: "El Día"

Ivan Sache, 07 Aug 2008

Description of coat of arms: shield is divided per pale. On the right side in a red field are four fessy silver (white) lines with black brickwork. On the left side in a silver (white) field is a green tree on green ground with a silver fountain coming from beneath the trees roots. The shield has a border with eight alternating golden (yellow) and green sections. In each green segment is a golden ear of grain, in each golden one a green grape of vine. The shield is topped by a crown.

I spotted this flag on 30 January 2007 in Military Museum Sta. Cruz d. T.. Tegueste was the name of a Guanche mini-kingdom.

Sources and Credits

Klaus-Michael Schneider, 07 May 2007

• The right side is the historic coat of arms of Tegueste.
• The tree is a symbol of the laurel woods upon the municipality's hilltops.
• The green colour of the terasse refers to the fertility of the soil,
• The torrent is an image of the fountain of Mocán, supplying the municipality with water for ages.
• Ears of grain and grapes are the traditional crops cultivated in Tegueste.

Source: Simbolos De Canarias website by José Manuel Erbez

Klaus-Michael Schneider, 21 Mar 2008