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

Excelentísimo Ayuntamiento de Tacoronte

Last modified: 2009-01-24 by eugene ipavec
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image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 14 Apr 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

Tacoronte's flag is plain white with the coat of arms in its centre. I spotted this flag on 30 January 2007 in Military Museum Sta. Cruz d. T.

Sources and Credits

Klaus-Michael Schneider, 14 Apr 2007

image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 14 Apr 2007

• The axes are taken from the coat of arms of Sebastián Machado, the founder of a rather primitive urban settlement at the beginning of the 17th century.
• The crown (only a coronet) reminds of the fact that Tacoronte was capital of one of the nine mini-kingdoms (called "menceyatos") that had been established on Tenerife in times of the Guanches.
• The word "Tacoronte" is the Spanish transmogrification of the Guanche word "Tagoro," being on top of the bordure. The meaning of that word (also known as "tagoror") is a council of elders, helping the local mencey (king).
• The vine leaves are an allusion to the successful production of vines in that region.

Source: Simbolos De Canarias website by José Manuel Erbez

Klaus-Michael Schneider, 21 Mar 2008