The Flag of Spain
The Flag of Spain
The flag Spain uses today was first created on the 19th of December in 1981. The red and yellow stripes on the flags have been there since the 1700s. They used the bright colours because they were different from the other countries’ flags’ colours. The red stripe’s in the flag stands for “More Beyond”. It has two red strips and one yellow one in the middle. It then has two pillars, and in between them is a castle, red and yellow stripes, chain mail, a lion and three fleurs-de-lis in the center of the crest. This flag is used by all parts of Spain, but, every region of Spain has their own flag also. There is also a pledge for Spain’s flag, it is called “Jura de Bandera”, in English meaning “Oath of the flag”.
FUN FACT: Some people say that the colours originally came from the bullfighting arenas. Yellow showed the sand of the arena and red represented the blood that has been shed during the fight.
Wow! I never even knew what Spain’s flag even looked like! Their flag is a lot more detailed than Australia's! But Australia's current flag is 80 years older than the flag that Spain has now. The colours of Australia’s flag come from the flag of the United Kingdom, whose colours come from combinations of Scotland’s flag, Ireland’s flag and England’s flag.
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