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The flag of Spain (Bandera de España), [a] as it is defined in the Constitution of 1978, consists of three horizontal stripes: red, yellow and red, the yellow stripe being twice the height of each red stripe.
The flag of Spain consists of three horizontal stripes: red, yellow and red, the yellow strip being twice as wide as each red stripe. A crimson square with the Coat of arms of the King in the center. A version of the flag with gold fringing is known as the guidon and serves as the command sign or positional flag for military use.
King Charles III decided that Spain should have a flag that was clearly distinguishable from those of other countries. From among the proposals submitted to him he chose unequal horizontal stripes of red-yellow-red with the national arms on the yellow near the hoist. Introduced in 1785, it has continued ever since to be the “core flag” of ...
The royal crown symbolized the King of Spain while the imperial crown symbolized the Holy Roman Emperor with King Charles serving in both capacities in the late 18th century.
The flag of Spain, known as la rojigualda (the red-weld), consists of three horizontal stripes, two red and one yellow, the yellow stripe being double the width of the red ones. It also has the Spanish Coat of Arms on the yellow stripe, placed towards the hoist.
Currently, the flag has three horizontal stripes where the top one and the bottom one are red and the wider middle stripe is yellow. In the left upper part, the national coat of arms is located. Its fields represent Castile, Leon, Aragon, Navarre, and Grenada.
In 1469, the Catholic monarchs of Castile and Aragon were unified by marriage, and as a result, the kingdom of Spain adopted a flag that symbolized the unification of the two houses. This flag consisted of the heraldic symbols of the two Iberian realms.