Copipega de mi explicación en inglés, porque paso de traducirlo. Estoy abierto a críticas, recomendaciones, alabanzas e insultos.
>**Galicia**: a Cross of St. James with the coat of arms of the region.
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>**Asturias**: a red flag, inspired by the red ensign proposed by Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos for the Regiment of Asturian Nobles in the 18th century. Written on top, “HOC SIGNO VINCITUR INIMICUS” (*With this sign the enemy is defeated*), one of the inscriptions of the real Victory Cross. Written below, “ASTURIES ENXAMÁS VENCÍA” (*Asturias never defeated*), a translation in Asturian of the Asturian soldiers’ motto during the Peninsular War.
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>**Cantabria**: a flag based on the [one](https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bandera_de_Cantabria#/media/Archivo:Bandera_de_la_ADIC.svg) proposed by ADIC during the Transition, but changing the hideous grey stripe by a purple one with the *lábaro.*
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>**Basque Country**: based on the flag intended by Sabino Arana to be used for the entire Basque Country, but with three stripes in each canton instead of six to represent the three provinces of the Autonomous Community. In the middle, a *lauburu.*
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>**Navarre**: *technically* a redesign because the region uses a [different flag](https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archivo:Bandera_de_Navarra.svg). But yeah, I couldn’t come up with an alternative design that could represent the region and just slapped the unofficial flag. You win, Navarre.
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>**La Rioja**: inspired by its coat of arms, on the bottom the waves represent the Ebro river. The bridge and the castle are common elements in municipal heraldry, and the two seashells symbolize both the Way of St. James and the traditional regions of Upper and Lower Rioja.
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>**Castille and Leon**: purple is associated both with Leon and with Castille, the latter through the misidentification of the Comuneros’ banner, originally deep red but which slowly turned purple over the centuries. I added a mural crown to the CoA to balance it and represent its civic tradition, but if you feel it’s a tad too republican, just imagine it’s a regular crown.
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>**Castille-La Mancha**: using the colors of Manchego regionalism (black, red, white and blue, originally aluding to the provinces of Toledo, Cuenca, Albacete and Ciudad Real), to which I added purple (in reference to Guadalajara) and yellow (to balance the whole thing). The Cross of St. Andrew is inteded to be reminiscent of a windmill’s blade.
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>**Aragon**: the bars of the Crown of Aragon, with a blue stripe and Íñigo Arista’s cross.
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>**Catalonia**: the bars with the Cross of St. George.
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>**Valencia**: the bars with a bat or *Rat Penat*.
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>**Balearic Islands**: basically the same as the real flag, but following the convention I set with the other three Aragonese flags.
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>**Madrid**: a blue stripe on the bottom representing the Tagus river. On top, the Big Dipper.
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>**Murcia**: the crimson flag is overlaid with the white cross of the Maritime Province of Cartagena. In the middle, the city of Murcia’s heart (in reference to king Alfonso X’s heart, which rests in its cathedral) surrounds the seven crowns of the kingdom of Murcia.
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>**Extremadura**: purple on top in reference to the province of Cáceres, blue on the bottom in reference to Badajoz. In the middle, a white stripe with a green cross of the Order of Calatrava.
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>**Andalusia**: the green-white bicolor supposedly used by the women of the Casares Commune during the Peninsular War, overlaid with a Tartessian Star. In its interior, there’s Hercules with two lions and his Pillars.
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>**Canary Islands**: a horizontal tricolor with the stars of the 1927 Ateneo de la Laguna’s flag, representing each island of the archipelago.
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>**Ceuta**: a black-white flag imitating the disposition of the Portuguese one. The seven spikes represent the seven hills of the city, while the castle with the key and the city’s CoA symbolize its position as the “key to the Mediterranean”.
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>**Melilla**: inspired by the city’s [coat of arms](https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escudo_de_Melilla), which features two baskets with red-yellow squares over a blue field.
Murcia es un regalito.
Pues qué quieres que te diga, me parecen muy mejoradas todas. La ikurriña ya no parece un copipega de la Union Jack.
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Copipega de mi explicación en inglés, porque paso de traducirlo. Estoy abierto a críticas, recomendaciones, alabanzas e insultos.
>**Galicia**: a Cross of St. James with the coat of arms of the region.
>
>**Asturias**: a red flag, inspired by the red ensign proposed by Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos for the Regiment of Asturian Nobles in the 18th century. Written on top, “HOC SIGNO VINCITUR INIMICUS” (*With this sign the enemy is defeated*), one of the inscriptions of the real Victory Cross. Written below, “ASTURIES ENXAMÁS VENCÍA” (*Asturias never defeated*), a translation in Asturian of the Asturian soldiers’ motto during the Peninsular War.
>
>**Cantabria**: a flag based on the [one](https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bandera_de_Cantabria#/media/Archivo:Bandera_de_la_ADIC.svg) proposed by ADIC during the Transition, but changing the hideous grey stripe by a purple one with the *lábaro.*
>
>**Basque Country**: based on the flag intended by Sabino Arana to be used for the entire Basque Country, but with three stripes in each canton instead of six to represent the three provinces of the Autonomous Community. In the middle, a *lauburu.*
>
>**Navarre**: *technically* a redesign because the region uses a [different flag](https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archivo:Bandera_de_Navarra.svg). But yeah, I couldn’t come up with an alternative design that could represent the region and just slapped the unofficial flag. You win, Navarre.
>
>**La Rioja**: inspired by its coat of arms, on the bottom the waves represent the Ebro river. The bridge and the castle are common elements in municipal heraldry, and the two seashells symbolize both the Way of St. James and the traditional regions of Upper and Lower Rioja.
>
>**Castille and Leon**: purple is associated both with Leon and with Castille, the latter through the misidentification of the Comuneros’ banner, originally deep red but which slowly turned purple over the centuries. I added a mural crown to the CoA to balance it and represent its civic tradition, but if you feel it’s a tad too republican, just imagine it’s a regular crown.
>
>**Castille-La Mancha**: using the colors of Manchego regionalism (black, red, white and blue, originally aluding to the provinces of Toledo, Cuenca, Albacete and Ciudad Real), to which I added purple (in reference to Guadalajara) and yellow (to balance the whole thing). The Cross of St. Andrew is inteded to be reminiscent of a windmill’s blade.
>
>**Aragon**: the bars of the Crown of Aragon, with a blue stripe and Íñigo Arista’s cross.
>
>**Catalonia**: the bars with the Cross of St. George.
>
>**Valencia**: the bars with a bat or *Rat Penat*.
>
>**Balearic Islands**: basically the same as the real flag, but following the convention I set with the other three Aragonese flags.
>
>**Madrid**: a blue stripe on the bottom representing the Tagus river. On top, the Big Dipper.
>
>**Murcia**: the crimson flag is overlaid with the white cross of the Maritime Province of Cartagena. In the middle, the city of Murcia’s heart (in reference to king Alfonso X’s heart, which rests in its cathedral) surrounds the seven crowns of the kingdom of Murcia.
>
>**Extremadura**: purple on top in reference to the province of Cáceres, blue on the bottom in reference to Badajoz. In the middle, a white stripe with a green cross of the Order of Calatrava.
>
>**Andalusia**: the green-white bicolor supposedly used by the women of the Casares Commune during the Peninsular War, overlaid with a Tartessian Star. In its interior, there’s Hercules with two lions and his Pillars.
>
>**Canary Islands**: a horizontal tricolor with the stars of the 1927 Ateneo de la Laguna’s flag, representing each island of the archipelago.
>
>**Ceuta**: a black-white flag imitating the disposition of the Portuguese one. The seven spikes represent the seven hills of the city, while the castle with the key and the city’s CoA symbolize its position as the “key to the Mediterranean”.
>
>**Melilla**: inspired by the city’s [coat of arms](https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escudo_de_Melilla), which features two baskets with red-yellow squares over a blue field.
Murcia es un regalito.
Pues qué quieres que te diga, me parecen muy mejoradas todas. La ikurriña ya no parece un copipega de la Union Jack.
La de Madrid es lamentable…
Madrid parece republica sovietica