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(click to enlarge)Buenos Aires was founded by Juan de Garay 11 June 1580 with the City name of
the Trinidad of the Port of the Buenos Aires. In 20 October was gathered the
local Chapter to determine, among other things, the shield of the city. Was
then when it was established the local shield in the one which already was
appearing the crowned black eagle, the little eagles and the red cross. The
black eagle was appearing in the nobiliary shields of Ortiz de Zarate, first
adelantado of the Plata River, and in those of his son-in-law and
succeeding Torres de Vera, of which Juan de Garay was a captain with
greatest powers; the cross of Calatrava
was introduced to symbolize the
Christian faith and the wreath symbolizes to the kingdom of Castille and
Lion; the four little eagles were representing at four cities or villages
that they had to be founded according to the agreements between the first
Adelantado Ortiz de Zarate and the king Felipe II (1569) and of those which
The Trinidad of the Buenos Aires was the second (after Santa Fe, founded in
1573 by Martín Suarez de Toledo) being the others two Conception and Vera.
Jaume Ollé, 14 Dec 1999,
quoting from his article on Flag Report 4
[frp],
based on informations provided by Alberto R. Perazzo,
president of the
Argentine Asociation of Vexillology
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The shield appears modified in 1649 when the governed Hyacinth de Lariz
introduced a pattern containing a dove in chief and an anchor emerging of
the sea in the base.
Jaume Ollé, 14 Dec 1999,
quoting from his article on Flag Report 4
[frp],
based on informations provided by Alberto R. Perazzo,
president of the
Argentine Asociation of Vexillology
This shield appear in the 1807 flag of
the Patricios.
Jaume Ollé, 13 Aug 2000
A new shield was conceded by the king Felipe V in
1716: oval-shaped with
dove in chief and anchor half submerged in the water, short the one which
the shield; in the sea two ships.
This pattern with various variations persists at present.
Jaume Ollé, 14 Dec 1999,
quoting from his article on Flag Report 4
[frp],
based on informations provided by Alberto R. Perazzo,
president of the
Argentine Asociation of Vexillology
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(click to enlarge)In 1923 a
municipal ordinance established various specifications, but it did not fix
the colors.
Jaume Ollé, 14 Dec 1999,
quoting from his article on Flag Report 4
[frp],
based on informations provided by Alberto R. Perazzo,
president of the
Argentine Asociation of Vexillology
(click to enlarge)28 of September of 1995 the deliberating Council of the city and Buenos
Aires sanctioned the ordinance 49.669 that was establishing the
flag of the city. The Ordinance was promulgated
24 October 1995 (Decree number 1.291).
The article 1 of the Ordinance establishes as official flag of the city the
one formed by white cloth carrying in the center the shield created by Juan
de Garay 20 October 1580, integrated by a crowned black eagle, with four
little eagles and a colored cross in her straight claw, known as Cross of
Calatrava for be the pattern used by the military Order of Calatrava, in
Spain.
Jaume Ollé, 14 Dec 1999,
quoting from his article on Flag Report 4
[frp],
based on informations provided by Alberto R. Perazzo,
president of the
Argentine Asociation of Vexillology
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(click to enlarge)The shield was modified in May of 1997 after a
public contest: it is a stilized drawing with the sea and the anchor,
an alone ship; a light halo substituted to the dove.
Jaume Ollé, 14 Dec 1999,
quoting from his article on Flag Report 4
[frp],
based on informations provided by Alberto R. Perazzo,
president of the
Argentine Asociation of Vexillology