City of Donostia-San Sebastián (Basque Country, Spain)

Guipúzcoa/Gipuzkoa Province

Last modified: 2001-09-08 by santiago dotor
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by Vincent Morley

• Description

See also:

• Guipúzcoa/Gipuzkoa Province (Basque Country, Spain)
• San Sebastián Maritime Province
• Basque Country (Spain)
• Spain

Other sites:

• Flag, coat-of-arms and anthem of San Sebastián (unofficial, personal website)

[During a recent vacation, I noticed that] in San Sebastián, interestingly, both the ayuntamiento [city council] and the main library flew only the municipal flag: a plain white flag with a small blue canton. The canton appeared to be square and about 40% of the height of the hoist, but this may not be exactly correct.

Vincent Morley, 9 October 1999

Flying the city flag alone is a common solution to avoid flying the Spanish flag —which would attract independentist flag-burning mobs— or flying the Basque flag without flying the Spanish one —which is illegal in official buildings, including Basque Government ones—.

Santiago Dotor, 14 October 1999