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Tacoronte (Municipality, Canary Islands, Spain)

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Flag of Tacoronte shown in the Santa Cruz de Tenerife Military Museum

[Municipal flag]

Flag of Tacoronte, as seen on 30 Janaury 2007 in the Santa Cruz de Tenerife Military Museum - Image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 14 April 2007

The flag of Tacoronte shown in the Santa Cruz de Tenerife Military Museum is white with the municipal coat of arms in the middle.

The coat of arms of Tacoronte (image) is prescribed by Decree No. 509, adopted on 20 February 1976 by the Spanish Government and published on 18 March 1976 in the Spanish official gazette, No. 67, p. 5,579 (text).
The coat of arms, which included the modifications suggested by the Royal Academy of History, is described as follows:

Coat of arms: Gules five axes argent hilted or per saltire in chief a crown ancien or. A bordure gules three grapevine leaves vert in chief the word "Tagoro" in letters sable. The shield surmounted with a Royal crown.

According to José Manuel Erbez (Banderas y escudos de Canarias, 2007; website), the axes are taken from the arms of Sebastián Machado, the founder of the first urban settlement in the early 17th century. The old crown recalls that Tacoronte was rhe capital of one of the nine menceyatos (kingdoms) of the pre-Hispanic Canary Islands, whose name, Tagaro, is written on the shield's bordure. The grapevine leaves allude to the local wine production.

Klaus-Michael Schneider & Ivan Sache, 21 March 2008