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# Linares (Municipality, Andalusia, Spain)

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Last modified: 2026-07-25 by olivier touzeau
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Flag of Linares - Image by Blas Delgado & Eduardo Panizo, 23 October 2005

- Presentation of Linares
- Symbols of Linares
- Submunicipal entity of Estacion de Linares-Baeza

See also:

- Spain
- Andalusia (Autonomous Community, Spain)
- Jaén Province (Andalusia, Spain)

## Presentation of Linares

The municipality of Linares (60,740 inhabitants in 2013, therefore the 2nd most populous municipality in the province; 19,750 ha; municipal website) is located 50 km north-east of Jaén.

Ivan Sache, 9 August 2009

## Symbols of Linares

The flag of Linares is horizontally divided yellow-green-white-red-blue with the town's coat of arms on the white stripe.
There is no specific reference to the flag in the Municipal Archives. However, the local historian Federico Ramírez explains in Apuntes (Chapter XVI) that the flag is "yellow, green, white, red and blue with the coat of arms of Linares in the center", and that such a local flag was used in 1666 during a procession of the Virgin of Linarejos. The colours appear to be taken from the shields used by the defenders of the castle of Linares, shown in the St. Mary church and confirmed by the historian Argote de Molina: red and yellow for Gil Ramírez de Dávalos, white and blue for Olid and Poblaciones. The green colour was probably added to the flag to recall that Linares was once ruled by the Arabs, from which the town was re-conquered in the 18th century.
The flag of Linares has been kept for a few years by the Brotherhood of the Patron Saint of Linares, which uses it in processions. More recently, the municipal administration started to use it in local events, with horizontal stripes.
[Unofficial website]

Santiago Dotor & Ivan Sache, 23 November 2001

## Submunicipal entity of Estacion de Linares-Baeza

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Flag and coat of arms of Estacion de Linares-Baeza - Images located by Valentin Poposki, 13 February 2026
from Simbolos de Jaén website

The Autonomous Local Entity of Estacion de Linares-Baeza is part of the Municipality of Linares in the Province of Jaen, Andalusia. Its symbols were approved by the General Secretariat of Local Administration on 20.11.2025.
Source : simbolosdejaen website; facebook page of the Ayuntamiento

- Coat of arms:
  Description: "Quartered shield. First, vert (green) with a red [wavy] stripe (river) and a [gold] ear of wheat; second, gules (burgundy) with two crossed keys argent and or; third, gules (burgundy) with a [natural] stork; and fourth, vert (green) with a [sable] train engine. [Crest: a closed royal crown]"
  Meaning: The ear of wheat and the wavy band refer to the fertility of the land and the Guadalimar River with its characteristic reddish color. The keys represent the city's patron saint, Saint Peter. The stork is the emblematic bird always visible on the bell tower, a symbol of deep roots and permanence. The locomotive refers to the origin and reason for being of the town.
- Flag:
  Description: "Rectangular flag, with proportions 1:2, divided diagonally from the lower corner of the hoist to the upper corner of the fly, the upper portion being green and the lower portion burgundy. It bears the entity's coat of arms in the center"

Valentin Poposki, 13 February 2026