Municipality of Güimar (Tenerife Island, Santa Cruz de Tenerife Province, Canary Islands, Spain

Last modified: 2023-07-03 by eugene ipavec
Keywords: güimar | tenerife | coat of arms | castle (golden) | lion (red) | mountain (brown) | castille and leon | moon: full | hands: 2 | crown | hands: shaking | garland | guanche | handshake | anchors: 8 (golden) |
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image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 14 Apr 2007

• Description
• Coat of Arms

See also:

• Tenerife Island (Canary Islands, Spain)
• Canary Islands (Spain)
• Spain

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• Symbols of the Canary Islands by José Manuel Erbez

A white flag with the coat of arms in its centre. I spotted this flag on 30 January in the Military Museum of Santa Cruz de Tenerife.

Sources and Credits

Klaus-Michael Schneider, 14 Apr 2007

image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 24 Apr 2007

The shield is divided per bend. Within the white (red-edged) bend are two arms shaking hands, probably representing peace between the Castilians and the Guanches. For the arm coming from dexter chief is in full black armour and that one coming from sinister base is bare. The bend is superimposing a cut off coat of arms of Castille and Leon (version divided per pale) in the sinister chief and a brown mountain topped by white snow in a blue sea under a dark blue sky with a white cloud in the dexter base. The mountain is probably the Pico del Teide. The shield has a green border with eight lying golden anchors. Under the shield is a garland and the shield is topped by a coronet. Güimar was the name of an ancient Guanche mini-kingdom.

Sources and Credits

Klaus-Michael Schneider, 24 Apr 2007

• The part in the centre is an image of the scene of Alonso Fernández de Lugo, commander in chief of the Castilian troops, sealing a "peace without bloodshed" with Añaterve, the Guanche chief of Güímar (easing the incorporation of Tenerife Island into the Castilian monarchy).

• The left chief shows the coat of arms of Castille and Leon.
• The dexter base symbolizes the isle of Tenerife.
• The coulters upon the bordure symbolize agriculture; the golden colour is a symbol of riches.

Source: Simbolos De Canarias website by José Manuel Erbez

Klaus-Michael Schneider, 21 Mar 2008