Tag: Crest

Continuing with the previous post’s theme, here are two Spanish flags draped from apartments next to where we stayed in Barcelona recently.

This is of course a political statement in a city that is the hotbed of Catalunya’s separatist movement.

I’ll get to the Catalans next.

My main concern however is for Spanish kids – all children have to draw their nations’s flag at some point – the crest on the flag is off-centre and is a piece of rather complicated heraldry.

Good luck sketching that one, el nino…