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City of Toledo (Castile-La Mancha, Spain)

Toledo Province

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The flag of the city of Toledo has a plain field of the same vermillion shade of red as the flag of Madrid city, with complex arms featuring a large golden eagle and a castle in the centre. This flag was flying from the Ayuntamiento [city council] along with the flags of Castile-La Mancha and Spain (the latter centered and higher than the others) but it was too wrapped about the mast for me to have a clear view of the arms.

Vincent Morley, 9 October 1999

Toledo's arms are a grant of Emperor Charles V (King Charles I of Spain) and include the double-headed eagle bearing a escutcheon with Castile and Leon quartered and Granada in point (a pomegranate as in the current Spanish Arms) surrounded by the collar of the Order of the Golden Fleece, the eagle holding in its talons the pillars of Hercules and the Imperial crown. I am attaching es)cl-to.gif, a horrible GIF of the more or less official version taken from the Diputación de Toledo Official Website (Provincial Council), and es)clto2.gif, a better GIF of a not so correct version (lacks the pillars, the crown does not look very much like an imperial one) taken from José María Valladolid's website. The eagle is generally depicted sable ie. black. Possibly the flag you saw either had a black eagle heavily "lined" in gold, or it was a wrong variation.

Santiago Dotor, 14 October 1999

from the Diputación de Toledo Official Website

from José María Valladolid's website

The eagle was definitely gold, not black on the flag — that would have looked very Albanian. I couldn't see the escutcheon on the flag, but I saw the municipal arms at a few places around the city and it had the castle alone — at the time I wondered whether it was the castle of Castile or a representation of the Alcázar.

Vincent Morley, 17 October 1999