| Coat of arms of the City Barcelona | |
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| Armiger | City Council of Barcelona |
| Adopted | 1329 |
| Crest | Spanish Royal Crown |
| Shield | Quarterly: 1 and 4 the Saint George's Cross, 2 and 3 the Royal Bars of Aragon |
The coat of arms of Barcelona is the official emblem of the City Council of Barcelona, the capital of Catalonia, has its origin in the Middle Ages, these arms were first documented in 1329.[1] The Government of Catalonia conferred the coat of arms and the flag as official symbols of the municipality in 2004. It has an escutcheon in lozenge which is commonly used in municipal coats of arms of cities in Catalonia.[2] Currently the City Council of Barcelona also uses an isotype based on the heraldry of the city.
The blazon of the arms is:
Quarterly, first and fourth Argent, a full cross Gules, second and third Or, with four paletts Gules; for a Crest, a royal crown (with half-arches, monde, and cross).
— Official Gazette of Catalonia - DOGC, no. 4114[3]
- ^ Coat of arms of Barcelona. Barcelona: Catalan Society of Genealogy, Heraldry, Sigillography, Vexillology and Nobility - SCGHSVN (in Catalan). Retrieved 22 July 2018
- ^ "DOGC 4914, decreto 139/2007 por el que se regulan la denominación, los símbolos y el registro de entes locales de Cataluña" [DOGC No. 4914, Decree 139/2007 on denomination, symbols and registry of local entities of Catalonia.]. Generalitat of Catalonia. 2005. Archived from the original on 4 January 2012. Retrieved 29 July 2018.
- ^ "Official Gazette of Catalonia, no. 4114, RESOLUCIÓ GAP/937/2004, de 13 d'abril, approving the coat of arms of the municipality of Barcelona". Archived from the original on 2005-03-13. Retrieved 2018-07-29.
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