Our Flag

The Saltire

Tenerife's flag

Legend about Tenerife’s flag: The most influential political canaries belonged to the Masonic Grand Lodge of Scotland and proposed a similar to the flag of Scotland as a tribute to the Grand Master of the Scottish lodge for the maritime province of the archipelago design, with head in the port of Santa Cruz de Tenerife. Later that design would be for the island of Tenerife.

Scotland

Loch Ness

Edinburgh's Castle

Tenerife

The Teide

The Auditorium

Another legend about the Tenerife’s flag: This design was adopted as a sign of respect for the courage of the Scottish sailors who fought in the Battle of Santa Cruz, 1797, when Horatio Nelson tried to invade the city and the archipelago.

Scotland:

Tenerife:

Scotland’s Flag- The Saltire: Legend says that in the year 832, in a battle between the Scots and Anglo-Saxon, St Andrew’s appeared to Angus King II and promised victory. In the morning, both armies saw appear on the blue sky a white cross, representing the one on which had been martyred St Andrew’s. The appearance gave courage to the Scots, while Anglos became demoralized and lost the fight.

However, the fact is that the historical evidence of the use of St Andrew’s Cross as a symbol of Scotland are quite later. It was in 1385 when the Scottish Parliament decreed that soldiers should wear the saltire as a mark of distinction. The first Scottish flag conserved, consisting only of a white cross dates from 1503, although the background is red, not blue. Acquire this color around 1540.

The Saltire

Hairy Coo

Tenerife’s Flag: Tenerife’s flag was officially adopted as the flag of the island on May 9, 1989. The flag was elected of the maritime province of Tenerife. Since then the flag, which was de La Palma, or at least the Bay of Santa Cruz de La Palma and its port, was relegated.

Tenerife's flag

Blue Chaffin

The Guardian Thistle: It is the national emblem of Scotland for over 700 years. According to legend, long time ago, the Danes invaded Scotland but do not wear shoes, in the dark, one of them stepped on a thistle and a cry of pain alerted the Scots and prevented a terrible slaughter. A plant that saved it was known as “The Guardian Thistle”.

Thistle

The childrens of Ladon: Account mythology Ladon, the ancient dragon killed by Atlas and guarding the Garden of the Hesperides, lives on in his children called dragos. The blood from the wounds of Ladon landed on the Canary Islands (land on which it stood at Garden of the Hesperides), and every drop grew a drago. These trees, called “dragon tree”.

Drago

Andrea Rodríguez Silvestre By: Andrea Rodríguez Silvestre 3º C ESO IES Santa Ana