Historical Cuban Flags
Those seeking time travel to the sixties or early seventies might want to consider a visit to the island of Cuba, if considered legal. A little while back, whilst I was traveling trough countries in Europe, I came across all kinds of advertisements with travel offers to Havana, Cuba. Like most world countries, the Cuban flag is hoisted on flag poles of all kinds throughout the island and some other places in the world. The respective national flag is more than one century old.
The design of the flag of Cuba itself displays three horizontal bands that are each colored in the same blue shade color. Also, 2 white horizontal bands are displayed in between the 3 blue bands. A so called red “equilateral” triangle at the hoist side of the flag features a white star.
Even thought the flag of Cuba was adopted officially during the early years of the 1900-s, the design itself has been around a few decades longer. During the 1840-s, a flag design was produced likely because of the various efforts of the Cuban liberation movement that was searching for independence from Spain at that time.
The idea to produce a new flag was triggered by Cuban movements that were seeking an independent “Cuba.” The three blue colored bands are said to symbolize or represent the 3 parts of the county that used to be divided: central, occidental and oriental parts of the country that is. The 2 white bands represent the purity of the patriotic efforts. Interestingly, the red colored triangle on the hoist side is one of many unique flag facts that is said to symbolize the Cuban struggle suffered by those seeking to “free the nation.”
Back in the day, in 1869, the design of the Cuban flag by Narciso Lopes was determined to be the Cuban banner, as designated by the Republic of Cuba in Arms. Narciso’s flag was interestingly also used for the design of the flag of nearby Puerto Rico, a few years later. Fascinatingly, the American flag was also flown from objects of all kinds, including flag poles throughout the island from 1899 till the year Cuba became independent officially.
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