flag of the Community of Madrid

{{Short description|Regional flag in Spain}}

{{About|the flag of the Autonomous Community of Madrid|the flag of the city|Flag of the City of Madrid}}

{{Infobox National flag

| Name = Community of Madrid

| Image = Flag of the Community of Madrid.svg

| Image_size = 200px

| Symbol = {{FIAV|normal}}

| Proportion = 7:11

| Adoption = December 23, 1983

| Design =

| Designer = José María Cruz Novillo

}}

The flag of the Community of Madrid is crimson red, with seven five-pointed stars in white, placed four and three in the centre of the field.{{Cite web |url=http://www.madrid.org/wleg/servlet/Servidor?opcion=VerHtml&nmnorma=2&cdestado=P |title=Law 2/1983, of 23 december of the Community of Madrid |access-date=2009-05-02 |archive-date=2015-02-11 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150211184814/http://www.madrid.org/wleg/servlet/Servidor?opcion=VerHtml&nmnorma=2&cdestado=P |url-status=dead }}

The crimson color stands for Castile as Madrid has been historically Castillian, and the stars represents each of the administrative areas of the province of Madrid, which are the City of Madrid, Alcalá de Henares, Torrelaguna, San Martín de Valdeiglesias, El Escorial, Getafe and Chinchón.{{cite book|title=Complete Flags of the World|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZauSgqSl6ekC&pg=PA138|date=3 November 2008|publisher=Dorling Kindersley Limited|isbn=978-1-4053-3861-5|pages=138–}} The stars are also thought to represent either the Ursa Major (The Plough asterism) or Ursa Minor constellation, in reference to the bear of the City of Madrid's coat of arms.{{cite book|author=André G. Bordeleau|title=Flags of the Night Sky: When Astronomy Meets National Pride|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NSu5BAAAQBAJ&pg=PA142|date=22 October 2013|publisher=Springer Science & Business Media|isbn=978-1-4614-0929-8|pages=142–}}{{cite web|url=https://flagspot.net/flags/es-m-mad.html#spc|title=City of Madrid|accessdate=2017-10-29}}