Flag of the Balearic Islands

The official specification of the flag is included in the Statute of Autonomy of the Balearic Islands, passed in 1983 as the Organic Law 2/1983.

The flag of the Balearic Islands, made up of distinctive, historically legitimised symbols, will consist of four horizontal red bars over a yellow background, having an upper-left quarter with a purple background behind a centred white castle with five turrets.

Each island will be allowed to have its own flag and distinctive symbols, by agreement of their respective councils.The most recent Statute of Autonomy, from 2007, maintained the same wording for the article which defines the flag, although it changed from the fourth to the sixth article of the Statute.

The Draft Bill of the 1931 Statute of Autonomy of the Balearic Islands, formulated during the years of the Second Spanish Republic, although eventually not passed, merely established in its third article that: The flag of the region is that of the historical Kingdom of Mallorca.

The current official flags of the Balearic Islands and Mallorca are modern creations based on this flag, and do not respect the rules of heraldry (use of purple, and a reversed castle in the case of Mallorca).