Flag of Melilla

The flag of Melilla is a blue canvas with the emblem of the city in the center.

Flag of the autonomous city of Melilla
Melilla
Spain
Approved	March 13, 1995
Using
Proportion	2: 3

Melilla's coat of arms consists of:

Azure field, two boilers, divided into gold and red squares, and filled with seven green snakes .

Along the edges are the coats of arms of Castile and Leon , nine red squares with golden locks alternating with nine silver squares with red lions .

The coat of arms is crowned with a ducal crown , above which a human figure, which represents Gusman the Good , rises. On each side there are Heracles pillars with the inscription " Non Plus Ultra " (from the Latin. - "there is no place further").

Under the emblem is a green dragon .

Motto : In the upper part of the coat of arms there is a fluttering ribbon with the inscription “ Praeferre Patriam Liberis Parentem Decet ” (from lat. - “children should prefer the motherland to parents”).