The Cuban Flag born as an idea of the General Narciso Lopez (Venezuela, Sept. 13, 1798) when he joined Cuba’s independence cause back in 1848 or 1849 in New York City, as the two versions said. He got the idea and went to see a friend of his, the poet and patriot Miguel Teurbe Tolon, who designed the flag which was sewn by his sister Emilia as is follow: Three blue and two white stripes, a red triangle and a white star. The blue stripes represent the three original provinces: Western, Central and Eastern, the white ones stand for the justice and purity, and the lone star in a red triangle was representing the unity of the patriots upon the blood of the heroes. It was in Matanzas, the town known as the Cuban Athens, where the Cuban flag was hoisted for the first time, in 1850. More than fifty years later, on May 20, 1902, the Narciso and Miguel’s flag was officially named: The Cuban National Flag. The law of National Symbols says: "[...] its shape is rectangular, twice length than width, composed by five horizontal stripes having all the same width, three deep blue and two white, placed alternatively. A red equilateral triangle, one of its vertical edges occupying the whole height of the flag and constituting its fixed edge. The triangle bears in its center a five-pointed white star, within an imaginary circle, whose diameter is the third of the flag´s height, having one of its points towards the free upper edge of the flag."copyright 2009
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