¡¡Flechas... a la España grande!! (Falange youth poster, Cádiz)
Colour poster of a youth in blue shirt and shorts, with the Falange yoke-and-arrows badge on his chest and another at upper left, throwing a bundle of arrows, over the red lettering '¡¡Flechas... a la España grande!!'. The tell: a boy's athletic throw stands in for national destiny, with the party emblem doing the work of the argument.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1937
- Period
- Interwar
- Made by
- Falange Española (Nationalist Spain); artist signed Macías; printed by Establecimientos Gerón, Cádiz
Full record
Region, Country, Medium, Issuer type, Regime, Leader, Audience, Purpose, Themes, Event, Source, Rights
- Region
- Western and Central Europe
- Country
- Spain
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- Party
- Regime
- Nationalist Spain
- Leader
- Francisco Franco
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Recruit
- Themes
- War and the military, Home front
- Event
- Spanish Civil War
- Leader
- Francisco Franco
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons, retrieved October 11, 2026
- Rights
- Commons public-domain tag; URAA status not cleared; hosted on owner decision October 2, 2026
Wikimedia Commons, File:Arrows… for Spain the Great!!.jpg (author unknown or anonymous per the file page unless stated in the entry notes).
Text on the object
Original (Spanish) · read from the image, not independently checked
¡¡Flechas... a la España grande!! ESTABLECIMIENTOS GERÓN - CADIZ Macías
Arrows... for Greater Spain!! (the pun is on 'flechas', arrows, and the Falange youth 'Flechas')
Signature read as 'Macías'. Translation by Claude, not checked by a fluent reader.
