Cradle of the Buenos Aires flag

 

BUENOS AIRES FLAG

The model designed by Rossi, Esteban Carrasco, Facundo Bailo, Matías Iribarne and Fernando Barroso, then students at the Mateo Gelicich and Domingo Faustino Sarmiento schools, in the municipality of Capitán Sarmiento, won with 75 percent of the votes in the final vote. in 8,000 Buenos Aires educational establishments.

When they decided to participate in a contest at their Captain Sarmiento school, they did not know that they were about to make history: their design was the winner in 1997 and thus the flag of the province of Buenos Aires was born, which we know today, in light blue, green, red and yellow.