BLAS INFANTE

Blas Infante was a very important Andalusian because he wrote the Anthem of Andalusia. He had the idea of adopting a GREEN AND WHITE flag, documented in Al-Ándalus (the name of the region during the Moorish occupation) and a coat of arms with Hercules on it, inspired by that of Cadiz, which would together be called " The emblems of Andalusia ". Infante proposed using the tune of the popular religious song “Santo Dios”, sung by the peasants at harvest time, as the Anthem of Andalusia, inventing his own lyrics