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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Any Jewelry, post: 285743, member: 2844&quot;]I don&#039;t know in which part of Spain these were painted, but you&#039;ll find the name Llorente, like Lorente, all over Spain. The Catalan version is Llorent, without the end e. Our Llorente and Lorente friends are all Castilian born (Madrid), but, coincidentally, all of Andaluz origin.</p><p><br /></p><p>Red and yellow are also the colours of the Spanish flag, and double l also features in other Spanish languages and dialects. For instance &#039;llorar&#039;, which is what those Italian crying children are doing.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/wink.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=";)" unselectable="on" /></p><p>The boy&#039;s sweater has 6 red stripes. The Senyera, or Catalan flag, has 4.</p><p>The exact number of stripes of the Senyera is extremely significant, because they stand for the bloodied fingers which Raymond Berengarius II, an 11th century count of Barcelona, wiped on the golden cloak of his assassin when he was murdered.</p><p>Not only that, but the four red bands run across a yellow background, so the first and last bands are always yellow, for the golden cloak of the assassin. The first and last bands on the sweater are red, as in the Spanish flag.</p><p>Much as I support the Catalans, in fact precisely because I support the Catalans, I cannot recognize the sweater as a representation of the Senyera.</p><p><br /></p><p>The Celtic part of Spain, Galicia, is in the far west of Spain, Catalunya in the east.</p><p><br /></p><p>The flea market in Madrid could be el Rastro, the most famous one. My brother also sold some of his crafts there during his student days in Spain.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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