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![[Smaller Local Entity of Aldea de Fuente Carreteros / Fuente Carreteros (Province of Córdoba, Andalusia, Spain)]](../images/e/es-co-fc.gif)
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image by Ivan Sache after the image at the municipal website, 08 Aug 2009
The "Entidad de ámbito Territorial Inferior al Municipio" (Submunicipal entity) of Aldea de Fuente Carreteros (locally known as Fuente Carreteros; 1,227 inhabitants in 2007; 1,028 ha) is part of the municipality of Fuente Palmera, Province of Córdoba. The status of submunicipal entity was granted on 7 March 1989. The name of the village (lit., The Carters' Fountain) recalls a fountain used by the carters transporting chestnut timber from Constantina to the Ecija market.
Fuente Carreteros has two dances registered as of "Andalusian National Touristic Interest," the Dance of the Lunatics ("Baile de los Locos"), and the Dance of the Bear ("Danza del Oso"), probably of Central European origin. The two dances must recall a very ancient ritual of symbolic expelling of bad guys from the community.
Source: Fuente Palmera municipal website
The local flag and arms (sic) of Aldea de Fuente Carreteros were approved by the Local Council on 15 January 2004 and submitted to the General Directorate of Local Administration, which confirmed them by Decree on 17 May 2004, published in the Andalusian official gazette (Boletín Oficial de la Junta de Andalucía, BOJA) No. 117 on 16 June 2004.
The relevant parts of the Decree are the following:
Shield: Divided in to quarters, one in the chief (top) and the other in base (bottom). In chief, on the viewer's left: an olive branch and a wheat spike; on the viewer's right: a component of the Lunatics' Dance. In base, two ancient carts drawn by oxen, crossing each other; the wheel common to both carts forming a fountain pouring water. The shield surmounted with a Royal crown [closed].Flag: Divided in two triangular parts by a diagonal line; the upper triangular part is green with the coat of arms of Fuente Carreteros in its left zone. The lower triangular part is white; in its right zone are six red five-pointed stars forming a circle.
The symbols should be registered on the Andalusian Register of Local Entities, with their official written description and graphics (as originally submitted, but unfortunately not apprended to the Decree).
Source: BOJA No. 117, p. 13,330, 06 Jun 2004
Ivan Sache, 08 Aug 2009
The "Entidad Local Áutonoma" (Submunicipal entity) of Dehesas Viejas (lit. "The Old Pastures"; 826 inhabitants in 2007), located 40 km north of Granada, is part of the municipality of Iznalloz.
The flag and arms of Dehesas Viejas were approved by the Local Council on 14 February 2005 and submitted on 22 February 2005 to the General Directorate of Local Administration, which confirmed them by Decree on 1 March 2005, published in the Andalusian official gazette (Boletín Oficial de la Junta de Andalucía, BOJA) No. 52 on 15 March 2005.
The relevant parts of the Decree are the following:
Coat of arms: Or an oak vert flanked in chief by a crescent and a cross all gules. A chief vert separated by wheat spikes the facade of an estate argent roofed gules. The shield surmounted with a Royal crown closed.Flag: Panel in proportions 2/3, green, divided in three vertical stripes separated with wheat spikes. The central stripe 3/5, yellow with a green oak. The lateral stripes 1/5, both green.
The symbols should be registered on the Andalusian Register of Local Entities, with their official written description and graphics (as originally submitted, but unfortunately not appended to the Decree).
Source: BOJA No. 52, p. 78, 15 Mar 2005
The coat of arms is shown on the village website.
The flag shown on the village blog does not match the official description.
Ivan Sache, 20 Sep 2009
The "Entidad Local Áutonoma" (Submunicipal entity) of Domingo Pérez, located 45 km north of Granada, is part of the municipality of Iznalloz.
In the Moorish times, the site of Domingo Pérez was settled by the "alquería" (estate) of Baraila, a group of houses without fortifications and with property rights shared among different owners. After the reconquest of the Kingdom of Granada, the Christian Kings completely reorganized their new territories and granted the old "alquería" to Christian colonists. In 1511, Domingo Pérez de Herrasti, an hidalgo of Basque origin, was granted territories by Letters Patented; from 1511 to 1530, he was able to increase his domain up to an area of c. 1,000 ha, encompassing most of the estates of the region. Pérez appointed 16 colonists, who built their houses near the source of Aynotafe; named after its founder, the new settlement was subsequently incorporated into the town of Iznalloz. In 1544, Pérez bequeathed the village to his son Francisco, who built a manor, revamped the source and founded the parish church dedicated to St. Mark.
On 4 March 2003, the Government of Andalusia granted the status of "Entitad Local Autónoma" to Domingo Pérez by a Decree No. 59/2003, published in the Andalusian official gazette on 21 March 2003.
Source: Village website
The flag and arms of Domingo Pérez were approved by the Local Council on 6 May 2005 and submitted on 10 May 2005 to the General Directorate of Local Administration, which confirmed them by Decree on 18 May 2005, published in the Andalusian official gazette (Boletín Oficial de la Junta de Andalucía, BOJA) No. 106 on 2 June 2005.
The relevant parts of the Decree are the following:
Coat of arms: Spanish shield; or a fess wavy azure, charged with a belt wavy argent; flanked: in chief by a high pillar gules, with two water pipes argent and a Marquis' coronet proper; in base by a tree vert with a rabbit gules. The shield surmounted with a Spanish Royal crown closed.Flag: Panel in proportions 2/3, yellow, with a blue wavy fess wavy charged with a white wavy belt; flanked: in the upper part by a red high pillar, with two white water pipes and a Marquis' coronet in its colours; in the lower part by a green tree with a red rabbit.
The symbols should be registered on the Andalusian Register of Local Entities, with their official written description and graphics (as originally submitted, but unfortunately not appended to the Decree).
Source: BOJA No. 106, p. 37, 02 Jun 2005
According to the village website, the new symbols were officially unveiled on 7 October 2005. Colour photos taken during the ceremony partially show the flag. Source: domingoperez.com
The coat of arms can be seen on colour photos taken during the Cultural Week.
Ivan Sache, 20 Sep 2009
According to "El Periodico de Aragón," the village of Ontinar del Salz has adopted its first symbols (flag and arms).
The article is fairly short and I am copying it below in order not to lose too much in translation:
Ontinar de Salz dispone ya de una bandera y un escudo propios, diseñados ambos con los símbolos más típicos de la localidad. El alcalde de Ontinar, Santiago Azón, se mostró muy orgulloso de estrenar el primer escudo y la primera bandera de este municipio de reciente creación, ya que se trata de un pueblo de colonización que se formó hace apenas 56 años. Actualmente está considerado una entidad local menor dependiente de Zuera.En el escudo aparecen varios elementos muy vinculados a Ontinar: el río y las aguas, la ontina con cinco ramas, el cabrio invertido --que alude al barranco de la Violada, cercano a la población--, la cabeza de colono --que representa a los colonos que poblaron el municipio a mediados del siglo XX--, y la paloma de plata, símbolo de la relación de Ontinar con la Virgen del Salz y con la localidad de Zuera. Por otra parte, en la bandera, que es de paño azul con una perla verde fileteada de blanco, aparece también una ontina arrancada de oro con ocho ramas.
Source: El Periodico de Aragón
Ontinar del Salz is an "entidad local" depending on the "municipio" of Zuera, located near Zaragoza, the capital city of Aragón. If I understand correctly the above text, Ontinar del Salz was settled only 56 years ago. See the municipal website.
Ivan Sache, 22 Jul 2005
El Real Cortijo de San Isidro (518 inhabitants; 1,126 ha), a former Royal estate (cortijo) was made a "minor local entity" by Decree on 23 August 1957. The village is administratively part of the Municipality of Aranjuez (49,920 inh.), but has its own Village Council.
On 14 July 2008, the Village Council approved a flag and a coat of arms and commissioned a specialist in urbanism to increase its competency on that matter.
These decisions were considered as "independentist" and caused the wrath of the Municipal Council of Aranjuez, that claimed that the Village Council legally had no competency on these matters. A formal complaint against the Mayor of El Real Cortijo de San Isidro for "corrupt practices" has been logged at the Madrid Community, which should be assessed in September 2008.
None of the sources I have consulted gives details on the symbols of El Real Cortijo de San Isidro, unfortunately.
(Not so oddly enough, the main source of anger does not seem to be the adoption of local symbols but the urbanism question. Knowing that El Real Cortijo de San Isidro, an agricultural village, is located only 6 km from the town of Aranjuez, I understand that the "urbanistic independence" claimed by the village probably does not match the urbanization plans of Aranajuez.)
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Ivan Sache, 24 Aug 2008
![[Smaller Local Entity of Valderrubio (Extremadura, Spain)]](../images/e/es-gr-va.gif)
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image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 14 Jul 2009
N.B.: reconstructed image, no original seen
The "Entidad Local Ãutonoma" (Submunicipal entity) of Valderrubio, located 25 km west of Granada, is part of the municipality of Pinos Puente.
The name of Valderrubio was granted to the village, formerly known as Asquerosa, by the Municipal Council of Pinos Puente on 29 January 1943; the new name was confirmed by the Spanish Government on 12 June 1943 and "inaugurated" on 15 August 1943 in a ceremony presided by the Archbishop of Granada. Vaderrubio means "The Valley of Virginia Tobacco" ("rubio" means "blond" in Spanish, where Virginia tobacco is known as "blond tobacco"), referring to the main crop in the village. Asquerosa was known in the Moorish times as "Qariat al-Šakrūŷa," an Arabization of the Latin "Aquae Rosae" ("Roses' Water"), later transformed to "Axcorocha" (14th century), "Escuraja" (1431), "Ascorosa" (1531) and eventually "Asquerosa" (1587). Indeed, the villagers were fed up being called "asquerosos," which literally means "scuzzy guys."
The poet Federico GarcÃa Lorca, born in the neighbouring village of Fuente Vaqueros in 1898, spent his youth in Asquerosa. His early poems and several of his most important works ("La Casa de Bernarda Alba," "La Zapatera," "Prodigiosa o Doña Rosita la Soltera") were directly inspired by Asquerosa. The house where the poet stayed has been transormed in a museum.
Source: Municipal website
The flag and arms of Valderrubio were approved by the Local Council on 31 May 2006 and submitted on 2 June 2006 to the General Directorate of Local Administration, which confirmed them by Decree on 9 June 2006, published in the Andalusian official gazette (BoletÃn Oficial de la Junta de AndalucÃa, BOJA) No. 120 on 23 June 2006.
The relevant parts of the Decree are the following:
Coat of arms: Spanish shield. Vert, a tobacco plant and a tree, all or; in base, two waves argent, the upper surmounted by a three-peaked mountain argent, the central peak higher; mantelé in chief or a phoenix bird sable nascent from flames gules. The shield surmounted with a Spanish Royal crown closed.Flag: Panel in proportions 3:2, green, with a yellow triangle placed along the hoist and reaching the middle of the flag. A green tobacco plant in the triangle.
The symbols should be registered on the Andalusian Register of Local Entities, with their official written description and graphics (as originally submitted, but unfortunately not apprended to the Decree).
Source: BOJA No. 120, pp. 23-24, 23 Jun 2006
The coat of arms is shown in Wikipedia, credited to "Juliooo."
Ivan Sache, 10 Jul 2009
The village of Valdesimonte is part of the municipality of Cantalejo, located 50 km north-east of Segovia.
Valdesimonte was mentioned for the first time, as Valle de Simeon, in a document dated 13 August 1192, in which King of Castile and Toledo Alfonso VIII (1155-1214, crowned in 1158) confirmed the rights of the monastery of Santo Tomé del Puerto on several villages in the region. The rights of the monastery were further by Fernando III (1199-1252), King of Castile in 1271 and of Léon in 1230. On 2 August 1424, Pedro Fernandez, Vicar of Sepúlveda, transferred several villages, including Valdesimonte, to the municipal administration of Sepúlveda.
The historiana and chronicler Diego de Colmenares (1586-1651) served as the parish priest in Valdesimonte from 1611 to 1617. He has remained famous for his Historia de la insigne Ciudad de Segovia y compendio de las historias de Castilla (History of the famous Town of Segovia and compendium of the history of Castile), which he published in 1637 after 14 years of work; Colmenares' history of Segovia covers the time period between the Deluge and 7 November 162, including the foundation of Spain (as Hispania) by patriarch Tubal (the son of Japhet and grandson of Noah) and of Segovia by Hercules.
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To preserve its identity in spite of the merging into the municipality of Cantalejo, the village of Valdesimonte decided to a adopt a flag and a coat of arms. The symbols of the village were unveiled on 19 July 2008 and blessed during a mass. Afterwards, the village mayor, Ángel Benito, explained the meaning of the symbols, which were designed by the heraldist and vexillologist Vicente Tocino and the historian Juan Cuéllar. The shield is argent with, in chief, a 12- pointed star azure, representing the Blessed Virgin of the Assumption, the patron saint of the town, in base, a fountain gules, representing the Fountain of the Commons, dexter, a pine vert, and sinister, an oak vert, the two trees representing the village's territory. The flag is bordered with 12 white stars on a blue field surrounding the two tress from the coat of arms on a white field. Following the ceremony, the villagers were invited to enjoy a paella prepared by the mayor himself.
The story was reported on 23 July 2008 in "El Norte," with a colour photography of the mayor and the parish priest presenting the coat of arms in the church, but, alas, no image of the flag. From the above description, I guess that the flag is white with a blue border charged with 12 white stars and the two trees in the middle. Neither image nor aroma of the paella, either :-)
(Yet another example of wise adoption process of a symbols, involving specialists but also concerned citizens.)
Source: El Norte, 23 Jul 2008
Ivan Sache, 23 Jul 2008
![[Smaller Local Entity of Vegaviana (Extremadura, Spain)]](../images/e/es-ex-vv.gif)
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image by Ivan Sache, 21 Feb 2007
The "entidad local menor" (smaller local entity; 959 inhabitants) of Vegaviana, located in Extremadura and currently in the process of seceding from Moraleja, has officially adopted a flag and a coat of arms, reports M. Pascual in "El Periódico Extremadura."
The designs of the symbols of the village were presented in August 2005 for the celebrationb of the 50th anniversary of the foundation of the village, and have been recently adopted by the competent authority, El Consejo Asesor de Honores y Distinciones de la Dirección General de Administración Local.
The flag is horizontally divided into five red-white-red-white-red stripes. According to the picture of the flag presented by the Mayor shown on the source, the white stripes are thinner than the red and green stripes. Juan Caro, Mayor of Vegaviana, explained the colours as green for irrigation, orange red for the roof tiles and white for lime, which was at the origin of the foundation of the village. The image on the source is too small to see the exact shade of red, and I have kept a standard red on my image.
The coat of arms has a green field and is divided per bend by seven white houses with a red roof; in chief a cork oak or on sinister and a lion rampant of the same; in point; three wavy bends argent. The shield is surmounted by a Royal crown. According to Caro, the lion was taken from the coat of arms of the mother municipality of Moraleja.
Source: El Periódico Extremadura, 04 Apr 2006
Ivan Sache, 21 Feb 2007
Villoslada (119 inhabitants, aka Villoslada de la Trinidad) is a "minor entity" of the municipality of Santa María la Real de Nieva, Province of Segovia. The main monument of Villoslada is the single – naved church of St. Michael of Párraces, built in Romanesque style in the 13th century.
Source: Municipal website
On 4 December 2008, "El Norte" reports the adoption of the flag and arms of Villoslada. A public competition for the village symbols was launched on 27 September 2007. The winning proposal, designed by the villager Víctor Manuel Sastre Jiménez, was forwarded to Alfonso Ceballos-Escalera Gila, Herald of Arms of Castile and Leon, who suggested modifications to match the rules of vexillology and heraldry.
On 20 October 2008, following reception of the last comments by the Herald of Arms, the Village Council definitively approved the flag and arms of the village.
The flag and arms will be officially unveiled on 6 December 2008, the day of the village patron saint, St. Nicholas of Bari.
Source: El Norte, 04 Dec 2008
Ivan Sache, 07 Dec 2008
"El Adelantado" reports the official presentation of the symbols of Villoslada: the flag is with proportions 2:3, crimson red and charged in the middle with the municipal coat of arms.
The coat of arms is "Per fess, 1a. Azure a shepherd's staff ("garrota") and a sling ("banda") argent from which holds a shepherd's bag ("zurrón") of the same, 1b. Gules a two-story aqueduct argent masoned sable on ten rocks of the same, 2. Vert the St. Michael of Párraces or flanked by wheat spikes of the same."
The first quarter is a tribute to the founders of the village, founded in 1088 by emigrants from Villoslada de Camaros, then part of the Kingdom of Navarra and today part of the Autonomous Community of La Rioja. The crossed shepherd's staff and bag have been borrowed to the coat of arms of Villoslada de Camaros*.
The second quarter recalls that Villoslada belonged to the Community of the Town and Land of Segovia, as the capital of the "sexmo" (administrative division made of several villages) of La Trinidad. The aquaduct was borrowed from the coat of arms of Segovia. The third quarter represents Villoslada proper, with the St. Michael of Párraces hermitage and the wheat spikes symbolizing agriculture. The shield is surmonted by a Spanish Royal crown.
Source: El Adelanto, showing a colour drawing of the coat of arms, but not the flag
Footnotes:
Ivan Sache, 08 Dec 2008
