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The municipality of Fuente el Sáuz (251 inhabitants in 2006; 981 ha; 878 m a.s.l.) is located 52 km north-west of Àvila. The population of the village peaked at 450 in 1960. The local hero is Bishop Alonso Suárez de la Fuente del Sauce (d. 1520), appointed Inquisitor General in 1494, Bishop of Mondoñedo (1463), Lugo (1494) and Jaén (1500). Due to a quarrel between his family and the municipality of Jaén, the bishop rested as a mummy locked in a frame for four centuries, being properly buried only in 2001.
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Ivan Sache, 01 Feb 2009
The flag and arms of Fuente el Sáuz are prescribed by a Municipal Decree issued on 2 July 2003 following adoption by the Municipal Council on 1 July 2003, and published in the provincial official gazette No. 129, 11 July 2003.
The flag is in proportions 2:3, vertically divided yellow-white (1:2) with an embattled vertical green stripe along the hoist and the municipal coat of arms in the white field.
Ivan Sache, 01 Feb 2009
The coat of arms is: "Of Spanish shape, gules an hexagonal fountain of drinking tank argent with two zoomorphic pipes supplying waves argent and azure surmonted by a willow proper fimbriated or. The shield surmonted by a Royal Spanish crown."
The arms are canting, the name of the village meaning The Willow's (in Spanish, "sauce") Fountain (in Spanish, "fuente").
Drawings of the flag and arms can be seen on the municipal website.
Ivan Sache, 01 Feb 2009