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Municipality of Calicasas (Granada Province, Andalusia, Spain)

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image by Ivan Sache, 08 Jul 2009

Introduction
Description

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Introduction

The municipality of Calicasas (589 inhabitants in 2008; 1,125 ha) is located in the Granada Plain, 15 km north of the provincial capital.

Calicasas is written as "Calicatro" on a Roman stone bearing the names of different colonies. During the Moorish period, the village was named "Quarynat-Al-Qannar" or "Galiqayay," that is "The Houses of the Rooster." After the Christian reconquest, the village was remaned "Cal y Casas," referring to the quarries of lime ("caleras") found around the village.

Source: Municipal website

Ivan Sache, 08 Jul 2009

Description

The flag and arms of Calicasas were approved by the Municipal Council on 10 November 2005 and submitted on 1 December 2005 to the General Directorate of Local Administration, which confirmed them by Decree on 15 December 2005, published in the Andalusian official gazette (Boletín Oficial de la Junta de Andalucía, BOJA) No. 2 on 4 January 2006.

The relevant parts of the Decree are the following:

Coat of arms: Shield divided per fess and grafted in base. 1. Gules a three-arched aqueduct argent masoned sable. 2. Vert two houses argent masoned sable placed per pale. Grafted in base per fess wavy azure and argent. The shield surmounted with a Royal crown closed.

Flag: Rectangular flag in proportions 2:3, made of a white isosceles triangle stretching from the hoist to the middle of the fly, superimposed a blue isosceles triangle stretching from the hoist to the middle of the flag, the triangles at fly being red on top and green on borttom.

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. 2, p. 28, 04 Jan 2006

Ivan Sache, 08 Jul 2009