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The municipality of Dílar (1,680 inhabitants in 2008; 8,900 ha) is located on the foot of the Sierra Nevada, 10 km south of Granada.
A dolmen, surrounded by a cromlech, excavated in 1850, proves that the area of Dílar was already settled in the Prehistoric times. In 1125, King Alfonso I the Battler besieged Dílar, and eventually expelled the Moorish governor Temin Ben Yusuf on 9 March 1126. From 1484 onwards, the place was fiercely disputed by the Moors and the Christians stationed upstream the town of Gabia; the castle of Dílar was seized on 24 October 1491 by Pablo Díaz y Ximenez.
Source: Municipal website
Ivan Sache, 16 Jul 2009
The flag and arms of Dílar were approved by the Municipal Council on 24 June 2005 and submitted the same day to the General Directorate of Local Administration, which confirmed them by Decree on 14 July 2005, published in the Andalusian official gazette (Boletín Oficial de la Junta de Andalucía, BOJA) No. 146 on 28 July 2005.
The relevant parts of the Decree are the following:
Coat of arms: Shield divided per fess the lower part divided per pale, and grafted in base. 1. Azure a Pico de Veleta* argent on fesses wavy azure and argent. 2. Gules the hermitage of the Virgin of the Snows**. 3. Vert a "sera"*** with two handles of esparto or. Grafted in base azure the flower of the snows argent. The shield surmounted with a Royal crown closed. Flag: Rectangular flag in proportions 2:3, made of three equal horizontal stripes, the two outer white and the central blue, charged with a white flower of the snows.
*Pico de Veleta (3,392 m) harbours the southernmost glacier in Europe; the road reaching the top of the peak is one of the highest mountain roads in Europe. The IRAM 30-3 Milimeter Radio Telescope of Pico Veleta, the largest milimeter telescope in the world, is built on the mountain (2,850 m).
**Nuestra Señora Virgen de las Nieves is the patron saint of Dílar; the hermitage was built in 1717.
***a "sera" is a basket made of esparto, used in the past to transport coal.
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. 146, pp. 46-47, 28 Jul 2005
According to the municipal website, the upper stripe represents the Sierra Nevada, the blue stripe represents river Dílar, which unites the sierra and the villagers, and the lower stripe represents the characteristic architecture of the mountain villages.
Source: Municipal website
The flower of the snows is _Plantago nivalis_ Boiss., a species endemic of the Sierra Nevada (that is, found nowhere else in the wild) and, therefore, the symbol of the Sierra Nevada.
Source: http://waste.ideal.es/estrelladelasnieves.htm
Ivan Sache, 16 Jul 2009