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The municipality of Vilches (5,005 inhabitants in 2007; 27,400 ha) is located 80 km north-east of Jaén.
The natural monument El Piélago (registered on 1 October 2001) is located on the municipal territories of Vilches and Linares. It includes the Roman bridge of Vadollano, once part of the Via Augusta linking Rome to Gadès (Cádiz). Downstream from the bridge, river Guarrizos flows into a deep granitic gorge with a series of small cascades.
Source: www.juntadeandalucia.es
Ivan Sache, 29 Jun 2009
The flag, arms and seal of Vilches were approved by the Municipal Council and submitted on 24 March 2009 to the General Directorate of Local Administration, which confirmed them by Decree on 24 April 2009, published in the Andalusian official gazette (Boletín Oficial de la Junta de Andalucía, BOJA) No. 87 on 8 May 2009.
The relevant parts of the Decree are the following:
Coat of arms: Quarterly. In the first quarter: Gules or red, a castle or, creneled, ports and windows azure or blue and masoned sable or black. Per pale argent a lion rampant purple, langued, and armed gules red and crowned or. In the second quarter: Or four pallets gules or red. Per pale gules or red, a chain or placed per cross, saltire and orle, charged in the middle with an emerald proper, that is sinople or green. In the third quarter: Gules or red a crescent argent. Charged with a Latin cross or. In the fourth quarter: Azure or blue, a signaling pennant, a bishop's crozier and a halberd or. In the middle, an oval escutcheon azure with three fleurs-de-lis or or yellow placed two and one; a border of gules or red, proper to the reigning dynasty. The shield with a Spanish border, surmounted by a Royal crown closed.Flag: Tafetta flag, square, the lower corners rounded off, with an heraldic design based on triangular shapes, which, grouped by four, form diamond-shaped elements, coloured in turn gules or red, azure or blue, sinople or green and white, without contiguous triangles of the same colour. Diagonally divided in four fields by a saltire azure (a particular cross made of the superimposing of a bend and a bend sinister); the bend charged with four crosses of Calatrava, two or or yellow and two gules or red and at the ends two lions rampant or; the bend sinister charged with four Crosses of Calatrava gules and two lions rampant or at the ends.
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. 37, pp. 65, 08 May 2009
Ivan Sache, 29 Jun 2009