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Municipality of Fuentes de Andalucía (Seville Province, Andalusia, Spain)

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image by Ivan Sache with coat of arms from the municipal website, 30 Jun 2009
N.B.: reconstructed image, no original seen

Introduction
Description
Coat of Arms

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Introduction

The municipality of Fuentes de Andalucía (7,360 inhabitants in 2008; 15,018 ha) is located 60 km west of Seville.

The name of Fuentes de Andalucia, coined on 10 March 1778 by lawyer Mifuel de Padilla Infante, became usual in 1791. The municipality was formed by the merging of the former feudal domains of Fuentes and Monclova.

Transferred in 1316 by King Alfonso XI, the castle and domain of Fuentes, originally built by the Moors, belonged to Alvar Pérez de Guzmán, Alguacil Mayor (Chancellor) of Seville. On 15 February 1606, Philip III granted the Marquisate of Fuentes to Gome de Fuentes Guzmán, Knight of the Order of Santiago. The probable site of the Iberic town of Obúlcula described by Ptolemy, Monclova was transfered by King Alfonso XI to Gil Bocanegra, a Genovese seaman appointed the 17th Admiral of Castile, as a reward for the seizure of Algeciras from the Moors. The castle of Monclova, once a Roman "castrum," was used in all the subsequent war episodes which took place in the region. When peace resumed, it was transformed in a palace by the lord of Fuentes.

Source: Wikipedia

Ivan Sache, 30 Jun 2009

Description

The flag and arms of Fuentes de Andalucía were approved by the Municipal Council on 2 November 2007 and submitted on 28 January 2008 to the General Directorate of Local Administration, which confirmed them by Decree on 6 February 2008, published in the Andalusian official gazette (Boletín Oficial de la Junta de Andalucía, BOJA) No. 104 on 19 February 2009.

The relevant parts of the Decree are the following:

Coat of arms: Spanish shield, divided per pale. In the right part, or a castle gules port and windows and masoned sable. In the left part, azure a fountain argent. The shield surmounted by a Royal crown.

Flag: Rectangular flag in proportions 3:2, made of two vertical stripes of equal size, blue at hoist and yellow at fly with the municipal arms in the middle.

The flag should be registered on the Andalusian Register of Local Entities, with its official written description and graphics (as originally submitted, but unfortunately not apprended to the Decree).

Source: BOJA No. 104, p. 34 , 19 Feb 2008

Ivan Sache, 30 Jun 2009

Coat of Arms

The municipal website (in construction) shows the municipal coat of arms: Wikipedia shows a completely different design, credited to "Dni626," either wrong or obsolete.

The fountain is canting for the name of the town (in Spanish, "fuentes" means "fountains").

Ivan Sache, 30 Jun 2009