by Blas Delgado and Thanh-Tâm Le , 13 Febuary 2000
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by Blas Delgado and Thanh-Tâm Le , 13 Febuary
2000
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The image on the Lexjuris
site has a five-pointed star, whereas the text clearly refers
to an eight-pointed star. This city of 57,000 inhabitants was
founded in 1751. The star or "lucero" refers to the
tradition of the apparition in Santiago de Compostela, following
the Spanish heraldical tradition.
Thanh-Tâm Le' , 13 January 1999
Full name: San Fernando de Toa Alta. According to welcome.topuertorico.org
site , it is called La Cuna de Poetas. Toa Alta was founded in
1751.
Jarig Bakker, 6 Febuary 2000
According to Dr. Delgado, Toa Alta's current flag has
a five-pointed star, the 8-pointed one might be a previous
version. Dr. Delgado's 8-pointed star is different from mine
based on Lexjuris
site.
Thanh-Tâm Le , 13 Febuary 2000
Flag according to text at Lexjuris
site
by Thanh-Tâm Le , 13 January 1999
Flag according to image at Lexjuris
site
by Thanh-Tâm Le , 13 January 1999
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by Nelson Román, 2 August 2004
Toa Alta (TO-ah AHL-tah) was founded during the year of 1751,
under the government of Agustín Parejas. The parish was
constituted under the patronage of Our Lady of the Conception and
San Fernando. The name "Toa" is claimed to be the name
that the Taíno Indians gave to the present river "Río de
la Plata". This word in the language of the Taínos also
means "mother" and frequently was written as
"Thoa".
The shield in gold, a red board with a silver sword topped with a
gold crown of the same metal, to each side two small shields in
red, the right-hand one with a tower in gold and the left-hand
one with a gold eight point star, a three tower crown lined in
black with red openings. Motto: Non Deserit Alta. The sword and
the crown represent San Bernardo Rey, patron of Toa Alta, and
refer to the reconquest campaigns and the high spirit of justice
of this monarch, sovereign of Castile and Leon. The right small
shield represents the Virgin Mary, co-patron of the town in its
title of Immaculate Conception, and the tower to Santa Barbara,
virgin and martyr, also co-patron of Toa Alta. The left small
shield the star with eight rays, besides being a symbol already
popularized, particularly in sports of the town of Toa Alta,
refers to the heroic toalte?os, Jose and Francisco Diaz, who were
covered with glory in Hato Rey (1797) fighting against the
English invaders and giving Jose his life in defense of the King
and the Mother country next to the Martín Peña bridge. In the
Spanish heraldic the star is symbol of the last name Diaz...
which means "Son of Diego" by the entailment of this
name, that also means "Son of Santiago", with the
tradition of the appearance in Santiago de Compostela, of the
star that revealed the place of the tomb of the Apostle patron of
Spain. The crown is a civic or municipal standard. Toa Alta has
three towers which denotes its category of "town". The
Motto Non Deserit Alta, which translated from Latin means
"Does not abandon high things".
Source: <www.linktopr.com>.
Nelson Román, 2 August 2004
