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The municipality of Casas de Millán (606 inhabitants in 2017; 15,291 ha; municipal website) is located 50 km north of Cáceres.
Casas de Millán is the birth place of Gabriel Trejo y Paniagua (1562-1630), created Cardinal in 1615 by Pope Paul V and appointed Archbishop of Salerno in 1625, also ambassador of Spain in Rome; of the Jesuit missionary Miguel del Barco (1706-1790), whose writings on Baja California, rediscovered in 1973, were the main source of Francisco Javier Clavijero's Historia de la Antigua o Baja California; and of the hermit Francisco de Paniagua (d. 1636), who initiated the cult of Our Lady of the Mountain, Cáceres' patron saint in a chapel he built from 1621 to 1626 to keep a small statue of the Montserrat Virgin.
Ivan Sache, 20 March 2020
The flag of Casas de Millán, adopted on 31 January 1987 by the Municipal Council and validated on 19 June 1987 by the Royal Academy of History, is prescribed by an Order issued on 7 July 1987 by the Government of Extremadura and published on 14 July 1987 in the official gazette of Extremadura, No. 55, p. 909 (text).
The flag is described as follows:
Flag: On a white field, the coat of arms of the municipality and "Casas de Millán".
The coat of arms of Casas de Millán, adopted on 23 February 1986 by the Municipal Council and validated on 27 June 1986 by the Royal Academy of History, is prescribed by an Order issued on 23 July 1986 by the Government of Extremadura and published on 5 August 1985 in the official gazette of Extremadura, No. 64, p. 955 (text).
The coat of arms is described as follows:
Coat of arms: Argent an escutcheon gules charged with a castle or masoned sable port and windows azure supported by waves argent and azure the lateral towers surmounted by branches vert the escutcheon superimposed to a Cross of Saint James. The shield surmounted by a Royal crown closed.
Ivan Sache, 20 March 2020
