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The municipality of La Cumbre (884 inhabitants in 2017; 11,352 ha; municipal website) is located 40 km east of Cáceres and 15 km south-west of Trujillo. The village is located on the highest point (481 m asl; Spanish, cumbre) of a plateau stretching westwards from Trujillo.
La Cumbre was settled in the 7th century BC by Vetton shepherds. After the Roman conquest the Casilla estate remained a dependency of the town of Turgalium (Trujillo) until the 5th century; an engraved stone mentions the Norba family as the owners of the estate.
In 1519, La Cumbre was acquired by Pedro Barrantes, a knight who had settled in Trujillo for a while.
Ivan Sache, 20 March 2020
The flag and arms of La Cumbre, adopted on 19 July 1989 by the Municipal Council and validated on 8 March 1991 by the Royal Academy of History, are prescribed by an Order issued on 9 April 1991 by the Government of Extremadura and published on 16 April 1991 in the official gazette of Extremadura, No. 28, p. 790 (text).
The symbols are described as follows:
Flag: Quadrangular, green with a diagonal white stripe whose highest point is placed along the hoist. Charged in the center with the crowned municipal coat of arms.
Coat of arms: Gules a bend or engulfed by green dragons surrounded by two mounts argent. The shield surmounted by a Royal crown closed.
The Royal Academy validated the proposed symbols "without any difficulty". The coat of arms features the engulfed bend of the Barrantes, lords of La Cumbre since 1568. The mounts form a graphic representation of the toponym.
[Boletín de la Real Academia de la Historia. 1991. 188:2, 379]
According to Gran Enciclopedia de España, the Barrantes are a very ancient lineage from Santiago de Barrantes (Pontevedra, Galicia). A branch moved to Extremadura, where it allied with the Orellana lineage, while another branch went to America.
Ivan Sache, 20 March 2020
