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The municipality of Pozorrubio de Santiago (355 inhabitants in 2014; 4,466 ha) is located 100 km south-west of Cuenca.
Ivan Sache, 1 July 2019
The flag of Pozorrubio de Santiago is prescribed by an Order issued on 2
April 2014 by the Government of Castilla-La Mancha and published on 30
April 2014 in the official gazette of Castilla-La Mancha, No. 81, p. 11,118 (text).
The flag is described as follows:
Flag: Banner quartered diagonally, the 1st quarter, along the hoist, and the 3rd quarter, gules, the 2nd and 4th quarters, argent. In the center, the coat of arms of the town of Pozorrubio de Santiago.
The coat of arms of Pozorrubio de Santiago is prescribed by an Order issued on 31 March 2005 by the Government of Castilla-La Mancha and published on 13 April 2005 in the official gazette of Castilla-La Mancha, No. 74, p. 6,912 (text).
Coat of arms: Per pale, 1. Or a well-noria gules pouring water azure, 2. Argent a Cross of the Order of Santiago gules. Grafted in chief vert a parchment or, alluding to the Commandery of Pozorrubio, depositor of the documents of the Order of Saint James [Crown not mentioned].
The red (rubio) well (pozo) and the Cross of St. James (Santiago)
form a kind of rebus of the place name.
The Royal Academy of History rejected the proposed arms. The supporting
memoir, comprehensive and full of details of all kind, lacks reference
to the proposed arms, which are not described, either. On the attached
drawing, the representation of the charges is unacceptable; the rolled
document, too realistic, is totally unknown to traditional heraldry. So
is the complex representation of the well-noria. The cross-sword is the
emblem of the knights of the Order of Saint James but cannot be used to
represent the Order in compliance with good heraldic tradition.
[Boletín de la Real Academia de la Historia 202:1, 165]
Ivan Sache, 1 July 2019
