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The municipality of Yémeda (23 inhabitants in 2015; 2,908 ha) is located in the Province of Cuenca.
Yémeda was once famous for its spa, whose healing water was awarded a
prize in 1878 at the Paris Universal Exhibition. According to a report
of the time, the water "produces in the organism a stimulus or general
excitation, which triggers diverse movements or conjunction of phenomena
in the digestive and uro-genital systems, in the nervous and circulatory
systems, and in external tegument (skin)". The water was recommended to
heal alopecia, scabies, parasitic diseases, painful scars and scrofulous
and syphilitic dermatosis, as well as digestive diseases, bronchitis,
rheumatism, anemia...
Abandoned in 1978, the spa was expected to be reactivated in 2017, after
the Provincial Council had allocated in November 2015 an additional
480,000 euros to the rehabilitation. The project was initiated when the
owner of the spa, Antonio Felipe Bonilla, offered it to the municipality
of Yémeda. The Mayor, Manuel Martínez Escribano, obtained provincial
funding to clear the vegetation and restore the old hotel. The
additional funds should be used to restore the tower of the spa and to
furnish the hotel.
[La Tribuna de Cuenca, 29 November 2015]
Ivan Sache, 12 July 2019
The flag and arms of Yémeda are prescribed by an Order issued on 25
January 2016 by the Government of Castilla-La Mancha and published on 15
February 2016 in the official gazette of Castilla-La Mancha, No. 30, p.
3,477 (text).
The flag is described as follows:
Flag: Rectangular, in proportions 2:3, made of a wavy blue stripe bordered in white running from the hoist's upper angle to the fly's lower angle, in width 1/3 of the flag's width, the upper triangle, red with a yellow tower masoned in black, and the lower triangle, green with thee yellow uprooted pines.
Coat of arms: Tierced per bend, 1. Gules a tower or masoned sable port and windows azure, 2. Bendy wavy azure fimbriated argent, 3. Vert three pines eradicated or. The shield surmounted by a Royal crown closed.
Ivan Sache, 12 July 2019
