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Flag of Marmolejo - Image from the Símbolos de Jaén website, 2 September 2018
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The municipality of Marmolejo (7,252 inhabitants in 2013; 17,800 ha; municipal website) is located 60 km north-west of Jaén, on the border with the Province of Córdoba.
Marmolejo depended on Andújar until granted the status of villa on 27 May 1791 by Charles IV; at the time, the town counted 1,475 inhabitants living in 276 houses "of acceptable construction, with regular streets, paved and clean, as are the houses". Marmolejo was already famous for the healing properties of its water, described in 1781 by a French medical doctor, Tissot. In 1875, another French, Paul Rostaing, founded the first hotel in Marmolejo; the town developed as a spa resort in the first decades of the 20th century.
Ivan Sache, 3 December 2015
The flag and arms of Marmolejo, adopted on 23 March 2018 by the
Municipal Council and submitted on 10 April 2018 to the Directorate
General of the Local Administration, are prescribed by a Resolution
adopted on 19 April 2018 by the Directorate General of the Local
Administration and published on 24 April 2018 in the Andalusian official
gazette, No. 78, pp. 160-161 (text).
The symbols are described as follows:
Flag: Rectangular, in proportions three units in length on two units in width (2/3), that is, one and a half longer than wide, the panel white except the fifth at hoist, olive green. Charged with the coat of arms of Marmolejo whose geometric axis matches the flag's center, in height 2.3 of the flag's hoist.
Coat of arms: Quarterly, 1. Argent four blocks of marble proper 2. Vert a key or in pale, 3. Azure a single-arched fortified bridge or masoned sable over waves azure and argent, 4. Gules a tower or port and windows and masoned sable. The shield in Spanish-French shape over a cartouche or.
The "rehabilitated" flag and arms and the anthem were unveiled on 27 May
2018, the anniversary of separation from Andújar. The ceremony, held in Teatro Español, was attended by Ana Cobo, representing the Government of Andalusia. The anthem was performed by the Jaén Symphonic Orchestra.
[Campiña Digital, 28 May 2018]
The flag and arms were originally approved on 5 October 2017 by the
Municipal Council. The memoir supporting the "rehabilitation" of the
symbols was redacted by Andrés Nicás, member of the College of Heraldry
of Spain and the Indies.
[SER Andújar, 9 October 2017]
The flag of Marmolejo was originally approved in 1995 by the Municipal
Council after a public call for proposals.
White is a symbol of peace and purity shared by the inhabitants of the
town. White is also the specific color to the southern villages, where a
great proportion of the traditional buildings have their walls
white-washed. White further represents the transparency and value of its
mineral sources and watercourses, whose healing properties, of
international fame, have been recognized since the Roman times. Water is
also the base of the population's income, mostly agriculture. The spa
located on the bank of Guadalquivir was used as the lord's emblem since
the 18th c century.
Green is a symbol of the base of economy, traditionally, agriculture. It
also recalls the aspiration to a better future as an old virtue of the
community. The shade is defined as olive green as a tribute of the
historical significance of this tree for the province.
The coat of arms was originally designed in 1941 by Juan de Dios López,
when commissioned by the Provincial Government of Jaén to design a coat
of arms for all the municipalities of the province.
The blocks of marble (mármol) recall the spurious etymology of
Marmolejo. In the 17th century, Antonio Terrones Robles, considered as
Andújar's first historian, claimed that "Marmolejo, a hamlet of Andújar,
was once known as Marmol, for the marble blocks used by the Romans to
signal the road linking Illiturgi to Cordua". The road was identified as
a branch of Via Augusta; although Terrones' explanation makes little
sense, the marble blocks were kept to make the arms canting.
The key, a charge commonly used in the municipal heraldry of the
Province of Jaén, represents the watch zone once located on the border
with the Muslim states.
The bridge represents the local "Roman" bridge over Guadalquivir, which
was indeed erected in the 16th century by Benito del Castillo.
The castle, also recalling the border zone, represents the three castles
mentioned by the Jaén-born writer and historian Juan Eslava Galán (b.
1948): San Lorenzo, of Roman origin, revamped by the Arabs; San Julián,
shown on drawings by Mart&iaucute;n Jimena Jurado (1615-1664, Antigüedades del
reino de Jaén, 1639); and Aragón or Brittany, the only one still standing.
The shield is traditionally placed over a parchment, alluding to the
Royal Letters signed in 1791 by King Carlos IV (r. 1788-1808) that
established the villa of Marmolejo.
[Municipal website]
Ivan Sache, 2 September 2018
