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Santa Colomba de Curueño (Municipality, Castilla y León, Spain)

Last modified: 2015-01-17 by ivan sache
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Flag of Santa Colomba de Curueño - Image by Antonio Gutiérrez (VexiLeón website), 24 February 2014


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Presentation of Santa Colomba de Curueño

The municipality of Santa Colomba de Curueño (555 inhabitants in 2012; 9,195 ha; municipal website) is located in the northeast of León Province, 30 km from León. The municipality is made of the two villages of Santa Colomba de Curueño (89 inh.), Ambasaguas de Curueño (77 inh.), Barrillos de Curueño (122 inh.), Barrio de Nuestra Señora (105 inh.), Devesa de Curueño (64 inh.), Gallegos de Curueño (44 inh.), La Mata de Curueño (52 inh.) and Pardesivil (25 inh.).

Santa Colomba de Curueño and its villages formed in the Middle Ages the Curueño Council, which depended on the Guzmán family, Counts of Toral.
Ambasaguas was mentioned for the first time in 959 as "inter ambas aguas" (between the two rivers, here Porma and Curueño). The current name of the village was fixed in 1566.
La Mata was mentioned for the first time on a document dated 11 November 1051.

Ivan Sache, 24 February 2014


Symbols of Santa Colomba de Curueño

The flag of Santa Colomba de Curueño is prescribed by a Decree adopted on 8 October 2013 by the Municipal Council, signed on 9 October 2013 by the Mayor, and published on 24 October 2013 in the official gazette of Castilla y León, No. 206, pp. 69,111-69,112 (text). The flag, supported by a memoir written by Ángel Fierro del Valle, was initially approved on 27 June 2013 by the Municipal Council and validated by the Chronicler of Arms of Castilla y León.
The flag is described as follows:

Flag: The flag shall be rectangular in shape, in proportions 2:3, made of three horizontal stripes, the lateral green and the central blue. The first and third stripes; of green colour, represent the vegetation of the Curueño valley, while the second stripe, of blue colour, represents the water and azure of river Curueño.
Placement and proportions of the stripes:
    - Upper stripe: Green, 30% of the flag's hoist;
    - Central stripe: Blue, 40% of the flag's hoist;
    - Lower stripe: Green, 30% of the flag's hoist.
In the middle of the flag is placed the municipal coat of arms in full colours.

The coat of arms of Santa Colomba de Curueño is prescribed by a Decree adopted on 22 December 1993 by the Government of the Province of León and published on 25 January 1994 in the official gazette of Castilla y León, No. 16 (text).
The coat of arms is described as follows:

Coat of arms: Per fess, 1. Azure a fess wavy argent, 2. Argent eight roundels azure 4, 3 and 1. The shield surmounted by a Royal crown closed.

The wavy stripe represents river Curueño, while the eight roundels represent the eight villages forming the municipality (municipal website).

Ivan Sache, 24 February 2014


 
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