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Fresnedillas de la Oliva (Municipality, Community of Madrid, Spain)

Flag of Fresnedillas de la Oliva - Image by "Asqueladd" (Wikimedia Commons), 7 July 2015

Presentation of Fresnedillas de la Oliva
Symbols of Fresnedillas de la Oliva

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Presentation of Fresnedillas de la Oliva

The municipality of Fresnedillas de la Oliva (1,545 inhabitants in 2014; 2,829 ha; municipal website) is located in the south-west of the Community of Madrid, 60 km of Madrid.

Fresnedillas de la Oliva was the site of one of the three main stations of the Deep Space Network, established for the sake of the Apollo program. The contact with the Apollo 11 mission on 20 July 1969 (moon landing) was established from Fresnedillas. The first Moon Museum in Spain (website) was inaugurated in Fresnedillas on 9 June 2010; the first Spanish astronaut, Miguel López-Alegría, hoisted in the museum the flag he had brought to the ISS.

Ivan Sache, 7 July 2015

Symbols of Fresnedillas de la Oliva

The flag (photos) of Fresnedillas de la Oliva is prescribed by a Decree adopted on 17 January 1991 by the Government of the Community of Madrid and published on 6 March 1991 in the official gazette of the Community of Madrid, No. 55, p. 14 (text) and on 30 April 1991 in the Spanish official gazette, No. 103, p. 13,822 (text).
The flag is described as follows:

Flag: In proportions 2:3. Red, charged in the center with the municipal coat of arms. Four yellow eight-pointed stars, one in each canton.

The coat of arms of Fresnedillas de la Oliva is prescribed by a Decree adopted on 18 May 1989 by the Government of the Community of Madrid and published on 20 June 1989 in the official gazette of the Community of Madrid, No. 145, pp. 15-16 (text) and on 22 August 1989 in the Spanish official gazette, No. 200, p. 27,051 (text).
The coat of arms is described as follows:

Coat of arms: Per pale, 1. Or five ash trees proper per saltire, 2. Gules a two-storeyed aqueduct argent masoned sable on ten rocks argent. The shield surmounted by a Royal crown closed.

The ash trees (fresnos) make the arms canting. The Roman aqueduct of Segovia recalls that Fresnedillas once belonged to the Community of the Town and Land of Segovia.

Ivan Sache, 7 July 2015

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