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The municipality of Pozo de Urama (31 inhabitants in 2012; 1,381 ha)
is located in the southwest of Palencia Province, 50 km from Palencia.
Pozo de Urama appears to have been named for a (salt?) well (Spanish,
pozo, from Latin, puteus) owned by a Mozarab re-settler named Abd Al-Rahman. The village was mentioned for the first time in 946, as
Puteo de Abdurama, when granted to the San Félix monastery of Cisneros.
Pozo de Urama is the birth place of the painter Juan Manuel Díaz
Caneja (1905-1988).
Díaz Caneja joined in 1927 the Vallecas School, established by Alberto Sánchez and Benjamín Palencia and named for a village located near Madrid. The painter went in winter 1929 to Paris, where he discovered modern art, and, especially, cubism. Together with his friend Herrera Petere, he published in 1931 in Madrid the sole issue of the anarcho-surrealist review entitled En España ya todo est‡ preparado para que se enamoren los sacerdotes. Díaz Caneja's first public exhibition took place in 1934 in the Museum of Modern Art of Madrid. Jailed in 1948-1951 as a retaliation for his support to the Spanish Republic, the artist did not stop painting. In 1956, he represented Spain at the Venice Biennale. In the next decades, Díaz Caneja was invited to show his paintings by several museums and galleries, in Spain and
worldwide. He was awarded in 1981 the title of "Preferred Child of the
Province of Palencia", while an exhibition was organized in the
cloister of the Palencia cathedral. Short before his death, paintings
by him were included in the "Picasso's Century" exhibition organized
by the Museum of Modern Art of the Town of Paris. The Díaz Caneja Foundation was established in Palencia in 1996.
Ivan Sache, 20 February 2014
The flag and arms of Pozo de Urama are prescribed by a Decree adopted
on 1 February 2012 by the Municipal Council, signed on 8 February 2012
by the Mayor, and published on 21 February 2012 in the official
gazette of
Castilla y León, No. 36, p. 13,490 (text).
The symbols are described as follows:
Flag: Rectangular flag, with proportions 2:3, made of three equal horizontal stripes, the upper red, the median blue and the lower yellow. In the middle of the flag is placed the municipal coat of arms in full colours.
Coat of arms: Per pale, 1. Gules a castle or ports and windows azure ensigned by a scallop or, 2a. Azure a well [pozo] argent, 2b. Or three spikes vert. Grafted in base, azure a fleur-de-lis argent. The shield surmounted by a Royal crown closed.
Ivan Sache, 20 February 2014
