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The municipality of Morille (249 inhabitants in 2009; 2,294 ha; municipal website) is located 20 km of Salamanca.
Morille increased its population up to 1,000 in the 1950s, when mines
of tungsten (scheelite, CaWO4) and tin were exploited. The mining
activity stopped in the 1970s.
The Salamanca-based artist Domingo Sánchez Blanco and the late poet
and architect Javier Utray have founded in Morille the Art Cemetery.
Considered as a "museum-mausoleum" or a "concave museum", the Art
Cemetery is the repository for artworks that are buried there
ceremoniously. The cemetery was inaugurated on 17 December 2005 with
the burial of a Pontiac Grand Prix 1972 once owned by Utray and of the
ashes of the painter and writer Pierre Klossowski (1905-2001, Balthus'
brother). On 14 February 2009, the playwright and painter Fernando
Arrabal (b. 1932) buried in Morille an original, hand-written work of
his own; he required parts of his ashes to be buried in the Art
Cemetery.
Ivan Sache, 9 December 2010
The flag and arms (photo) of Morille are prescribed by a Decree adopted on 16
June 2005 by the Municipal Council, signed on 26 October
2005 by the Mayor, and published on 11 November 2005 in the official gazette of
Castilla y León, No. 218, p. 19,412 (text).
The symbols are described
as follows:
Flag: Quadrangular, vertically divided gules and vert, in the middle the private coat of arms of the [Municipal] Council.
Coat of arms: Per pale, 1. Right (or dexter) a mill wheel or ensigned by a cauldron sable overflowing with ore, 2. Sinister (or left), gules five lilies argent, Grafted in base azure a St. James' scallop [Crown not mentioned].
Ivan Sache, 9 December 2010
