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The municipality of Puente del Congosto (273 inhabitants in 2009; 3,404 ha; unofficial website) is located in the southeast of Salamanca Province, 70 km from Salamanca.
Puente del Congosto is built on the west bank of river Tormes, crossed by a
bridge (puente) watched by the castle dominating the village. The
Congosto Towers mentioned in 1212 were probably early
fortifications. The bridge as seen today was built upon order of the
Catholic Monarchs, as stated in a document dated 1500; the castle must
date back to the same period.
The area is dominated by the Cerro del Berrueco mountain (1,354 m), on
which six archaeologic sites from the 1st millennium BC have been
excavated since the 1920s.
Ivan Sache, 7 January 2011
The flag (photo) and arms of Puente del Congosto are prescribed by a Decree
adopted on 30 April 2003 by the Municipal Council, signed on 5 May 2003 by the Mayor, and published on 2 June 2003 in the official gazette of
Castilla y León, No. 103, p. 8,088 (text).
The symbols are described
as follows:
Flag: Quadrangular panel, with proportions 1:1, divided into three equal vertical stripes, the central stripe red with the municipal coat of arms in the middle and the other stripes checky of 15 pieces, eight white and seven blue.
Coat of arms: Per pale, 1. Gules a bridge [puente] or over waves argent and azure ensigned with a castle or port and windows azure, 2. Checky of 15 pieces, eight argent and seven azure [Crown not mentioned].
The symbols are presented by Mayor Soledad Arana in El Adelanto de
Salamanca, 8 January 2004. On 17 February 2003, the Municipal Council
commissioned Instituto de Heráldica Municipal Borbone to draft the
symbols (proposals). The arms represent the local landscape (bridge, castle and
river Tormes). The checky field is made of the arms of the Dukes of
Alba, once lords of Puente del Congosto.
On 6 April 2004, El Adelanto de Salamanca presented the flag in the
cloth. Five copies were ordered for outdoors hoisting, another one was
to be ordered, to be placed in the Honour Room of the Town Hall. On 18 August 2004, El Adelanto de Salamanca announced that the
symbols were to be officially unveiled on 22 August 2004 during the
village festival.
Ivan Sache, 7 January 2011
