Last modified: 2015-01-17 by ivan sache
Keywords: piña de esgueva | valladolid |
Links: FOTW homepage |
search |
disclaimer and copyright |
write us |
mirrors
See also:
The municipality of Piña de Esgueva (352 inhabitants in 2010; 2,982 ha; municipal website) is located in the east of Valladolid Province, on the border with Palencia Province, 30 km from Valladolid.
Piña de Esgueva already existed in the Visigothic times; a necropolis
dated from the 7th century was found in 1932 in Las Pequeras, a place
located 3 km south-east of the today's village. The artefacts
(ceramics, jewels...) excavated in 1933-1934 from 167 tombs are shown
in the Valladolid Archeology Museum.
The village must have been resettled at the end of the 9th century
after the reconquest of the area by King Alfonso III the Great. The
name of the village (from Latin, pinna, "a castle", "a tower", "a
fortification") seems to indicate that a fortress was built there as
part of the defence line set up along river Duero, then the border
with the Muslim states. At the same time, the village of Mazariegos de
Valdesgueva, deserted in the 17th century, was also resettled; the
name of the village, referring to the Arab word for a mill, indicates
that Mazariegos might have been resettled by Mozarabic millers. In the
13th century, Piña de Esgueva was known as Pinna de Valle Asgueua,
subsequently (1345) changed to Pinna del Valdesgueva.
Ivan Sache, 1 May 2011
The flag and arms of Piña de Esgueva (municipal website), approved on 21 February 1995 by
the Municipal Council, are prescribed by a Decree adopted on 26 July
1996 by the Valladolid Provincial Government, signed on 8 August 1996
by the President of the Government, and published on 22 August 1996 in
the official gazette of Castilla y León, No. 162 (text).
The symbols are described
as follows:
Flag: Rectangular flag, with proportions 1:2, horizontally divided white and sky blue. In the middle of the flag is placed the municipal coat of arms in full colors.
Coat of arms: Per pale, 1. Vert a castle or masoned sable port and windows of the same on waves argent, 2. Gules a Cross of St. John argent, a bordure or. The shield surmounted with a Royal Spanish crown.
The bordure of the shield, of 2 cm in width, recalls the grain fields,
symbolizing the main source of income of the municipality.
The Royal Academy of History rejected the bordure of the shield as
totally irrelevant in Castilian heraldry. The waves should be
represented as usual, covering the lower third of the panel. Finally,
the use of the Cross of the Order of St. John in the field of the
second quarter is inadequate; recalling that the village belonged to
this Order would require a "chief of the Order". Accordingly, the
amended arms would be: "Vert a castle or on waves a chief gules a
cross argent. The shield surmounted with a Royal Spanish crown."
The proposed flag with the amended coat of arms is totally acceptable
(Boletín de la Real Academia de la Historia, 1997, 194, 2: 386).
Ivan Sache, 1 May 2011
