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Municipality of Muelas de los Caballeros (Zamora Province, Castile and Leon, Spain)

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image by Alfonso Muñoz, 21 Dec 2010

Introduction
Description

See also:

Zamora Province (Castile and Leon, Spain)
Castile and Leon (Castilla y León, Spain)
Spain

Introduction

The municipality of Muelas de los Caballeros (221 inhabitants in 2009; 7,158 ha) is located in the north of the Zamora Province, 130 km from the provincial capital.

Ivan Sache, 20 Dec 2010

Description

The flag and arms of Muelas de los Caballeros are prescribed by a Decree adopted on 23 September 2004 by the Municipal Council, signed by the Mayor on 7 October 2004 and published on 21 October 2004 in the official gazette of Castile and Leon, No. 204, p. 15,250. The symbols are described as follows:

Municipal flag: Rectangular, with proportions 2:3, made of a blue triangle with its vertices in lower hoist and midpoint of the flag's upper edge, a red triangle with its vertices in lower hoist and in the midpoint of the fly, and the rest of the flag white with a green tree.

Coat of arms: Quarterly, 1. Azure a lion rampant or langued and crowned of the same, 2. Argent a cauldron sable in dexter handle an arm armed with a sword sable hilted gules in sinister handle a pennon gules sinister a cypress vert surrounded by two Moor's heads affronty proper tortiled sable, 3. Gules two lizards vert contrepassant all over a flagstone argent, 4. Vert an ewe argent ensigned with a castle argent port and windows sable with an ewe argent on the towers sinister and central. The shield surmounted with a Royal crown closed.

Source: http://bocyl.jcyl.es/boletines/2004/10/21/pdf/BOCYL-D-21102004-31.pdf

Ivan Sache, 20 Dec 2010

The coat of arms is shown on the Pueblos España website.

Ivan Sache, 20 Dec 2010