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Alameda (Municipality, Andalusia, Spain)

Flag of Alameda - Image from the Símbolos de Málaga website, 11 September 2016

Presentation of Alameda
Symbols of Alameda

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Presentation of Alameda

The municipality of Alameda (5,403 inhabitants in 2015; 6,510 ha; municipal website), located 75 km north of Málaga, on the border with the Provinces of Seville and Córdoba, is the northernmost municipality in the Province of Málaga.

Alameda has been identified with the Roman town of Astigis Vetus, mentioned by Pliny the Elder. This town might have succeeded Astapa, a town of Iberian-Phoenician settlement. In 208 BC, the town was seized and burned down by Lucius Martius, as a retaliation for its loyalty to Carthage. The Roman thermae of Alameda, used from the 1st century BC to the 4th century, were inscribed on the General Register of the Andalusian Historical Heritage, as an Archeological Zone, by Decree No. 87, adopted on 14 April 2009 by the Government of Andalusia and published on 27 April 2009 in the official gazette of Andalusia, No. 79, pp. 32-34 (text).

Once part of the Marquisate of Estepa, Alameda was made in 1848 an independent municipality, which was incorporated to the Province of Seville. The tradition recalls a local illuminati sect that sacrificed one of his members known as Parrito; persecuted, the sect vanished and remained known only in orally transmitted poems. In 1833, José María Hinojosa Corbacho "El Tempranillo" (1805-1833, the most famous Andalusian rascal in the 19th century) was killed in Alameda in a skirmish with former members of his band, and buried in the town's cemetery.

Ivan Sache, 11 September 2016

Symbols of Alameda

The flag of Alameda (photo), adopted on 31 November 1984 by the Municipal Council and validated on 15 March 1986 by the Royal Academy of History, is prescribed by Decree No. 344, adopted on 9 October 1990 by the Government of Andalusia and published on 10 December 1990 in the official gazette of Andalusia, No. 102, p. 9,092 (text). This was confirmed by a Resolution adopted on 30 November 2004 by the Directorate General of the Local Administration and published on 20 December 2004 in the official gazette of Andalusia, No. 246, pp. 28,986-29,002 (text).
The flag is described as follows:

Flag: In shape and proportions matching those currently used in the Andalusian Autonomous Community, plain white, charged in the center with the municipal coat of arms.

The coat of arms of Alameda, adopted on 31 November 1984 by the Municipal Council and modified on 27 March 1990, as suggested on 15 March 1986 by the Royal Academy of History, is prescribed by Decree No. 343, adopted on 9 October 1990 by the Government of Andalusia and published on 10 December 1990 in the official gazette of Andalusia, No. 102, p. 9,092 (text). This was confirmed by a Resolution adopted on 30 November 2004 by the Directorate General of the Local Administration and published on 20 December 2004 in the official gazette of Andalusia, No. 246, pp. 28,986-29,002 (text).
The coat of arms is described as follows:

Coat of arms: Horizontally divided into two equal parts. In the upper part three poplars in fess on a field or, in the lower part a fountain argent on a field azure. The shield surmounted by a Royal crown closed.

The poplars (álamos) make the arms canting. The lower part of the arms features the emblematic, central monument of the town, Fuente de la Placeta (17th-18th century; photo).
[Símbolos de las Entidades Locales de Andalucía. Málaga]

Ivan Sache, 11 September 2001