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The municipality of Fuentesoto (178 inhabitants in 2009; 3,016 ha) is located in the north of the Segovia Province, on the borders with the Burgos and Valladolid Provinces, 75 km from the provincial capital. The municipality is made of the villages of Fuentesoto proper and Tejares.
Fuentesoto means "the thicket's ('soto') fountain ('fuente')." On old maps, the village sometimes appears as Soto. The early village might have developed uphill, around the St. Gregory hermitage (8th-12th centuries), and might have moved down to the plains around the 18th century. Tejares, already mentioned in 1247, was probably named after an old tilery ("tejar").
Source: Municipal website
Ivan Sache, 11 Dec 2010
The flag and arms of Fuentesoto are prescribed by a Decree adopted on 20 June 2005 by the Municipal Council, signed by the Mayor on 12 August 2005 and published on 22 August 2005 in the official gazette of Castile and Leon, No. 161, p. 14,622. The symbols are described as follows:
Municipal flag: Square flag with proportions 1:1, gyronned of eight pieces, four white and four red, in the middle the municipal coat of arms in full colors.Coat of arms: Per pale, 1. Or three trees proper terraced vert ensigned with two stars gules in the chief's cantons the base per fess wavy argent and azure, 2. Gules an hermitage or in base a crescent argent.
Source: http://bocyl.jcyl.es/boletines/2005/08/22/pdf/BOCYL-D-22082005-6.pdf
Ivan Sache, 11 Dec 2010