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Municipality of Nueva Villa de las Torres (Valladolid Province, Castile and Leon, Spain)

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image by Ivan Sache, 12 Dec 2010, and Wikimedia User:Rastrojo, 09 Feb 2008

Introduction
Description

See also:

Municipal Flags (Spain)
Valladolid Province (Castile and Leon / Castilla y León, Spain)
Castile and Leon (Castilla y León, Spain)

Introduction

The municipality of Nueva Villa de las Torres (347 inhabitants in 2009; 3,565 ha) is located in the south of Valladolid Province, 50 km of the provincial capital. Nueva Villa de las Torres was mentioned in 1265 as Tuerrebarbas, a parish depending on the abbey of Medina del Campo. In 1528, Villanueva de las Torres had 170 inhabitants.

Ivan Sache, 12 Dec 2010

Description

The flag and arms of Nueva Villa de las Torres are prescribed by a Decree adopted on 29 January 2005 by the Municipal Council, signed by the Mayor on 20 July 2005 and published on 2 August 2005 in the official gazette of Castile and Leon, No. 148, p. 13,793. The symbols are described as follows:

Rectangular flag, with proportions 2:3, made of five vertical stripes in proportions 1/6, 1/6, 1/3, 1/6 and 1/6, the intermediate white and the three other red, in the central stripe a white house masoned with door and windows red.

Coat of arms: Per fess, 1. Gules a town argent masoned sable port and windows azure made of two houses a tower and a church per fess, 2. Vert a bunch of grapes or. The shield surmounted by a Royal crown closed.

Source: http://bocyl.jcyl.es/boletines/2005/08/02/pdf/BOCYL-D-02082005-26.pdf

Ivan Sache, 12 Dec 2010