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Calamonte (Municipality, Extremadura, Spain)

Flag of Calamonte - Image from the municipal website, 14 March 2020

Presentation of Calamonte
Flag of Calamonte

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Presentation of Calamonte

The municipality of Calamonte (6,162 inhabitants in 2019; 780 ha; municipal website) is located 60 km east of Badajoz and 5 km south-west of Mérida.

Calamonte is of probable Roman origin. Some say that the town was established at the junction of the Olisiponia (Lisbon) - Emerita (Mérida) and Hispalia (Seville) - Emerita roads. A more accepted origin is a Roman villa. The hamlets of Calamonte, El Carrascalejo and Esparragalejo, were established by a charter issued in 28 April 1365 by Vasco Rodríguez de Cornago, Master of the Order of Saint John.
Bernabé Moreno de Vargas (Historia de la Ciudad de Mérida) claims that Caalmonte was established on the site of the Moorish castle of Cala and the mountain (monte); another explanation provided by the scholar refers to the Latin toponym Collomontis (The Mount's Pass).

Ivan Sache, 14 March 2020

Flag of Calamonte

The flag (photo, photo, photo) and arms of Calamonte, adopted on 12 September 1988 and 13 July 1990 by the Municipal Council and validated on 5 December 1989 by the Royal Academy of History, are prescribed by an Order issued on 5 December 1990 by the Government of Extremadura and published on 18 December 1990 in the official gazette of Extremadura, No. 98, pp. 1,986-1,987 (text).
The symbols are described as follows:

Flag: Quadrangular. Green, charged in the center with the municipal coat of arms in full colors.
Coat of arms: Per fess, 1. Argent a cross of the Order of Saint James gules, 2. Argent three wildboars passant sable in fess. The shield surmounted by a Royal crown closed.

The memoir supporting the proposed symbols (text) was submitted on 4 July 1988 by Alfonso de Ceballos-Escalera y Gila, Marquess of La Floresta.
The Cross of Saint James recalls the town's former rulers, while the wildboars allude to Alfonso XI's Libro de la Montería, which mentions Calamonte as "rich in wildboars and pigs".

Ivan Sache, 14 March 2020