Casar de Cáceres (Municipality, Extremadura, Spain)

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Flag of Casar de Cáceres - Image by Ivan Sache, 20 March 2020

• Presentation of Casar de Cáceres
• Flag of Casar de Cáceres

See also:

• Spain
• Extremadura (Autonomous Community, Spain)
• Province of Cáceres (Extremadura, Autonomous Community, Spain)

Presentation of Casar de Cáceres

The municipality of Casar de Cáceres (4,532 inhabitants in 2017; 15,047 ha; municipal website) is located 10 km north of Cáceres. The municipality is made of the town of Casar de Cáceres and of the village of La Perala (11 inh.).

Casar de Cáceres was in the 12th century a hamlet of Cáceres known as El Casar (The Hamlet). The most significant dependency of the town, El Casar had no proper territory, which caused conflicts between the poor farmers and the knights of Cáceres, owners of the land.
The farmers appealed on 18 February 1291 to King Sancho IV, who granted them a Royal Privilege, delimiting the village's territory and transferring land property to the farmers. This new status fostered the development of the village, which soon became the biggest village of Cáceres, with a population of 900.

Ivan Sache, 20 March 2020

Flag of Casar de Cáceres

The flag (photo, photo photo photo) and arms of Casar de Cáceres, adopted on 19 January 1994 by the Municipal Council and validated on 21 January 1994 by the Assessing Council of Honors and Distinctions of the Government of Extremadura, are prescribed by an Order issued on 16 February 1994 by the Government of Extremadura and published on 26 February 1994 in the official gazette of Extremadura, No. 23, pp. 604-605 (text).
The symbols are described as follows:

Flag: Rectangular, in proportions 2:3. Made of a red panel with a white stripe, in height 1/6 the flag's hoist, whose upper edge is placed at 1/4 of the flag's lower edge. Charged in the upper quarter at hoist with the municipal coat of arms.
Coat of arms: Per fess, 1a. Gules a castle or port and windows azure; 1b. [Argent] a lion purpure armed and langued gules, 2. [Azure] a hamlet proper standing on a base per fess argent and vert. The shield surmounted by a Royal crown closed.

Ivan Sache, 20 March 2020