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Albaladejo del Cuende (Municipality, Castilla-La Mancha, Spain)

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Presentation of Albaladejo del Cuende

The municipality of Albaladejo del Cuende (276 inhabitants in 2016; 5,520 ha) is located 40 km south of Cuenca.

Ivan Sache, 10 June 2019


Symbols of Albaladejo del Cuende

The flag of Albaladejo del Cuende is prescribed by an Order issued on 14 February 2006 by the Government of Castilla-La Mancha and published on 1 March 2006 in the official gazette of Castilla-La Mancha, No. 46, p. 4,892 (text).
The flag is described as follows:

Flag: Rectangular panel, in proportions 2:3, horizontally divided in the middle. A yellow triangle placed along the hoist, the upper half, white, and the lower half, red. The white, upper half charged in the center with the municipal coat of arms.

The coat of arms of Albaladejo del Cuende is prescribed by an Order issued on 14 February 2006 by the Government of Castilla-La Mancha and published on 1 March 2006 in the official gazette of Castilla-La Mancha, No. 46, pp. 4,892-4,893 (text).
The coat of arms is described as follows:

Coat of arms: Spanish shield. Gules a bridge argent over waves azure and argent ensigned dexter by a watermill argent and sinister by a chapel of the same the whole surmounted by a Count's coronet. The shield surmounted by a Royal Spanish crown.

The Royal Academy of History rejected the proposed coat of arms. The architectonic representation is excessively complex. Showing a watermill atop a bridge, that is far from water, is incoherent. It is even less acceptable to recall the Counts of Valverde, alluded to in the toponym, by the modern representation of a Count's coronet placed inside the shield. If necessary, a charge from the counts' arms should be used instead. The Academy rejected the proposed flag, which includes the rejected coat of arms, and required the submission of a new proposal of flag and arms.
[Boletín de la Real Academia de la Historia 202:2, 313. 2005]

Ivan Sache, 10 June 2019