Buciegas (Municipality, Castilla-La Mancha, Spain)

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Flag of Buciegas - Image by Ivan Sache, 14 June 2019

• Presentation of Buciegas
• Symbols of Buciegas

See also:

• Spain
• Castilla-La Mancha (Autonomous Community, Spain)
• Province of Cuenca (Castilla-La Mancha, Spain)

Presentation of Buciegas

The municipality of Buciegas (40 inhabitants in 2018; 901 ha) is located 50 km north-west of Cuenca.

Ivan Sache, 14 June 2019

Symbols of Buciegas

The flag and arms of Buciegas are prescribed by Order No. 12, issued on 17 January 2018 by the Government of Castilla-La Mancha and published on 5 February 2018 in the official gazette of Castilla-La Mancha, No. 25, p. 3,150 (text).
The symbols are described as follows:

Flag: Three horizontal stripes of equal width, the upper, purpure, the median, argent, and the lower, vert.
Coat of arms: [Per pale,] 1a. Vert three fleurs-de-lis or, 1b. Argent a stylized owl, 2. Purpure a holly oak vert. The shield surmounted by a Spanish Royal crown.

The symbols were designed with the help of the historian and archeologist Miguel Angel Valero.
The fleurs-de-lis recall the first settlers of the area after the Christian reconquest, who came from the French province of Gascony.
The holly oak is the most common tree on the municipal territory. The owl (búho) recalls the tradition of the Casas del Bu (The Owl's Huts), allegedly the first settlement established by shepherds; owls being nearly blind (ciegas) during the day, the popular etymology relates the name of Buciegas to búho a ciegas. Most probably, the name of the village comes from Boceguillas, a village in the Province of Segovia where the early colonists came from.
[Antonio Checa Sainz. Historia de Buciegas. Un pueblo español. 2017]

Ivan Sache, 14 June 2019