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Flag of Cardenete - Image by Ivan Sache, 20 June 2019
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The municipality of Cardenete (495 inhabitants in 2018; 9,751 ha; municipal website) is located 75 km south-east of Cuenca.
Cardenete is of disputed etymology. Some say that the village was named
for a temple dedicated to the Phoenician god Neton, "Caro Deo Natoni"
(Cherished God Neton), abbreviated into "Car D Net". Other believe that
the village was a stronghold (alcazar) of the Zenete Berber tribe, as
"Al-kars Zenete".
In the Roman times, Cardenete was most probably located on a secondary
road; the present-day's fountains of the village appears to be of Roman
origin. Evidence of Muslim occupation is provided by two small bridges.
After the Christian reconquest, Cardenete was incorporated to the
Marquisate of Moya.
The building of the Nuestra Señora de la Asunción church (46 m x 24 m)
was initiated by the Marquess in 1500 and mostly completed in 1554. The
tower (35 m in height) and the ornamented back gate were added in the
17th century, while the organ was set in 1767. The church was registered
an Historical-Artistic Monument of National Significance by Royal Decree
No. 4,049, signed on 22 December 1982 and published on 4 February 1983
in the Spanish official gazette.
The first Marquess of Moya, Andrés de Cabrera, also ordered the building
of the Cardenete fortress, which was performed from 1520 to 1540 on a
small hill overlooking the village. The fortress is a rectangle of 31 m
on 27 m, protected by four corner towers; the south-eastern tower is
13.70 m in diameter, while the three other towers are of 11.5 m in
diameter. Another, semi-circular tower, of 16 m in diameter, is appended
to the southern wall of the fortress. The tower's width ranges from 2.80
m to 3.40 m. The fortress might never had been completed, nor even
inhabited. In the 17th century, it was owned by the Marquess of Villena,
who had married María Teresa de Arias Pacheco y Bobadilla, Marchioness
of Moya.
Ivan Sache, 20 June 2019
The flag of Cardenete (photo) is prescribed by an Order issued on 24 October 2005 by the Government of Castilla-La Mancha and published on 10 November 2005 in the official gazette of Castilla-La Mancha, No. 226, p.
20,368 (text).
The flag is described as follows:
Flag: In proportions 1:1, diagonally divided into two equal parts, 1. Gules, 2. Gray or argent. Charged in the center with the municipal coat of arms of Cardenete.
The coat of arms of Cardenete is prescribed by an Order issued on 14
November 2001 by the Government of Castilla-La Mancha and published on
27 November 2001 in the official gazette of Castilla-La Mancha, No. 123,
p. 13,442 (text).
The coat of arms is described as follows:
Coat of arms: Per fess, 1a. Or a pine vert, 1b. Gules a caliche or surmounted by an eight-pointed star argent, 2. Argent a fortress gules. The shield surmounted by a Royal crown closed.
The Royal Academy of History rejected the proposed arms because it is
"no way opportune" to include in arms designed from scratch an emblem
used by the town of Cuenca for the 13th century [the chalice]. The
incorporation of Cardenete in the Province of Cuenca does not support
such an inclusion. The other elements of the arms could be accepted,
provided the "fortress" is represented as an usual castle and not as a
perspective, unheraldic view of fanciful walls standing on a base not
mentioned in the description. The Academy proposed a new design, as "Per
pale, 1. Or a pine vert, 2. Argent a castle gules. The shield surmounted
by a Spanish Royal crown."
[Boletín de la Real Academia de la Historia 195:3, 529. 1998]
Ivan Sache, 20 June 2019