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Muelas del Pan (Municipality, Castilla y León, Spain)

Flag of Muelas del Pan - Image by Ivan Sache, 21 January 2013

Presentation of Muelas del Pan
Symbols of Muelas del Pan

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Presentation of Muelas del Pan

The municipality of Muelas del Pan (796 inhabitants in 2009; 7,261 ha) is located 25 km from Zamora. The municipality is made of the villages of Muelas del Pan (498 inh.; capital), Cerezal de Aliste (121 inh.), Ricobayo de Alba (157 inh.) and Villaflor (20 inh.).

Ivan Sache, 21 January 2013

Symbols of Muelas del Pan

The flag and arms (La Opinión de Zamora, 21 July 2008) of Muelas del Pan, designed by Vicente Tocino Letrado and Tomás Rodríguez Peñas, are prescribed by a Decree adopted on 6 March 2007 by the Municipal Council, signed on 12 March 2007 by the Mayor, and published on 22 March 2007 in the official gazette of Castilla y León, No. 58, p. 6,454 (text).
The symbols are described as follows:

Flag: Rectangular flag with proportions 2:3, made of five horizontal stripes with proportions 1/3, 1/6, 1/3, 1/6 and 1/3, red, white, green, white and purple, all over the outline of the municipal territory in white.
Coat of arms: Quarterly, 1. Gules a boar argent, 2. Azure a three- arched bridge argent, 3. Azure a boat argent on waves argent and azure, 4. Argent a cork oak vert. The shield surmounted with a Royal crown closed.

The flag was amended by a Decree adopted 9 March 2012 by the Municipal Council, signed on 8 May 2012 by the Mayor, and published on 21 May 2012 in the official gazette of Castilla y León, No. 95, p. 33,465 (text).
The municipal coat of arms was substituted to the outline of the municipal territory. Otherwise, the wording of the description remained unchanged.

The wording of the Decree on the relative proportions of the horizontal stripes does not make sense. It appears that the proportions are 2:1:2:1:2 - the white stripes are twice thinner than the other ones (municipal website).

Ivan Sache, 21 January 2013