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Casillas (Municipality, Castile and León, Spain)

Flag of Casillas - Image by Ivan Sache & Eduardo Panizo Gómez (Vexilla Hispanica website), 19 April 2011

Presentation of Casillas
Symbols of Casillas

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Presentation of Casillas

The municipality of Casillas (850 inhabitants in 2010; 1,196 ha; municipal website) is located in the southeast of Ávila Province, on the border with Madrid Autonomous Community, 75 km of Ávila.

Casillas was originally known as Casiellas, casiellas being traditional straw huts used by the local shepherds for living and storing grain and hay. On 14 October 1393, King Henry III chartered the Free State of La Adrada, to which Casillas was incorporated.

Ivan Sache, 19 April 2011

Symbols of Casillas

The flag and arms of Casillas are prescribed by a Decree adopted on 14 August 1998 by the Provincial Executive and published on 2 September 1998 in the official gazette of Castile and León, No. 168 (text).
The symbols are described as follows:

Flag: Rectangular flag, with proportions 2:3, made of two equal vertical stripes, at hoist white with a red house, at fly blue.
Coat of arms: Per fess, 1. Argent a chestnut eradicated vert cantonned with two houses gules, 2. Azure a castle or port and windows gules. The shield surmounted with a Royal crown closed.

On the coat of arms, the chestnut represents the most common tree of the Sierra de Gredos range, where Casillas is located. The houses (casas), in the Castilian-Leonese colors, make the arms canting.

Ivan Sache, 19 April 2011