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Carcedo de Burgos (Municipality, Castile and León, Spain)

Flag of Carcedo de Burgos - Image by Ivan Sache, 14 February 2011

Presentation of Carcedo de Burgos
Symbols of Carcedo de Burgos

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Presentation of Carcedo de Burgos

The municipality of Carcedo de Burgos (329 inhabitants in 2009; 2,568 ha; municipal website) is located 10 km of Burgos. The municipality is made of the villages of Carcedo de Burgos (capital) and Modúbar de la Cuesta (45 inh.).

Carcedo de Burgos was founded in the late 9th century - early 10th century in a place rich in holly oaks (from Latin quercus, "an oak"). The building of the town and citadel of Burgos allowed the safe resettlement of the neighborhood, here the left bank of river Arlanza. Carcedo was also under the influence of the neighboring San Pedro de Cardeña monastery, a stronghold of the Castilian medieval faith. Rights on the holly oaks,the village's main resource, were a matter of several disputes between the abbey and the villagers.
Modúbar de la Cuesta, one of the four Modúbar (Modúbar de la Cuesta, Modúbar de la Emparedada, Modúbar de Zafalanes and Modúbar de San Cibrián), was mentioned for the first time in 972.

Ivan Sache, 14 February 2011

Symbols of Carcedo de Burgos

The flag of Carcedo de Burgos, adopted on 19 October 2000 by the Municipal Council, is prescribed by a Decree adopted on 8 February 2001 by the Burgos Provincial Government, signed on 15 February 2001 by the President of the Government, and published on 28 February 2001 in the official gazette of Castile and León, No. 42, pp. 3,355-3,356 (text).
The flag is described as follows:

Flag: Quadrangular flag, with proportions 1:1. Four-colored. The field yellow charged with three gyrons from the hoist to the opposite side, the upper gyron red, the middle gyron black and the lower gyron green. Separated by 1/10 [of the flag's hoist] and 2/10 in the base. In the middle is located the municipal coat of arms.

The coat of arms of Carcedo de Burgos is prescribed by a Decree adopted on 16 November 1995 by the Burgos Provincial Government, signed on 9 January 1996 by the President of the Government, and published on 19 January 1996 in the official gazette of Castile and León, No. 14 (text).
The coat of arms is described as follows:

Coat of arms: Per pale, 1. Gules a castle or masoned sable port and windows azure, 2. Argent a holly oak eradicated proper, grafted in base or a wool ewe's head proper. The shield surmounted with a Royal Spanish crown.

The Royal Academy of History did not accept the use of the arms of Castile just because the place once belonged to the Kingdom of Castile, as hundreds of other places did. The oak is canting for the place name (Boletín de la Real Academia de la Historia, 1997, 194, 2: 397).

Ivan Sache, 29 April 2011