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The municipality of Valle de Santibáñez (561 inhabitants in 2009; 10,586 ha; municipal website) is located 20 km of Burgos. The municipality is made of the villages of Avellanosa del Páramo (64 inh.), Las Celadas (34 inh.), Mansilla de Burgos (39 inh.), Miñón de Santibáñez (13 inh.), La Nuez de Abajo (32 inh.), Las Rebolledas (20 inh.), Ros (45 inh.), Santibáñez-Zarzaguda (233 inh.; capital), Los Tremellos (42 inh.) and Zumel (55 inh.).
The Santibáñez valley was resettled in the early 9th century by Count of Castile Fernán González. Mansilla, mentioned for the first time in 1011, and its castle ruled 23 villages. In the 16th century, the domain was renamed Jurisdicción de Val de Santibáñez and its capital was transferred to Santibáñez-Zarzaguda.
Ivan Sache, 26 January 2011
The flag and arms of Valle de Santibáñez, designed by Raíces Heráldica y Genealogía, are prescribed by a Decree adopted on 27 June 2002 by the Municipal Council, signed on 1 July 2002 by the Mayor, and published on 12 July 2002 in the official gazette of Castile and León, No. 134, pp. 9,367-9,368 (text).
The symbols are described as follows:
Flag: Quadrangular flag, with proportions 1:1, white with a red St. Andrew's Cross or saltire of 1/10 the flag's hoist. In the middle is placed the coat of arms of Valle de Santibáñez.
Coat of arms: Rectangular with proportions 6:5, rounded-off in base. Gules mounds argent in base two waves azure ensigned with the Castilian castle, a bordure argent charged with ten elements: three watching towers gules, one of them surrounded by two crossed brambles vert and the other on a small mound proper; a hazel tree and a walnut tree vert fructed or, and two trees (an oak and an elm) proper; a rectangular tower gules, a straw basket and the roof of a church with mountains in the background. The shield surmounted with a Royal crown closed.
The ten elements in the arms' border must represent the ten villages
forming the municipality, at least:
- the brambles (zarzas) for Santibáñez-Zarzaguda;
- the walnut tree (nuez, "a walnut fruit") for La Nuez de Abajo;
- the hazel tree (avellano) for Avellanosa del Páramo;
- the oak (rebollo) for Las Rebolledas.
Ivan Sache, 26 January 2011