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Flag of Matallana de Torío - Image by Antonio Gutiérrez (VexiLeón website), 19 June 2011
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The municipality of Matallana de Torío (1,435 inhabitants in 2010; 7,345 ha; municipal website) is located in the north of León Province, 30 km of León. The municipality is made of the villages of Matallana de Torío, Naredo de Fenar, Orzonaga, Pardavé, Robledo de Fenar, Serrilla, La Valcueva-Palazuelo, Villalfeide and Robles de la Valcueva (capital).
Matallana de Torío, already settled in the Celtic (citadels) and Roman (bridges) times, was granted in 1103 by King Alfonso VI to the San
Isidoro de León collegiate monastery, a grant that was confirmed on 21 June 1181 by Ferdinand II. In 1258, Alfonso the Wise granted a charter
to the village.
The today's municipality was formed in 1865 by segregation from
Vegacervera.
Ivan Sache, 19 June 2011
The flag of Matallana de Torío (photo) is described as follows (municipal website):
Rectangular flag with proportions 2:3, made of nine horizontal stripes, five blue and four white in turn. The canton at upper hoist white with a purple lion crowned armed and langued yellow, the canton at lower hoist red with a yellow hammer and sledgehammer crossed per saltire.
The coat of arms of Matallana de Torío (municipal website) is prescribed by a Decree
adopted on 22 December 1993 by the León Provincial Government, signed on the same day by the President of the Government, and published on
25 January 1994 in the official gazette of Castile and León, No. 16 (text).
The coat of arms is described as follows:
Coat of arms: Per fess, 1a. Argent a lion purpure crowned langued and armed or, 1b. Gules a hammer or and a sledgehammer of the same, 2. Azure three mounds argent on waves argent and azure. The shield surmounted with a Royal crown.
A very similar Decree, most probably corrective, was published on 11
May 1994 in the official gazette of Castile and León, No. 90 (text). The only differences with the previous Decree are minor changes:
- signed on 21 April 1994 by the President of the Government;
- "1b. [...] per saltire"
The coat of arms was designed by Centro Nacional de Investigaciones de Heráldica y Genealogía Agar. The first quarter represents the San Isidoro de León collegiate monastery; the second quarter recalls the local coal mines; the base of the shield forms a rebus of the village's name, matallana meaning "a bare mount" and torío (iturri ortza) meaning "a cold river".
Ivan Sache, 19 June 2011