Urdiales del Páramo (Municipality, Castile and León, Spain)

Last modified: 2013-09-19 by ivan sache
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Flag of Urdiales del Páramo - Image by Antonio Gutiérrez (VexiLeón website), 23 January 2011

• Presentation of Urdiales del Páramo
• Symbols of Urdiales del Páramo

See also:

• Spain
• Castile and León (Autonomous Community, Spain)
• León Province (Castile and León, Spain)

Presentation of Urdiales del Páramo

The municipality of Urdiales del Páramo (565 inhabitants in 2009; 3,284 ha) is located in the southeast of León Province, 40 km of León. The municipality is made of the villages of Urdiales del Páramo proper (capital, 336 inh.), Mansilla del Páramo (170 inh.) and Villarrín del Páramo (59 inh.).

Ivan Sache, 23 January 2011

Symbols of Urdiales del Páramo

The flag and arms of Urdiales del Páramo are prescribed by a Decree adopted on 21 February 2002 by the Municipal Council, signed on 5 March 2002 by the Mayor, and published on 16 October 2002 in the official gazette of Castile and León, No. 201, pp. 13,513-13,514 (text).
The symbols are described as follows:

Flag: Rectangular flag with proportions 2:3, made of five horizontal stripes with proportions 1:2, 1:8, 1:8, 1:8 and 1:8, from top to bottom red, white, blue, white and blue.
Coat of arms: Per fess, 1. Gules three garbs of spikes or per fess, 2. Argent two fesses wavy azure. The shield surmounted with a Royal crown closed.

The flag is therefore a simplification of the coat of arms - spikes dropped and waves made rectilinear.

Ivan Sache, 23 January 2011