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Flag of San Cebrián de Campos - Image by "Valdavia" (Wikimedia Commons), 26 March 2011
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The municipality of San Cebrián de Campos (468 inhabitants in 2010; 3,250 ha; municipal website) is located 30 km from Palencia.
San Cebrián de Campos, once known as San Cebrián de las Amayuelas (Amayuelas de Abajo [Lower] and Amayuelas de Arriba [Upper]), was resettled in the 10th century by Gutier Ferná:ndez and Toda Díaz. Amayuelas de Abajo is today a village (20 inh.) belonging to the municipality, while San Juan de la Vecilla, once owned by the Order of St. John, is a deserted village.
Ivan Sache, 26 March 2011
The flag and arms of San Cebrián de Campos are prescribed by a Decree
adopted on 23 August 1999 by the Palencia Provincial Government,
signed on 1 September 1999 by the President of the Government, and
published on 16 September 1999 in the official gazette of Castile and León, No. 180, p. 9,148 (text).
The symbols are described as follows:
Flag: 2:3, made of a white saltire throughout, the upper and lower triangles red, the triangle at hoist green and the triangle at fly blue.
Coat of arms: Quarterly per saltire, 1. Gules two palms argent, 2. Argent two fesses wavy azure, 3. Gules a Cross of St. John argent, 4. Argent three spikes vert. The shield surmounted with a Royal crown closed.
Ivan Sache, 26 March 2011
