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The municipality of Sotobañado y Priorato (164 inhabitants in 2010;
2,526 ha; official website) is located 70 km from Palencia.
Sotobañado y Priorato is named for a wet pasture (soto) and (y)
the St. Augustine priory (priorato), founded in 1165 by Count Diego
Martínez and ruled by the Benevivere Abbey. Once a famous local linen
cloth market, Sotobañado y Priorato was granted the title of villa
in 1803 by Charles IV.
Ivan Sache, 28 April 2011
The flag and arms of Sotobañado y Priorato are prescribed by a Decree
adopted on 22 January 1996 by the Palencia Provincial Government,
signed on 6 February 1996 by the President of the Government, and
published on 19 February 1996 in the official gazette of Castile and León, No. 35 (text).
The symbols are described as follows:
Flag: Quadrangular flag with proportions 1:1, blue with three white wavy fesses. In the middle is placed the municipal coat of arms in full colors.
Coat of arms: Per pale, 1. Or an oak proper charged with a cross argent over waves azure and argent, 2. Checky of 15 pieces eight or and seven vair argent and azure. The shield surmounted with a Royal Spanish crown.
The Royal Academy of History validated the proposed symbols on 30 June 1989 (Boletín de la Real Academia de la Historia, 1990, 187, 1: 162).
Ivan Sache, 28 April 2011