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The municipality of Olombrada (723 inhabitants in 2009; 6,651 ha; municipal website) is located in the north of Segovia Province, on the border with Valladolid Province, 70 km from Segovia.
Olombrada, according to Justo Hernán-Sanz, was the Roman village of
Forum Bracchia, lit. "The Arms' Market", where the inhabitants of
Colenda (modern Cuéllar?) were sold as slaves after the seizure of the
town by the Roman Consul Titus Didius. Other scholars believe that
Olombrada is of Visigoth etymology, via forambre, "a cave". Yet
other possible origins are linked to the Muslim conquest of the area,
via alambrada or even Dame Lambra (Doña Lambra), a main
protagonist of the Seven Infants of Lara chanson de geste.
Olombrada was mentioned for the first time on a charter signed by King
Alfonso VIII on 23 March 1184, as Forumtado, a village depending on
Perosillo. The next mention of the village, as Foranbrada, dates back
to 1247. Later on, the village was part of the Community of the Town
and Land of Cuéllar, founded in the 12th century and ruled by the
Dukes of Albuquerque since 1464.
Ivan Sache, 17 January 2011
The flag and arms of Olombrada are prescribed by a Decree adopted on
27 December 2002 by the Municipal Council, signed on 7
January 2003 by the Mayor, and published on 20 January 2003 in the official gazette
of Castile and León, No. 12, p. 1,130 (text).
The symbols are described
as follows:
Flag: Rectangular flag with proportions 2:3, made of two horizontal stripes with proportions 2:3 and 1:3, the upper stripe white with three green eradicated elms [olmos] per fess and the lower stripe red.
Coat of arms: Tierced per bend, 1. Argent a cave sable, 2. Gules an ewe argent a branch of madder of the same per bend, 3. Argent an elm eradicated vert. The shield surmounted with a Royal crown closed.
The symbols were designed from scratch, since no historical evidence of seal or arms use in Olombrada was found, by Vicente Tocino Letrado.
Ivan Sache, 17 January 2011