Fuente el Fresno (Municipality, Castilla-La Mancha, Spain)

Last modified: 2019-09-16 by ivan sache
Keywords: fuente el fresno |
Links: FOTW homepage | search | disclaimer and copyright | write us | mirrors

Flag of Fuente el Fresno - Image by Ivan Sache, 31 May 2019

• Presentation of Fuente el Fresno
• Symbols of Fuente el Fresno
  • Flag proposals

See also:

• Spain
• Castilla-La Mancha (Autonomous Community, Spain)
• Province of Ciudad Real (Castilla-La Mancha, Spain)

Presentation of Fuente el Fresno

The municipality of Fuente el Fresno (3,253 inhabitants in 2018; 11,946 ha; municipal website) is located on the border with the Province of Toledo, 35 km north of Ciudad Real.

Fuente del Fresno belonged to the Commandery of Malagón, ruled by the Order of Calatrava from the castle of the same name. In 1195, the alliance of the taifas (Moorish kingdoms) and the Almohads defeated Alfonso VIII in the battle of Alarcos; they subsequently seized the castle of Malagón and defeated the Christians in the battle of Puerto de la Matanza. In 1212, Alfonso VIII and the knights of Calatrava reconquered the castle, without any mercy of compassion for its Moorish defenders, who were all executed. Fuente del Fresno was mentioned in 1245, as La Fuente (The Fountain), a small village grouped around a church.

Ares Pardo Saavedra, Marshal of Castile and lord of Paracuellos, acquired on 14 January 1548 the Commandery of Malagón, officially "The Mounts and Lands of the State of Malagón and its hamlets". The new lord restricted the inhabitant's liberties, which resulted in a court case; on 5 May 1552, the lord and Garci Gonzalez, Mayor of Malagón, signed a Concord Act.
Fuente del Fresno was granted the title of villa on 15 December 1750 by King Ferdinand VI.

Ivan Sache, 31 May 2019

Symbols of Fuente el Fresno

The flag of Fuente el Fresno is prescribed by Order No. 197, issued on 17 November 2017 by the Government of Castilla-La Mancha and published on 7 December 2017 in the official gazette of Castilla-La Mancha, No. 236, p. 31,231 (text).
The flag is described as follows:

Flag: Rectangular panel, in length one and a half time the width. Vertically divided into two equal parts, at hoist, celestial blue, at fly, green. In the center, the municipal coat of arms.

The coat of arms of Fuente el Fresno is prescribed by Decree No. 1,237, issued on 7 June 1973 by the Spanish Government and published on 16 June 1973 in the Spanish official gazette, No. 144, p. 12,287 (text).
The coat of arms is described as follows:

Coat of arms: Argent sinister an escutcheon with the arms of Spain (Quarterly Castile and Leén in base Granada) dexter an ash eradicated vert. The shield surmounted by a Spanish Royal crown.

Ivan Sache, 31 May 2019

Flag proposals

Rejected proposals - Images by Ivan Sache, 31 May 2019

The flag was unanimously adopted on 30 September 2016 after a public consultation. The blue stripe represents the water of the fountain (fuente) while the green stripe represents the ash tree (fresno)
. The flag was inaugurated on 10 August 2018.
[SER Ciudad Real, 10 August 2018; La Tribuna de Ciudad Real, 10 August 2018; El Confidencial de Ciudad Real, 10 August 2018]

The three other proposals (video) followed the same color scheme, in different arrangements:
- vertically divided blue-white-green, coat of arms in the center;
- horizontally divided blue-white-green, coat of arms in the center;
- horizontally divided blue-green, coat of arms in the center.

Ivan Sache, 31 May 2019