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Villanueva de la Jara (Municipality, Castilla-La Mancha, Spain)

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Flag of Villanueva de la Jara - Image by Ivan Sache, 24 July 2019


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Presentation of Villanueva de la Jara

The municipality of Villanueva de la Jara (2,304 inhabitants in 2018; 15,600 ha) is located 90 km south of Cuenca and 60 km north of Albacete. The municipality is composed of the town of Villanueva de la Jara and of the villages of Casas de Santa Cruz (109 inh.) and Ribera de San Benito (2 inh.).

Ivan Sache, 24 July 2019


Symbols of Villanueva de la Jara

The flag of Villanueva de la Jara is prescribed by an Order issued on 5 September 2001 by the Government of Castilla-La Mancha and published on 25 September 2001 in the official gazette of Castilla-La Mancha, No. 103, pp. 11,197 (text).
The flag is described as follows:

Flag: Rectangular, twice longer than wide. Composed of three horizontal stripes, red, blue, and red, the blue stripe of double width of each red stripe. Charged in the center with the municipal coat of arms.

The coat of arms of Villanueva de la Jara is prescribed by an Order issued on 5 September 2001 by the Government of Castilla-La Mancha and published on 25 September 2001 in the official gazette of Castilla-La Mancha, No. 103, pp. 11,197 (text).
The coat of arms is described as follows:

Coat of arms: Spanish shield. Per pale, 1. Azure a vase argent a branch of lilies leaved vert flowered argent, 2a. Gules a castle or port and windows azure, 2b. Argent a lion rampant purpure crowned armed and langued or. Grafted in base, argent a pomegranate proper fructed gules leave vert. The shield surmounted by a Royal crown closed.

The Royal Academy of History validated completely different symbols (Boletín de la Real Academia de la Historia 199:1, 146. 2002).

Flag: Rectangular, in proportions 2:3, horizontally divided in the middle, the upper part, green, and the lower part, yellow. Superimposed in the center with the crowned coat of arms.
Coat of arms: Per pale, 1. Argent two caldrons chequered or and gules, 2. Vert a bush of rockrose [jara] or. The shield surmounted by a Spanish Royal crown.

Ivan Sache, 24 July 2019