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Flag of Villafranca Montes de Oca - Image by Eduardo Panizo Gómez (Vexilla Hispanica website), 23 May 2011
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The municipality of Villafranca Montes de Oca (136 inhabitants in 2010; 5,245 ha; municipal website) is located 40 km of Burgos. The municipality is made of the villages of Ocón de Villafranca and Villafranca Montes de Oca (capital).
Villafranca Montes de Oca was located on a strategic place on the Way
of St. James, halfway of Santo Domingo de la Calzada and Burgos. The
old Oca Diocese was transferred in 1075 to Gamonal and, subsequently,
to Burgos.
Aymeric Picaud's Codex Calixtinus (the oldest known pilgrim's
guidebook) mentions the Villafranca hospital, where the pilgrims could
rest before climbing the dangerous Pass of the Oca Mounts ["Montes de
Oca"], then known as nemus oquae. The Codex further records a miracle that took place in 1108 in the mountains, when Apostle St.
James resurrected a child that had died during the crossing of the
mounts. Queen consort of Castile Juana Manuel founded in 1370 the
Villafranca Royal Pilgrim's Hospital and, in 1380, a second hospital,
dedicated to St. Anthony the Great.
Ivan Sache, 23 May 2011
The flag and arms of Villafranca Montes de Oca, adopted on 30 May 1989
by the Municipal Council and validated by the Royal Academy of
History, are prescribed by a Decree adopted on 14 June 1991 by the
Government of Castilla y León, and published on 24 June 1991 in the
official gazette of Castilla y León, No. 119 (text).
The symbols are described as follows:
Flag: The flag shall be a transposition of the elements of the municipal coat of arms on a rectangular, red panel. The elements shall be placed orthogonally to the horizontal display of the flag and cover the maximum height.
Coat of arms: Gules a mount [monte] stylized with three peaks or in chief a cross patty argent in base a fess wavy argent. The shape of the shield shall be Spanish, that is, rectangular with a rounded-off base. The shield surmounted with a Royal Spanish crown.
Ivan Sache, 23 May 2011
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Flag of Ocón de Villafranca - Image by Ivan Sache, 28 February 2015
The flag and arms of Ocón de Villafranca are prescribed by a Decree adopted on 5 October 2009 by the Village Council, signed the same day by the Mayor, and published on 27 October 2009 in the official gazette
of the Province of Burgos, No. 204, p. 9 ( Ivan Sache, 28 February 2015
The symbols are described as follows:
Flag: Rectangular flag, in proportions 2:3, made of eight diagonal
stripes arranged per bend, that is, descending from hoist to fly, from
bottom to top: blue, white, blue, white, blue, white, blue, and white.
Coat of arms: Per pale, 1. Or a cow gules surmounted by two garbs of
wheat vert in base three garbs of wheat of the same, 2. Bendy azure
and argent. The shield surmounted with a Royal crown closed.