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Flag of San José del Valle - Image from the Símbolos de Cadíz website, 1 April 2014
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The municipality of San José del Valle (4,460 inhabitants in 2013; 22,387 ha; municipal website) is located 40 km east of Cádiz.
Reconquered in the beginning of the 14th century, the fortress and the neighbouring village of San José were transferred in 1333 to Jerez by Royal Order. The burghers from Jerez used it as a part of the defense system of the town and did not develop a permanent settlement based on agriculture. The actual settlement of the area started at the end of the 16th century only, peaking in 1695 with the building of a Carmelite monastery, closed in 1835. In the 18th-19th centuries, colonists were allocated pieces of land by the Jerez Council; the Rural Colony of San José del Valle was founded in 1878 by Vicente and Rafael Roméo García.
The villagers asked for municipal status in 1939, which was eventually granted in 1995, when San José del Valle seceded from Jerez and was established as the 44th municipality in the Cádiz Province.
Ivan Sache, 5 April 2010
The flag and arms of San José del Valle, adopted on 21 January 2010 by the Municipal Council and submitted on 27 March 2010 to the Directorate General of the Local Administration, are prescribed by a Decree adopted on 2 March 2010 by the Directorate General of the Local Administration and published on 18 March 2010 in the official gazette of Andalusia, No. 53, p. 46 (text).
The symbols are described as follows:
Flag: Rectangular flag in proportions 3:2 (length to hoist), white with a green diagonal stripe of width 1/10 of the flag's hoist; in the upper canton of the hoist, a green eight-pointed star, placed near the hoist and the upper edge of the flag.
Coat of arms: Shield in Spanish shape. Vert a dove argent beaked or holding in her beak a flower argent slipped or, a base azure fessy wavy argent. The shield surmounted with a Royal Spanish crown closed.
The symbols were originally adopted on 3 July 1995 by the Municipal Council (photo), as published on 23 September 1995 in the official gazette of Andalusia, No. 124, p. 9,351 (text).
The symbols are described as follows:
Flag: White flag, of rectangular shape, in approximate proportions 1:1.5, with a green stripe crossing the rectangle from the upper left corner to the lower left angle (the stripe should be in height no less than 1/10 of the rectangle's height) and, in upper right canton, a green eight-pointed star.
Coat of arms: Rectangular shield, rounded in base by a semi-circle, on the 5:6 model prescribed by universal heraldry. Vert a dove argent beaked or holding in her beak a flower argent slipped or, a base azure fessy wavy argent. The shield surmounted with a Royal Spanish crown closed [lengthy description skipped].
Ivan Sache, 5 April 2010