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Flag of Torres de la Alameda - Image by Ivan Sache, 29 July 2015
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The municipality of Torres de la Alameda (7,937 inhabitants in 2014; 4,380 ha; municipal website) is located in the south-east of the Community of Madrid, 30 km of Madrid.
Torres de la Alameda proudly owns a copy of the Shroud of Turin, offered to the town in 1620, most probably by a Discalced monk of Cuenca. Only two copies of the Shroud are kept in Spain, the second one, owned by the monastery of Santo Domingo de Silos, being slightly more recent (1627/1640). A perfect copy of the original, the Shroud of Torres is the only one in the world whose sanctity was certified by contact with the original, performed on 3 May 1620. The Diocese of Alcalá de Henares and the Directorate General of Architecture of the Community of Madrid have signed an agreement to restore the Soledad chapel, so that the Shroud can be permanently exhibited in Torres de Alameda.
Ivan Sache, 29 July 2015
The flag and arms of Torres de la Alameda are prescribed by a Decree adopted on 21 September 1995 by the Government of the Community of Madrid and published on 16 October 1995 in the official gazette of the Community of Madrid, No. 246, pp. 89 (text) and on 8 November 1995 in the Spanish official gazette, No. 267, p. 32,473 (text).
The symbols are described as follows:
Flag: In proportions 2:3, yellow panel with a purple border, charged in the center with the municipal coat of arms of the town.
Coat of arms: Azure three towers [torres] or 1 and 2 in base a garb of three spikes of the same. The shield surmounted by a Royal Spanish crown.
The Royal Academy of History validated the proposed symbols "without any inconvenience". The proposed arms are based on a "wide, well-designed study" that provides evidence that the municipality used in the modern era seals featuring a tower and a garb of spikes, arranged in different manners and without fixed colours. The width of the flag's border is not specified.
[Boletín de la Real Academia de la Historia, 1987, 194:1, 193]
The flag in actual use (photos, photo, photo, photo, photo, photo) appears to be purple with the municipal coat of arms in the middle.
Ivan Sache, 29 July 2015