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The municipality of Aldeanueva de San Bartolomé (locally known as Aldeanovita; 473 inhabitants in 2014; 3,500 ha) is located on the border with Extremadura (Province of Cáceres), 120 km south-west of Toledo.
Aldeanueva (lit., New Settlement) emerged as the hamlet of Toledillo,
probably established by Mozarabic colonists after the reconquest of the
area form the Moors. The early settlers were soon joined by shepherds
from Mohedas, who erected huts near brook Pedroso. The new settlement was documented in the early 15th century as Aldeanueva del Pedroso and
Aldeanueva de Mohedas in 1576. Aldeanovita, a name first documented in
1590, was probably coined for the sake of differentiation from several
other settlements called Aldeanueva. The today's name of the village
appeared in 1752.
[Unofficial website]
The parish church of Aldeanueva de San Bartolomé is known as the
"Sistine Chapel of the Jara District", having been totally painted by
the Georgian artist Vladimir Fedorovich Strashko. Born in 1955 in
Kutaisi. the painter graduated in 1983 at the Moscow Faculty of
Decorative Monumental Painting, under the guidance of Oleg Pavlovich
Filatchev (1937-1997), "the last Romantic artist". A renowned muralist,
Strashko contributed in 1986 to the decoration of the embassy of Soviet
Union in Washington; in the 1990s, he was involved in the restauration
of church paintings all over Russia. Following a first visit to Spain in
1992, the artist worked in Aldeanueva de San Bartolomé in 1994 and 1995;
he came back in 2000 and eventually achieved the murals in 2010. In the
meantime, he decorated the cathedrals of Baku (2003-2004) and Ufa (2004-2009) and reconstructed the mural paintings of the Trinity cathedral of the St. Daniel monastery in Moscow (2010-2011).
Strashko was invited to Aldaeanueva de San Bartolomé in July 2015 for
the inauguration of a museum showing some 30 paintings ha has offerred
to a villager and a reconstruction of his workshop.
[La Jara, surco y senda, 27 July 2015]
Ivan Sache, 8 September 2019
The flag of Aldeanueva de San Bartolomé (photo) is prescribed in an Order
adopted on 22 September 2008 by the Government of Castilla-La Mancha and
published on 3 October 2008 in the official gazette of Castilla-La
Mancha, No. 204, p. 31,305 (text).
The flag is described as follows:
Flag: Rectangular, in proportions 3:5, horizontally divided in the middle, the upper part red and the lower part blue, a white triangle placed along the hoist, the panel charged in the center with the crowned coat of arms of the municipality.
The red stripe recalls the martyr of St. Bartolomew, the village's
patron saint, and the war events in which the villagers have been
involved. The blue stripe symbolizes the water resources. The white
triangle represents sheep and cheese industry.
[Unofficial website]
The coat of arms of Aldeanueva de San Bartolomé is prescribed in Decree
No. 64, adopted on 25 June 1985 by the Government of Castilla-La Mancha
and published on 2 July 1985 in the official gazette of Castilla-La
Mancha, No. 26, pp. 1,129-1,130 (text).
The coat of arms is described as follows:
Coat of arms: Per pile inverted, 1. Or a holly oak vert, 2. Azure a wall argent. Grafted in base vert a rockrose argent. The shield surmounted with a Royal crown closed.
The holly oak is a symbol of the environment of the village. The wall
represents the Celtiberian oppidum of Castrejón, localy known as Cerca
de los Moros (The Moors' Neighborhood). The rockrose (jara) is a
symbol of the local vegetation and the namesake of the Jara district.
[Unofficial website]
Ivan Sache, 8 September 2019