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Flag of San Pablo de los Montes - Image by Ivan Sache, 11 September 2019
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The municipality of San Pablo de los Montes (1,805 inhabitants in 2018; 10,100 ha; municipal website) is located on the border with the Province of Ciudad Real, 50 km south-west of Toledo.
San Pablo de los Montes was settled by the Visigoths in the 7th century. Augustinian monks erected in the 15th century a convent, today ruined, on the remains of the early settlement.
The village must have emerged in the 13th century around a tower erected to protect the residents against brigands and Muslim raids. The tower was subsequently converted into the church's bell tower.
The tradition reports that a miraculous statue of the Virgin of Grace was found in 1282 near a fountain by a shepherd called Magdaleno; he related the story in all the neighboring villages, being eventually believed by the people of Ajofrín, who erected the chapel of the Holy Fountain close to the place where the statue had appeared. The pilgrimage route established from Ajofrín probably contributed to the development of San Pablo. The modern, L-shaped chapel was built in 1930.
Ivan Sache, 11 September 2019
The flag of San Pablo de los Montes is prescribed by an Order issued on 23 March 1999 by the Government of Castilla-La Mancha and published on 8 October 1999 in the official gazette of Castilla-La Mancha, No. 74 p. 7,661 (text).
The flag is described as follows:
Flag: Rectangular, in proportions 2:3, green, with a crimson diagonal running from upper hoist.
The coat of arms of San Pablo de los Montes is prescribed by Decree No. 104 issued on 12 December 1085 by the Government of Castilla-La Mancha and published on 19 November 1985 in the official gazette of Castilla-La Mancha, No. 46 p. 1,735 (text).
The coat of arms is described as follows:
Coat of arms: Per pale, 1. Gules a St. Paul or, 2. Argent a chapel on the same on mounts vert. The shield surmounted by a Royal crown closed.
The arms were originally adopted, in a non-heraldic design, on 11 September 1981 by the Municipal Council. They are based on the toponym, which is first documented in Alfonso IX's Libro de la Montería, featuring St. Paul (San Pablo), the Toledo Mounts (los Montes), and the chapel of the Holy Fountain.
[José Luis Ruz Márquez & Ventura Leblic García. Heraldica municipal de la Provincia de Toledo. 1983]
Ivan Sache, 11 September 2019