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Flag of Cuerva - Image by Ivan Sache, 9 September 2019
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The municipality of Cuerva (1,335 inhabitants in 2018; 3,751 ha; municipal website) is located 30 km south of Toledo.
Cuerva has been identified to Libora / Aebura, mentioned by Ptolemy as a Carpetani town. The place name could have evolved as Libora > Lorab > Corva, the latter name being mentioned on a record dated 1155. A more popular etymology relates Cuerva to the Latin word corvus" "a raven" (Spanish, cuervo). The name could also refer to a curved village served by a tortuous road. Cuerva was re-settled by Mozarab colonists in the late 12th century. The Peñaflor castle, today ruined, was erected in the 13th century, during the reign of Alfonso X the Wise, and acquired in the 15th century by Juan Carrillo, adelantado of Cazorla; at the time, the village was renamed to Villacarrillo. The town was subsequently ran by the Lasso de la Vega lineage.
Ivan Sache, 9 September 2019
The flag of Cuerva (photo,
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photo) is prescribed by an Order issued on 3 December 1991 by the Government of Castilla-La Mancha and published on 11 December 1991 in the official gazette of Castilla-La Mancha, No. 93, p. 4,316 (text).
The flag is described as follows:
Flag: A rectangle twice longer than wide (proportions 1:2), white with a green stripe in the lower third, charged in the center with the municipal coat of arms.
The Royal Academy of History validated the proposed flag, requiring precision on the size of the green stripe.
[Boletín de la Real Academia de la Historia 184:2, 389. 1987]
The coat of arms of Cuerva is prescribed by Decree No. 27, issued on 13 March 1984 by the Government of Castilla-La Mancha and published on 20 March 1984 in the official gazette of Castilla-La Mancha, No. 12, p. 279 (text).
The coat of arms is described as follows:
Coat of arms: Argent a castle gules surrounded by a raven sable and an escutcheon with the arms of Lasso. The shield surmounted by a Royal ravenn closed.
The arms, designed by José Luis Ruz Márquez and Ventura Leblic García, were approved on 30 October 1980. The original blazon was more accurate than the one retained in the legal description:
Coat of arms: Argent a rock vert surmounted by a castle gules port and windows azure surrounded dexter by an escutcheon quarterly per saltire 2. and 4. Vert a bend gules fimbriated or, 1. a,d 3. Or the salutation AVE MARIA in letters sable, and sinister by a raven sable.
The rock (peña) and the castle allude to the Peñaflor castle, once the town's namesake. The raven (cuervo) allides to the toponym. The escutcheon recalls that the Lasso de la Vega lineage acquired the town in the 15th century from the Carrillo lineage.
[José Luis Ruz Márquez & Ventura Leblic García. Heraldica municipal de la Provincia de Toledo. 1983; Municipal website]
Ivan Sache, 9 September 2019