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Flag of La Mata - Image by Ivan Sache, 9 September 2019
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The municipality of La Mata (853 inhabitants in 2018; 1,920 ha; municipal website) is located 50 km west of Toledo and 20 km south-west of Torrijos. La Mata was granted the status of villa in 1651 by Philip IV, separating from Santa Olalla.
La Mata was first documented in 1205 when the village was granted to Martín, Master of the Order of Calatrava.
La Mata claims to be the birth place of Father Juan de Mariana (1536-1624), a famous humanist author of the Historia General de España; usually believed to be born in Talavera de la Reina.
Ivan Sache, 9 September 2019
The flag of La Mata is prescribed by an Order issued on 8 October 1997 by the Government of Castilla-La Mancha and published on 24 October 1997 in the official gazette of Castilla-La Mancha, No. 48 pp. 6,606-6,607 (text).
The flag is described as follows:
Flag: Rectangular, in proportions 2:3, white, charged in the center with two blue keys in saltire beneath a green shrub.
The Royal Academy of History validated "without any inconvenience" the proposed flag, which is a banner of the previously approved municipal arms.
[Boletín de la Real Academia de la Historia 195:2, 366. 1998]
The coat of arms of La Mata is prescribed by an Order issued on 18 January 1991 by the Government of Castilla-La Mancha and published on 30 January 1991 in the official gazette of Castilla-La Mancha, No. 8 p. 266 (text).
The coat of arms is described as follows:
Coat of arms: Spanish shield. Argent a shrub [mata] vert in base two keys azure in saltire. The shield surmounted by a Royal crown closed.
Ivan Sache, 9 September 2019
Ivan Sache, 9 September 2019