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Flag of Moratalla - Image by Ivan Sache, 8 May 2015
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The municipality of Moratalla (8,219 inhabitants in 2014; 95,482 ha; municipal website) is located in the north-west of he Region of Murcia, on the border with Castilla-La Mancha (Province of Albacete), 80 km of Murcia.
Moratalla was settled in the Neolithic, as evidenced by the rocky
paintings of Cañaica del Calar and La Risca.
After the Christian reconquest, Moratalla was granted to the Order of
St. James, which revamped and increased the fortifications of the
town. The castle. originally erected in the 9th century by the Moors
on Iberian remains, was rebuilt in Gothic style, with a donjon (15th
century) of 22 m in height and 9 m in side. The most famous commander
of the castle was Alfonso de Vozmediano (d. 1465), who attempted to
despoil the inhabitants of the town from their land; he was lynched by
the infuriated mob and his body remained exhibited for three days at
the gate of the fortress.
The Rogativa (Supplicant) chapel was erected on the site of a miracle
that occurred in May 1535. The young Ginés Martínez hit a white dove
with a stone; when reaching the ground, the bird morphed into the
Blessed Virgin with a bloody injure in the forehead.
Ivan Sache, 8 May 2015
The flag of Moratalla is white with the municipal coat of arms in the
middle (photo).
The coat of arms of Moratalla is "Azure a castle or masoned and port
and windows sable a ladder sable sinister a chief azure a sun or a
moon argent a bordure gules 12 six-pointed stars or. The shield
surmounted with a Marquis' coronet."
Ivan Sache, 8 May 2015