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Flag of Aldea del Cano - Image by Ivan Sache, 19 March 2020
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The municipality of Aldea del Cano (651 inhabitants in 2016, 2,869 ha; municipal website) is located 30 km south of Cáceres.
Aldea del Cano is of unknown origin. In the 17th century, Ortiz de Tovar claimed that the village was founded in 1292 by Cano de la Rocha, a knight from Cáceres, on behalf of King Henry IV and the church of Coria. There is, however, not the least historical evidence of such a foundation. Another theory mentions the Cano inn, located on the Silver Way. A least known hypothesis alludes to the numerous sources and fountains, for which the village would have been named Aldea del Caño (The Waterpipe's village).
The first settlement of the area must date back to the Roman foundation of Mérida by Augustus. A stone engraved with "Trajani Cons II" might recall that Consul Trajan repaired the Roman road for the second time.
Ivan Sache, 19 March 2020
The flag and arms of Aldea del Cano, adopted on 25 March 2004 by the Municipal Council and validated on 9 November 2004 by the Assessing Council of Honors and Distinctions of the Government of Extremadura, are prescribed by an Order issued on 15 November 2004 by the Government of Extremadura and published on 4 December 2004 in the official gazette of Extremadura, No. 141, pp. 14,546-14,547 (text).
The symbols are described as follows:
Flag: Rectangular, in proportions 2:3. Vertically divided. At hoist, a stripe of 2/3, red, 1/6 white and 1/6 red. At fly, a stripe 1/6 red, 1/6 white and 2/3 red. In the center a white stripe of double length, charged with the municipal coat of arms.
Coat of arms: Azure a bell tower or masoned sable port and windows gules and a stump proper standing on a base vert. A bordure compony of six pieces Castile and León. The shield surmounted by a Spanish Royal crown.
The bell tower represents the parish church dedicated to St. Martin (15th-16th century). The three-storey square tower is appended to the single nave of the church.
[Municipal website]
The stump (tuero) recalls a traditional festival held in the village every 15 August. The young men and women reaching legal age have to pull down out from a truck a big holly oak stump. The stump will stay on the village's square, in front of the parish church and the Town Hall, until be burned down during the next Christmas' night.
This odd event is interpreted as the modern version of a rite of passage of probable pre-Roman origin, subsequently associated with conscription.
[Cáceres Al Detalle blog, 16 August 2016]
Ivan Sache, 19 March 2020