Buenache de Alarcón (Municipality, Castilla-La Mancha, Spain)

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Flag of Buenache de Alarcón - Image by Ivan Sache, 15 June 2019

• Presentation of Buenache de Alarcón
• Symbols of Buenache de Alarcón

See also:

• Spain
• Castilla-La Mancha (Autonomous Community, Spain)
• Province of Cuenca (Castilla-La Mancha, Spain)

Presentation of Buenache de Alarcón

The municipality of Buenache de Alarcón (446 inhabitants in 2018, 6,416 ha; municipal website) is located 60 km due south of Cuenca.
Buenache de Alarcón appears to have been named for Axenia, the pre-Roman town located on the banks of brook Torrejón, from which a necropolis dated to the Age of Iron (400 BC) was excavated.
After the Christian reconquest, the area was incorporated to the Common of the Town and Land of Alarcón.

Buenache de Alarcón is the birth place of Father Andrés Marcos Burriel y López (1719-1762). Appointed Professor of Philosophy at the Imperial College in 1745 and at the College of the Society of Jesus in Alcalá de Henares in 1747, he was commissioned by Father Rávago, confessor of King Ferdinand VI, and by the Marquess de la Ensanada to study the archives of the Toledo cathedral, from which he transcribed some 1,000 documents.

Ivan Sache, 15 June 2019

Symbols of Buenache de Alarcón

The flag of Buenache de Alarcón is prescribed by an Order issued on 20 April 2005 by the Government of Castilla-La Mancha and published on 2 May 2005 in the official gazette of Castilla-La Mancha, No. 87, p. 8,857 (text).
The flag is described as follows:

Flag: In proportions 2:3, tierced per bend, from hoist to fly, yellow, garnet and yellow. charged in the center with the crowned coat of arms.

The coat of arms of Buenache de Alarcón is prescribed by an Order issued on 20 April 2005 by the Government of Castilla-La Mancha and published on 2 May 2005 in the official gazette of Castilla-La Mancha, No. 87, p. 8,857 (text).
The coat of arms is described as follows:

Coat of arms: Chequy, 1. Gules three castles or, 2. Argent two lions gules, 3. Or two caldrons sable, 4. Gules seven bends sinister or, 5. Azur a triangular stone (rock) or, 6. Gules twelve golden squares, 7. Or a castle purpure surmounted by a warrior argent issuant from the crenels holding dexter a sword and sinister a shield, 8. Argent a cross of the Inquisition sable, 9. Azure a castle or surrounded in the middle by eight stars or. A bordure azure a chain or. The shield surmounted by a Royal Spanish crown.

Ivan Sache, 15 June 2019