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Cacín (Municipality, Andalusia, Spain)

Flag of Cacín - Image from the Símbolos de Granada website, 17 May 2014

Presentation of Cacín
Symbols of Cacín
Submunicipal entity of El Turro

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Presentation of Cacín

The municipality of Cacín (626 inhabitants in 2008; 3,900 ha; municipal website) is located 40 km south-west of Granada.
Founded in the 18th century, the village is probably named after the Moorish anthroponym Abul-Qasim; the village was partially rebuilt after the earthquake that occurred in the region in Christmas 1884.

Ivan Sache, 11 July 2009

Symbols of Cacín

The flag and arms of Cacín, adopted on 15 December 2005 by the Municipal Council and submitted on 10 January 2006 to the Directorate General of the Local Administration, are prescribed by a Decree adopted on 19 January 2006 by the Directorate General of the Local Administration and published on 2 February 2006 in the official gazette of Andalusia, No. 22, p. 33 (text).
The symbols are described as follows:

Flag: Rectangular flag, in proportions 2:3, made of five equal horizontal stripes, three blue and two white, and of a red vertical stripe with a white Cacín pot, covering 1/3 of the length.
Coat of arms: Per fess, 1a. Argent a Cacín pot gules, 1b. Gules three arrows argent per fess, 2. Vert a bridge argent masoned sable on fesses wavy azure and argent. The shield surmounted with a Royal crown closed.

The Cacín pot (olla de Cacín, photo) is a Neolithic pot found in the Cacín Cave, now exhibited in the National Archeological Museum of Madrid. The bridge shown on the municipal arms is located a few kilometers from the village on the ancient road linking Cacín and Ventas de Huelma; locally known as "the Roman bridge", it was indeed rebuilt in the second half of the 20th century. The arrows evoke the town's patron saint, St. Sebastian.
[La Opinión de Granada, 18 March 2009; Símbolos de las Entidades Locales de Andalucía. Granada (PDF file)]

Ivan Sache, 11 July 2009

Submunicipal entity of El Turro

Flag of El Turro - Image from the Símbolos de Granada website, 2 September 2018

The submunicipal entity of El Turro (278 inhabitants in 2017; 916 ha) was established by a Resolution adopted on 14 January 2013 by the Directorate General of the Local Administration and published on 6 February 2013 in the official gazette of Andalusia, No. 26, pp. 31-39 (text). This was formerly approved on 22 December 2012 by the Municipal Council of Cacín.

El Turro is famous for its puddingstone quarry. The 64 columns surrounding the circular gallery of the palace erected in Granada for King Charles I were made in 1557 with those stones. The columns should have been made of Macael marble, five times more expensive than the puddingstone, but money shortage favored the El Turro stone. Transport from El Turro (20 km) was also much easier than from Macael (100 km). It took a decade to extract 69 columns of 5.4 m in height and 63 cm in diameter; three columns were lost, another one was used in the St. Mary church of the Alhambra, and one was abandoned near the bridge over river Salado after a cart accident. The latter columns was subsequently transferred in front of the church of Chauchina.
The only remaining part of the old quarry is the El Turro Child's Rock, located at the entrance of the village's main street.
[Waste Magazine]

The flag and arms of El Turro, adopted on 9 May 2018 by the Village Council and submitted the same day to the Directorate General of the Local Administration, are prescribed by a Resolution adopted on 15 May 2018 by the Directorate General of the Local Administration and published on 21 May 2018 in the Andalusian official gazette, No. 96, pp. 480-481 (text).
The symbols are described as follows:

Flag: Panel in proportions S/3, width to length. Vertically divided, at hoist and fly, white, the central third blue, charged in the center with a silver tower with port and windows red, in height 2/3 of the flag's hoist.
Coat of arms: Spanish shield. Azure (blue) a tower argent port and windows gules (red) surrounded by two columns argent. The shield surmounted by a Royal crown closed [detailed description skipped].

Ivan Sache, 2 September 2018