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Flag of Collado de la Vera - Image by Ivan Sache, 20 March 2020
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The municipality of Collado de la Vera (203 inhabitants in 2017 vs. 1,603 in 1960; municipal website) is located 130 km north-east of Cáceres and 50 km east of Plasencia. The municipality is made of the villages of Collado and Vega de Mesillas (2 inh.).
Collado de la Vera, the smallest municipality in the Vera region, is located on a hill (collado). The St. Christopher parish church was granted the yearly celebration of a Holy Jubilee, a very unusual frequency in the Christian world. The privilege appears to have been granted in the 16th century by Cardinal Pedro de Carvajal.
Ivan Sache, 20 March 2020
The flag of Collado de la Vera, adopted on 15 June 2005 by the Municipal Council and validated on 23 March 2006 by the Assessing Council of Honors and Distinctions of the Government of Extremadura, is prescribed by an Order issued on 27 March 2006 by the Government of Extremadura and published on 8 April 2006 in the official gazette of Extremadura, No. 42, pp. 6,229-6,230 (text).
The flag is described as follows:
Flag: Horizontal, in proportions 2:3. Horizontally divided into three equal parts; the upper, green, the central, white, and the lower, red, with the municipal coat of arms in full colors placed in the center.
The coat of arms of Collado de la Vera, adopted on 2 June 1994 by the Municipal Council and revised on 17 January 1995 after the recommendation issued on 8 November 1994 by the Assessing Council of Honors and Distinctions of the Government of Extremadura, which validated it on 7 March 1995, is prescribed by an Order issued on 11 April 1995 by the Government of Extremadura and published on 20 April 1995 in the official gazette of Extremadura, No. 45, pp. 1,459-1,460 (text).
The coat of arms is described as follows:
Coat of arms: Argent St. Christopher gules on waves azure and argent chaussé vert two olive trees argent. The shield surmounted by a Royal crown closed.
The Royal Academy of History, when submitted the flag proposal, pointed out that the coat of arms to be featured on the flag had been validated by the Autonomous Community of Extremadura but not by the Academy, and, therefore, let the approval decision to the Autonomous Community.
[Boletín de la Real Academia de la Historia. 2006. 203:2, 191]
Ivan Sache, 20 March 2020