Calahorra de Boedo (Municipality, Castilla y León, Spain)

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Flag of Calahorra de Boedo - Image by "Valdavia" (Wikimedia Commons), slightly modified, 22 December 2010

• Presentation of Calahorra de Boedo
• Symbols of Calahorra de Boedo

See also:

• Spain
• Castilla y León (Autonomous Community, Spain)
• Palencia Province (Castilla y León, Spain)

Presentation of Calahorra de Boedo

The municipality of Calahorra de Boedo (109 inhabitants in 2009; 1,799 ha) is located 70 km from Palencia.
Calahorra was probably named after the Arabic word calagurra, "a free castle". Already settled in the pre-Roman and Roman times, the area was re-settled in the 11th century.

Ivan Sache, 22 December 2010

Symbols of Calahorra de Boedo

The flag and arms of Calahorra de Boedo are prescribed by a Decree adopted on 19 July 2004 by the Municipal Council, signed on 28 July 2004 by the Mayor, and published on 11 August 2004 in the official gazette of Castilla y León, No. 154, p. 11,815 (text).
The symbols are described as follows:

Flag: Rectangular flag in proportions 2:3, tierced at hoist. Made of three fields at hoist: first and third, gules or red, a cauldron or or yellow, second, two orders of vair. Red at fly with a tower or or yellow.
Coat of arms: Shield of Spanish shape. Gules a tower or port and windows azure a bordure of eight pieces with two orders vair and eight pieces gules with a cauldron or. The shield surmounted with a Royal Spanish crown.

Ivan Sache, 22 December 2010