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Flag of San Esteban de Nogales - Image by Antonio Gutiérrez (VexiLeón website), 9 February 2011
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The municipality of San Esteban de Nogales (305 inhabitants in 2009; 3,224 ha) is located in the south of León Province, 70 km of León.
San Esteban de Nogales developed around the Santa María de Nogales monastery, founded in 1150 by Vela Gutiérrez and Sancha Ponce. The primary, Benedictine monastery was abandoned in 1160 after Vela
Gutiérrez' death, for an unknown reason. On 20 December 1164, Sancha
Ponce transferred all her goods and rights in Nogales to the
Cistercian monks of Santa María de Moreruela (Zamora), provided they
would build a new monastery.
Today ruined, the Santa María de Nogales monastery is registered on
the Spanish Red List of (endangered) Heritage (notice). Marble statues in Italian style, taken from the monastery, are shown in the Museum of the Hispanic Society, New York. In September 2006, a full arch was stolen from the ruins.
Ivan Sache, 9 February 2011
The flag and arms of San Esteban de Nogales are prescribed by a Decree
adopted on 27 January 2001 by the Municipal Council, signed on 29 January 2001 by the Mayor, and published on 9 February 2001 in the
official gazette of Castilla y León, No. 29, p. 2,306 (text).
The symbols are described as follows:
Flag: Rectangular flag, with proportions 2:3, divided in three horizontal stripes with proportions 2:7, 3:7 and 2:7, the outer stripes purple and the central stripe white with the municipal coat of arms in the middle.
Coat of arms: Quarterly, 1. Azure an apse or, 2. Argent a lion purpure crowned and armed or langued gules, 3. Argent a nut tree [nogal] eradicated vert, 4. Azure, a wooden bridge over waves argent and azure. The shield surmounted with a Royal crown closed.
The first quarter of the arms recalls the former Santa María de Nogales monastery.
The bridge shown on the fourth quarter, made of a structure of alder
wood covered with grass (photo), crosses river Eria; it is used during the
traditional pilgrimage to the St. George chapel, located across the
river.
Ivan Sache, 9 February 2011
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