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Flag of Calzada de los Molinos - Image by "Valdavia" (Wikimedia Commons), 11 February 2011
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The municipality of Calzada de los Molinos (57 inhabitants in 2010; 2,594 ha; municipal website) is located 40 km from Palencia.
Calzada de los Molinos was mentioned for the first time in a document
signed by King Alfonso VIII in 1176, as Calzada. This name, lit. "a
paved road", recalls that the village was crossed by two Roman ways;
the way linking Lacobriga (today, Carrión) to Asturica Augusta
(Astorga) was subsequently used as an alternative to the Way of St.
James.
The mills (molinos) of Calzada were mentioned for the first time in
1389; they belonged to the Santa María de Benevivere abbey and to the
San Zoilo monastery (Carrión de los Condes).
Ivan Sache, 11 February 2011
The flag and arms of Calzada de los Molinos are prescribed by a Decree
adopted on 9 November 2000 by the Municipal Council, signed on 13 November 2000 by the Mayor, and published on 23 February 2001 in the
official gazette of Castilla y León, No. 39, p. 3,138 (text).
The symbols are described as follows:
Flag: Rectangular flag with proportions 1:1, red, in the middle an horizontal stripe of height 1/5 of the flag's hoist; the stripe is itself divided into two stripes, a green and a yellow; in the middle of the flag is placed the crowned coat of arms of Calzada de los Molinos. Proposal No. 3.
Coat of arms: Per fess, 1. Gules a seven-arched bridge or masoned sable over waves argent and azure in chief a scallop argent, 2. Vert three millstones argent. The shield surmounted with a Royal crown or. Proposal No. 1.
Ivan Sache, 11 February 2011
