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The municipality of Vitigudino (2,866 inhabitants in 2012; 5,233 ha) is located in the northwest of the Salamanca Province, 70 km from Salamanca. The municipality is made of the town of Vitigudino and of the village of Majuges (55 inh.).
Ivan Sache, 8 March 2014
The flag of Vitigudino (photo, photo, photo) is purple with the municipal coat of arms in the middle.
The coat of arms of Vitigudino shown on the flag (image) is "Gules a feather
and a sword argent per saltire ensigned by a St. Anthony's cross of
the same. The shield placed on a cartouche or and surmounted by a
coronet of the same. Beneath the shield two branches vert".
According to Wikipedia (no source quoted), the arms were adopted in
1870. The cross recalls the battle fought near Vitigudino on 17
January 1477, St. Anthony's Day, during the Castilian Civil War. The
feather and the sword represent the two most famous children of
Vitigudino, Nicolás de Rivera "El Mozo" and Francisco Ramos del
Manzano, respectively.
Nicolás de Rivera "El Mozo" came to Peru in 1534-1536 with Francisco
Pizarre, who appointed him encomendero of Maranga, Huatica and
Vegueta, and regidor of Lima (22 January 1535).
Francisco Ramos del Manzano (1604-1683) studied and then taught Law at
the Salamanca University. He was appointed Senator of Milan, Regent of
the Italy Council, Councillor of Castile and Ambassador
Plenipotentiary at the Treaty of the Pyrenees (1659). Queen Mother
Mariana of Austria appointed him on 24 May 1667 Private Tutor of King
Charles II, then aged 6, preferring Ramos del Manzano to various,
ambitious, Grandees of Spain and nobles of higher rank. Charles II
granted him the title of 1st Count of Francos in 1678.
The municipality currently uses a coat of arms of the same design, but
with the field azure (municipal website).
The coat of arms of Vitigudino is shown on the 4th quarter of the coat
of arms of Salamanca Province, here argent with the feather gules,
the sword or, and the cross azure.
Ivan Sache, 8 March 2014
