El Cubo del Vino (Municipality, Castilla y León, Spain)

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Flag of El Cubo del Vino - Image by Ivan Sache, 20 March 2011

• Presentation of El Cubo del Vino
• Symbols of El Cubo del Vino

See also:

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

Presentation of El Cubo del Vino

The municipality of El Cubo del Vino (aka El Cubo de la Tierra del Vino, or, simply, El Cubo; 421 inhabitants in 2010; 3,400 h) is located in the Zamora Province, 30 km from Zamora.

Ivan Sache, 20 March 2011

Symbols of El Cubo del Vino

The flag and arms of El Cubo del Vino are prescribed by a Decree adopted on 14 April 1999 by the Zamora Provincial Government, signed on 17 May 1999 by the President of the Government, and published on 1 June 1999 in the official gazette of Castilla y León, No. 103, pp. 5,840-5,841 (text).
The symbols are described as follows:

Flag: Rectangular flag, with proportions 2:3, made of a white panel with a red diagonal stripe running from the lower hoist to the upper fly, three green disks in upper hoist and a red Greek cross in lower fly.
Coat of arms: Argent a bend sinister gules in chief a bunch of grapes vert in base a church gules masoned sable. The shield surmounted with a Royal crown closed.

The Royal Academy of History rejected the proposed flag, arguiing it includes charges not shown in the proposed arms; the Academy recommended to remove the bend sinister from the arms, as a charge of late and marginal origin, with negative connotations and absent from traditional arms (Boletín de la Real Academia de la Historia, 2001, 179, 1: 180).

Ivan Sache, 20 March 2011