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Flag of Totana - Image by Ivan Sache, 10 May 2015
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The municipality of Totana (30,669 inhabitants in 2014; 28,893 ha; municipal website) is located in the south-west of the Region of Murcia, 50 km of Murcia. Totana was continuously settled in the Prehistoric, Iberian, Roman and Moorish times. Artefacts excavated from various sites can be seen in the Archeological Museum of the Province of Murcia and in the Archeological Museum of Lorca.
Ivan Sache, 10 May 2015
The flag of Totana (photo, photo) is white with a red Cross of St. James.
On 14 April 1257, King Alfonso X the Wise granted the town of Aledo
and the village of Totana, reconquerred from the Moors, to the Order
of St. James, which established the Aledo-Totana commandery.
According to the municipal archives, a white banner charged with the
red cross of the Order was used in processions, especially those
invoking St. Eulalia's protection against epidemics. The banner was
also hoisted on the balcony of the Town Hall and used as a war flag by
the municipal militia when fighting against pirates in Cartagena and
Mazarrón.
A document of the Municipal Council dated 23 November 1563,
prescribing the purchase of a new banner, together with the accounts
dated 2 February 1574, allow the reconstruction of the original
banner. The Council allocated 25 ducats, mostly for the purchase of
stuff. The fabric amounted to 189 reales, the tassels to 8 reales and
the embroidering of the cross to 8 reales. The flag is described as
"on a white background, in the middle the 'lagarto' of Our Lord St.
James". "lagarto", colloquially meaning "a red sword", here the emblem
of the Order of St. James, was used to name the Cross of the Order.
The flag was bordered with a golden yellow and crimson red fringe, and
equipped with two tassels of the same colours attached to the upper
hoist.
[Municipal website]
Dov Gutterman, Santiago Dotor and Ivan Sache, 10 May 2015
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