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Flag of Collado de Contreras - Image by Ivan Sache, 7 May 2011
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The municipality of Collado de Contreras (215 inhabitants in 2010; 1,844 ha; unofficial website) is located in the north of Ávila Province, 50 km of Ávila.
Collado de Contreras, resettled during the first third of the 13th century, was built on a small hill named El Collado (lit., "the small hill"). The village, then known as Collado, belonged to the Ávila Council, being the 4th biggest tax provider of the 38 villages forming the Moreña region. In the 16th century, the village took its current name for the Contreras family, from Ávila, lords of Collado since Carlos de Contreras Pamo y Frías.
Ivan Sache, 7 May 2011
The flag and arms of Collado de Contreras are prescribed by a Decree adopted on 13 November 1995 by the Provincial Executive and published on 13 December 1995 in the official gazette of Castile and León, No. 237 (text).
The symbols, officially unveiled on 27 May 1996 in the parish church during the village's festival, are described as follows:
Flag: Rectangular flag, with proportions 2:3, made of five horizontal stripes with proportions 1/4, 1/12, 1/3, 1/12 and 1/4, the outer stripes red, the intermediate stripes white and the central stripe green.
Coat of arms: Shield in Spanish shape. Gules a chestnut proper fructed or fimbriated argent terraced vert surrounded dexter by a goat saltant argent horned sable sinister by an ewe saltant argent. The shield surmounted with a Royal Spanish crown.
Ivan Sache, 7 May 2011