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The Councilor for Culture of the City of Lorca, Agustín Llamas, has announced that the Consistory will temporarily give away the Morisco Flag of Cantoria (Pendón de las Alpujarras) and the document "Legajo 42 before Tomás Giner, 1560, August 25" to be exposed In the exhibition "Sigmun, the glory of the Renaissance in the Kingdom of Murcia", which will be exhibited in the old Church of the Company of Jesus de Caravaca de la Cruz between July and November 2017.
"It is a remnant of the historical past of the city." The Moorish Flag of Cantoria "is a banner whose origin dates back to 1567 and captured the thirds of Lorca to the Muslim troops at the Battle of Cantoria on November 12, 1569 The piece has been restored on two occasions, the first time in 1856 and the last one in 1976 and is currently in the noble hall of Alcaldía.The other element ceded is the "Legajo 42 before Tomás Giner, year 1560, August 25 ", A notarial protocol that is preserved in the Municipal Archive of Lorca and which includes the writing of a contract of retablo between Rodrigo Muñoz and the painter Alonso de Monreal, which shows a drawing of the altarpiece made by Alonso Monreal himself," explained Agustín Llamas.
The Councilor for Culture recalled that "the piece has a great symbolic value and was possibly identified in the sixteenth century as one of four banners subtracted by the arquebusiers of Lorca in Arboleas when they came to recover Oria and Cantoria, besieged by the Moors rebels "This victory over the Moors became a key event in the history of our city to the point that for decades it was commemorated with a celebration to remember such a glorious feat.
The flag, which is an excellent example of textile manufacture of the Nasrid tradition, consists of 3 pieces sewn and 12 elongated and pointed barbs at its lower end.
It has a canvas surface embroidered in silk of 143 x 103 cm dyed red, color representative of the Nasrid dynasty.
In the upper fringe we can see an inscription with Arabic calligraphy cut in white which, according to Fontenla, must be translated as "(I take refuge) in the God of Satan, the stoned." In the name of God, the merciful. On Muhammad and his own) "and, under this legend, another decorative strip with three eight-pointed stars, two double crosses in green and two circles with jagged edges, all trimmed in leather, in addition to other heraldic elements and motifs Talismans
In the center of the banner there is a white crenellated castle realized in applied fabric, with a door with horseshoe arch and a tower of the homage under the motto "Cantoria cibdad", in Gothic letter.
More than 12 hands of Fatima are distributed in linear series, surrounding the castle, and on the bow and 2 keys, one on each side.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Lorca
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