At the end of the Half Age it highlights a fact of capital importance for the area: the discovery of the image of the Virgin of Pe帽a from France (1434) that converted the built sanctuary later on in a pilgrimage place, to which the pilgrims united of the one on the way to Santiago that you/they followed the call on the way to the South for the Roadway of the Silver.In the XVII century Pe帽a from France, with his Black Virgin, is already mentioned by Cervantes in The Cuisse; the valley of Batuecas is for Lope de Vega the scenario in which you/they take refuge two lovers that escape from the Court. From then on The Swimming pool, with Pe帽a from France and Batuecas, they have been a scenario transformed into myth, in legend.
The Flag of Castile and Le贸n, as he/she is defined in the Article 5 of the Statute of Autonomy of Castile and Le贸n, Organic Law 4/1983, it is cuartelada in cross or contracuartelada. The first and quarter barracks: on gules field, a castle of battlemented gold of three crenels, sable mamposteado and clarado of azure. The second and third barracks: on silver field, a lion purple rampante, linguado, u帽ado and armed of gules, crowned of gold.It is the historical flag of the Crown of Castile from the year 1230. One of the oldest flags in Europe and of the world. Crist贸bal's ships Columbus that you/they discovered America carried it. http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bandera_de_Castilla_y_Le%C3%B3n
The Shield of Castile and Le贸n, as he/she is defined in the Article 5 of the Statute of Autonomy of Castile and Le贸n, Organic Law 4/1983, it is a shield stamped by real open crown, cuartelado in cross or contracuartelado. The first and quarter barracks: on gules field, a castle of battlemented gold of three crenels, sable mamposteado and clarado of azure. The second and third barracks: on silver field, a lion purple rampante, linguado, u帽ado and armed of gules, crowned of gold.The current Shield of Castile and Le贸n is very similar to the one that took like weapons sovereign Fernando III the Saint, the one which in 1230 it inherited of his father the Crown of Le贸n, being united the Kingdom of Castile and of Le贸n, under oneself crown.It is of pointing out that this shield and their flag were those that enarbolaban the caravels that discovered the New World, since of the Crown of Castile the money and men that went aboard in such a company left. http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escudo_de_Castilla_y_Le%C3%B3n