Sant Cugat del Vallès

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SANT CUGAT DEL VALLÈS

Region : Catalonia
Province : Barcelona

Official blazon

Escut caironat truncat: 1r. de gules, 2 claus passades en sautor amb les dents al cap i mirant cap enfora, la d'or en banda i la d'argent en barra, ressaltades d'un monestir de porpra tancat d'argent; i al 2n. d'or, 4 pals de gules. Per timbre una corona mural de ciutat.

Origin/meaning

These arms have been officially granted on 25th April 2001.

The arms show the benedictine abbey of Sant Cugat del Vallès (11^th century), the most important monastery in the county of Barcelona, erected in memory of the African martyr Cugat (or Cucuphas, 4^th century), beheaded in that place. The town developed aside the monastery, and had its own parish church, Sant Pere d'Octavià (represented here by the keys of St. Peter behind the monastery). Finally, the royal arms of Catalonia-Aragon (four pales Gules on Or) remind the privileges that the count-kings granted to the town (as, for instance, having a fair and a weekly market).