There are two coat of Avilés city in the façade of City Town Hall.
"The coat of arms of Avilés ( Asturias ) is defined in the Avilés City Council Corporate Identity Manual, although it lacks legal sanction.
It is based on the shield usually used since 1979 , an adaptation of the baroque coat of arms found on the façade of the town hall.
In the field of Gules (red) and on waves of azure and silver, a three-masted ship, made of gold, with unfurled silver sails, with a saw on the prow, with a gold cross on the mainmast, ramming some chains supported by two golden towers. On the main and ratchet poles, a silver bugle flag in each one, and on the mizzen pole a quartered bugle flag of azure and silver. All about an oval shield, adorned with lambrequins and topped with a closed royal crown.
This shield represents the conquest of Seville and the breaking of the chains that protected the city, by Asturian and Santander sailors under the command of Admiral Ramón de Bonifaz y Camargo on May 3 , 1248 during the reign of King Fernando III of Castile . It includes the Seville's Torre del Oro and the ship, whose prow carried a saw, in which the Avilesino captain Ruí Pérez , also known as Ruí González and his men broke the chains that linked Seville with Triana .
After the surrender of Seville, the King wanted such a feat to appear on the shields of the villas of the captains of the Cantabrian ships that had intervened in the conquest, which both Avilés and Santander , the capital of Cantabria, did ."
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