¡Santiago y cierra, España!

Saint James,represented by 17th-century painterFrancisco Camiloasa Moor-slayerand with theCross of Saint Jamesas an attribute.

[¡Santiago y cierra, España!]Error: {{Lang}}: invalid parameter: |links= (help)is a Spanish-language phrase. The invoking of the apostle's name (Santiago,James in English) is said to have been a commonbattle cryof Christian soldiers in medieval Iberia and beyond into the Early Modern Period.The full form, using a conjugated form of the verbcerrar,is recorded since the late-16th and 17th centuries.It made a comeback in 1930s Spain as it became the motto ofRamiro de Maeztu's right-wing magazineAcción Española.As a reminiscence of a mythicized look on the middle ages, embedded in narratives of the "Recovery"of Catholic Spain against the [Muslim] Other-enemy-invader, it has thus been historically embraced as a political slogan by arch-conservative milieus of Spanish society.As a nationalist symbolic banner, the phrase has been a staple withinfar-right discourses in Spain,developed in war-related and national self-affirmation contexts.The new world cities ofSantiago de CubaandSantiago de Chileare named after the Spanish battle cry.