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Vale de Bouro Commune (Portugal)

Freguesia de Vale de Bouro, Concelho de Concelho de Celorico de Basto, Distrito de Braga

2:3, image by António Martins-Tuválkin and Sérgio Horta´, 28 Feb 2025

Flag
Coat of Arms
Presentation of Vale de Bouro

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Flag

It is a typical Portuguese communal flag, with the coat of arms centred on a plain red field.
Source: Sérgio Horta´s webpage
António Martins-Tuválkin, 28 Feb 2025

Coat of Arms

image by António Martins-Tuválkin and Sérgio Horta, 28 Feb 2025

Shield Or chaussé Sable a perfumer´s vase Gules. Mural crown Argent with three visible towers (village rank) and white scroll reading in black upper case serifed letters "VALE DE BOURO".
Meaning:
The phrase "vale de" means literally "valley of", implying that "Bouro" is a river name. However, there is no such river in Portugal, see list of Portuguese rivers in Portuguese WIKIPEDIA. Thus the coat of arms shows no river of any kind. The arms could also be blazoned as follows: Shield Sable a pile throughout Or charged with a perfumer´s vase Gules. If the pile is meant to represent a valley, then it would be partly canting. Depending on source the shape of the vase is of very different kind. The perfumer´s vase, also called scent bottle is the usual attribute of St. Mary Magdalen. She is not the local patron saint and the parish church is dedicated to St. Martin. But she enjoys a great veneration by the people of Vale de Bouro.
Sources: Hiperglobal webpage
This webpage
António Martins-Tuválkin and Klaus-Michael Schneider, 28 Feb 2025

Published in Diário da República: II Série on 15 July 2011, see here
António Martins-Tuválkin, 28 Feb 2025

Presentation of Vale de Bouro

Vale de Bouro is one of the ten communes of Celorico de Basto Municipality not affected by the 2013 changes ; it had 818 inhabitants in 2021 and covers 7,89 km².
António Martins-Tuválkin, 28 Feb 2025

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