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![[Vale Benfeito commune]](../images/p/pt-mcdvb.gif)
2:3 image by Sérgio Horta, 18 Apr 2016
It is a typical Portuguese communal flag, with the coat of arms centred on a plain yellow field.
António Martins-Tuválkin, 18 Apr 2016
![[Vale Benfeito commune CoA]](../images/p/pt-mcdvb).gif)
image by Sérgio Horta, 18 Apr 2016
The shield is Azure, four archeological daggerblades Or per pale set in cross with its piercings showing the field. Mural crown Argent with three visible towers and white scroll reading in black upper case letters "VALE BENFEITO". The scroll shape in local use is the most usual, as can be attested by this photo
Meaning:
"Vale benfeito", a contraction of "vale bem feito", means "fair valley" (lit. "well made valley", a slightly archaic turn-of-phrase): not canting.
Source: this webpage
António Martins-Tuválkin, 18 Apr 2016
That one does have the blue field showing in the black dots, but that's how it is: They look like black dots. Is there a way to let the black division lines be less dominant? Maybe draw them on the understanding that they’re part of the material, rather than of the hole?
Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 18 Apr 2016
Flag and arms approved by the communal parliament on 20 March 2009, published in the official journal Diário da República: II Série on 27 April 2009
Source: Diário da República
António Martins-Tuválkin, 18 Apr 2016
Vale Benfeito Commune is one of the 30 communes of Macedo de Cavaleiros Municipality; it had 181 inhabitants in 2011 and covers 15.9 km².
António Martins-Tuválkin, 18 Apr 2016
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