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![[Alvão (Vila Pouca de Aguiar) commune flag (until 2013)]](../images/p/pt-vpaav.gif)
2:3, image by António Martins-Tuválkin and Sérgio Horta, 24 Sep 2024
It is a typical Portuguese communal flag, with the coat of arms centred on a plain yellow field.
Source: Sérgio Horta´s webpage
António Martins-Tuválkin, 24 Sep 2024
![[Alvão commune CoA (until 2013)]](../images/p/pt-vpaav).gif)
image by António Martins-Tuválkin and Sérgio Horta, 24 Sep 2024
Shield Purple an ox Or, in chief three lozenges Or and on a mound of three coupeaux Argent garnished Vert issuant from the base a lake Azure with waves Argent. Mural crown Argent with three visible towers (village rank) and white scroll reading in black upper case serifed letters "ALVÃO".
Source: Sérgio Horta´s webpage
António Martins-Tuválkin, 24 Sep 2024
Published in Diário da República: II Série on 23 June 2014, see here
António Martins-Tuválkin, 24 Sep 2024
Alvão is one of the two communes of Vila Pouca de Aguiar Municipality created by a merger during the 2013 changes. It had 774 inhabitants in 2021 and covers 53,7 km².
António Martins-Tuválkin, 24 Sep 2024
![[Afonsim commune flag (until 2013)]](../images/p/pt-vpaav-af.gif)
2:3, image by António Martins-Tuválkin and Sérgio Horta, 25 Sep 2024
It is a typical Portuguese communal flag, with the coat of arms centred on a plain white field.
Source: Sérgio Horta´s webpage
António Martins-Tuválkin, 25 Sep 2024
![[Afonsim commune CoA (until 2013)]](../images/p/pt-vpaav-af).gif)
image by António Martins-Tuválkin andSérgio Horta, 25 Sep 2024
Shield Azure a cow passant guardnt Or armed Argent, in chief two distaffs with their spindles Or, flax threaded Argent and set per saltire. Mural crown Argent with three visible towers (village rank) and short white scroll, in Bénard Guedes style, reading in black upper case serifed letters "AFONSIM".
Meaning:
The cow is specified to be of the local maronesa breed, but its differentiating zootechnical details evade the legally prescribed need for heraldic stylization and, indeed, the artist´s abilities.
Source: Hiperglobal webpage
António Martins-Tuválkin, 25 Sep 2024
Published in Diário da República: II Série on 9 May 2003,
António Martins-Tuválkin, 25 Sep 2024
Afonsim was one of the six communes of Vila Pouca de Aguiar Municipality affected by the 2013 changes. It had 183 inhabitants in 2021 and covered 11,07 km².
António Martins-Tuválkin, 25 Sep 2024
![[Gouvães da Serra commune flag (until 2013)]](../images/p/pt-vpaav-gs.gif)
2:3, image by António Martins-Tuválkin and Sérgio Horta, 27 Sep 2024
It is a typical Portuguese communal flag, with the coat of arms centred on a plain yellow field.
Source: Sérgio Horta´s webpage
António Martins-Tuválkin, 27 Sep 2024
![[Gouvães da Serra commune CoA (until 2013)]](../images/p/pt-vpaav-gs).gif)
image by António Martins-Tuválkin and Sérgio Horta, 27 Sep 2024
Shield Azure an Iberian ibex passant Argent and in chief three rye ears in fess per pale and issuant from the base a mound Argent garnished Vert. Mural crown Argent with three visible towers (village rank) and white scroll reading in black upper case serifed letters "GOUVÃES DA SERRA".
Meaning:
Source: Hiperglobal webpage
António Martins-Tuválkin, 27 Sep 2024
Published in Diário da República: II Série on 12 August 2008, see here
António Martins-Tuválkin, 27 Sep 2024
Gouvães da Serra was one of the six communes of Vila Pouca de Aguiar Municipality affected by the 2013 changes. It had 133 inhabitants in 2011 and covered 15,37 km².
António Martins-Tuválkin, 27 Sep 2024
![[Lixa do Alvão commune flag (until 2013)]](../images/p/pt-vpaav-la.gif)
2:3, image by António Martins-Tuválkin and Sérgio Horta, 27 Sep 2024
It is a typical Portuguese communal flag, with the coat of arms centred on a plain purple field.
Source: Sérgio Horta´s webpage
António Martins-Tuválkin, 27 Sep 2024
![[Lixa do Alvão commune CoA (until 2013)]](../images/p/pt-vpaav-la).gif)
image by António Martins-Tuválkin and Sérgio Horta,
Shield Argent a potato plant eradicated Vert with its tubers Purple, on a mound of three coupeaux Vert issuant from the base a lozenge Or. Mural crown Argent with three visible towers (village rank) and white scroll reading in black upper case serifed letters "LIXA DO ALVÃO".
Source: Hiperglobal webpage
António Martins-Tuválkin, 27 Sep 2024
Published in Diário da República: II Série on 18 January 2007, see here
António Martins-Tuválkin, 27 Sep 2024
Lixa do Alvão was one of the six communes of Vila Pouca de Aguiar Municipality affected by the 2013 changes. It had 424 inhabitants in 2011 and covered 14,49 km².
António Martins-Tuválkin, 27 Sep 2024
![[Santa Marta da Montanha commune flag (until 2013)]](../images/p/pt-vpaav-sm.gif)
2:3, image by António Martins-Tuválkin and Sérgio Horta, 28 Sep 2024
It is a typical Portuguese communal flag, with the coat of arms centred on a plain yellow field.
Source: Sérgio Horta´s webpage
António Martins-Tuválkin, 28 Sep 2024
![[Santa Marta da Montanha commune CoA (until 2013)]](../images/p/pt-vpaav-sm).gif)
image by António Martins-Tuválkin and Sérgio Horta, 28 Sep 2024
Shield Azure two dolmens Argent set per fess, in chief a wyvern Or animated and langued and armed Gules, on base a fess wavy Argent. Mural crown Argent with three visible towers (village rank) and white scroll reading in black upper case serifed letters "SANTA MARTA DA MONTANHA".
Meaning:
As frequently happens with recent CHAAP material, what is blazoned as a dragon (dragão) is represented as a wyvern (serpe) — showing only two legs; in the case at hand this is compounded by the needless (and kinda problematic in what it reveals) mention that this is a winged dragon (dragão alado), as if a wingless dragon were the default.
The dolmens are correctly specified to be of the archeologic kind (antas arqueológicas) because this word anta in Portuguese may also mean "tapir" (and indeed "tapir" is a Portuguese synonym of it); no actual tapirs in modern Portuguese local heraldry, as far as I know, although there is no justifiable reason for that.
Source: Hiperglobal webpage
António Martins-Tuválkin, 28 Sep 2024
Published in Diário da República: II Série on 14 July 2007, see here
António Martins-Tuválkin, 28 Sep 2024
Santa Marta da Montanha was one of the six communes of Vila Pouca de Aguiar Municipality affected by the 2013 changes. It had 135 inhabitants in 2021 and covered 12,14 km².
António Martins-Tuválkin, 28 Sep 2024
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