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![[Queimada commune flag]](../images/p/pt-ammqm.gif)
2:3, image by António Martins-Tuválkin and Sérgio Horta´, 23 Dec 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, 23 Dec 2024
![[Queimada commune CoA]](../images/p/pt-ammqm).gif)
image by António Martins-Tuválkin and Sérgio Horta, 23 Dec 2024
Shield Gules a mound of three coupeaux Argent issuant from base and charged with a flame Gules garnished Or, on chief two keys crossed saltirewise Or and Argent with their wards pointing upwards and and tied with a ribbon Argent. Mural crown Argent with three visible towers (village rank) and short white scroll, in Bénard Guedes style, reading in black upper case serifed letters "QUEIMADA".
Meaning:
The word "queimada" is a form of the verb "queimar", meaning "to burn": it can be either the feminine passive past participle ("burnt") or a correlate noun, meaning usuallly an agricultural fire clearance — both a burnt area and the act of creating it. The bonfire in the arms is therefore canting. The crossed keys are an attribute of St. Peter, the local patron saint.
Source: Hiperglobal webpage
António Martins-Tuválkin, 23 Dec 2024
Published in Diário da República: III Série on 25 January 2001
António Martins-Tuválkin, 23 Dec 2024
Queimada is one of the ten communes of Armamar Municipality not affected by the 2013 changes; it had 291 inhabitants in 2021 and covers 4,26 km².
António Martins-Tuválkin, 23 Dec 2024
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