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![[Vacalar commune flag]](../images/p/pt-ammvc.gif)
2:3, image by António Martins-Tuválkin and Sérgio Horta´, 18 Dec 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, 18 Dec 2024
![[Vacalar commune CoA]](../images/p/pt-amm).gif)
image by António Martins-Tuválkin and Sérgio Horta, 18 Dec 2024
Shield Or a barrel Purple hooped Argent and rivetted Sable, on chief two flax flowers Azure seeded Argent, on base wavy Azure a barrulet wavy 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 "VACALAR".
Source: Hiperglobal webpage
António Martins-Tuválkin, 18 Dec 2024
Published in Diário da República: III Série on 28 February 2005
António Martins-Tuválkin, 18 Dec 2024
Vacalar was created in 1958, already after the establishment of the current system of Portuguese local flags, but still at a time when only municipalities were expected to have coat of arms and flag, while communes (as a lower level subdivision, the lowest) only exceptionally were granted them — until the mid-1990s.
It is one of the ten communes of Armamar Municipality not affected by the 2013 changes; it had 172 inhabitants in 2021 and covers 6,04 km².
António Martins-Tuválkin, 18 Dec 2024
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