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![[Ala e Vilarinho do Monte united commune flag]](../images/p/pt-mcdav.gif)
2:3, image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 20 May 2025
It is a typical Portuguese communal flag, with the coat of arms centred on a plain red field.
Source: Sérgio Horta´s webpage
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 20 May 2025
![[Ala e Vilarinho do Monte united commune CoA]](../images/p/pt-mcdav).gif)
image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 20 May 2025
Shield Argent two olive branches Vert fructed Sable in saltire, on central chief a cross patty Gules charged with a Greek cross Argent, issuant from base a triplemount Vert charged with a pig statant Or. Mural crown Argent with three visible towers (village rank) and white scroll reading in black upper case serifed letters "UNIÃO DAS FREGUESIAS DE ALA E VILARINHO DO MONTE".
Meaning:
The cross is alluding to the Order of the Knights of Christ. The pig is taken from the arms of the former Vilarinho do Monte Commune.
Source: Sérgio Horta´s webpage
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 20 May 2025
Published in Diário da República: II Série on 12 December 2020
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 20 May 2025
Ala e Vilarinho do Monte is one of the six communes of Macedo de Cavaleiros Municipality created by a merger during the 2013 changes. It had 412 inhabitants in 2021 and covers 40,77 km².
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 20 May 2025
Ala was one of the 14 communes of Macedo de Cavaleiros Municipality affected by the 2013 changes. It had 417 inhabitants in 2011 and covered 33,76 km². The commune probably has no proper symbols, just an empty shield with inscription and mural crown with three visible towers is displayed in this webpage
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 23 Apr 2016
![[Vilarinho do Monte commune (until 2013)]](../images/p/pt-mcdav-vm.gif)
2:3, image by Sérgio Horta, 26 Mar 2016
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, 26 Mar 2016
![[Vilarinho do Monte commune (until 2013)]](../images/p/pt-mcdav-vm).gif)
image by Sérgio Horta, 26 Mar 2016
Shield Or, on a mound Vert a pig Argent emphasized Sable and eyed Gules, atop the mound an embattled Roman fortress (lit.: a castrum-like building) Gules masoned Argent.
Mural crown Argent with three visible towers and white scroll reading in black upper case letters "VILARINHO DO MONTE".
Meaning:
"Vilarinho" means something like "small settlement" and "monte" means "hill", which makes the arms partly canting. However the whole toponym is a miniaturisation for a nearby village and commune seat, Vilar do Monte, to which it was named (one of many such cases in Portugal). I have no specific info about any additional symbolism for the pig and the fortress, apart from the obvious.
Source: this webpage
António Martins-Tuválkin, 26 Mar 2016
Published in Diário da República: III Série on 20 October 2005,
António Martins-Tuválkin, 26 Mar 2016
Vilarinho do Monte was one of the 14 communes of Macedo de Cavaleiros Municipality affected by the 2013 changes. It had 67 inhabitants in 2011 and covered 7,3 km².
António Martins-Tuválkin, 26 Mar 2016
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