Ribeira das Taínhas Commune (Portugal)

Freguesia de Ribeira das Taínhas, Concelho de Vila Franca do Campo, Açores

Last modified: 2024-06-15 by klaus-michael schneider
Keywords: ribeira das tainhas | banana(tree) | base(wavy) | grey mullet |
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• Ribeira das Taínhas Commune
• Flag
• Coat of Arms
• Presentation of Ribeira das Taínhas

• Vila Franca do Campo Municipality
• Portugal

Flag

It is a typical Portuguese communal flag, with the coat of arms centred on a field quartered of green and yellow.
Source: Sérgio Horta´s webpage
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 12 June 2024

Coat of Arms

Shield Or, an eradicated banana tree Vert fruited of the same and blossomed Purpure at sinister, base wavy of Azure and Argent, the Argent bar charged with three grey mullets Gules in fess. Mural crown Argent with three visible towers (village rank) and white scroll with inscription in black capitals "RIBEIRA DAS TAÍNHAS".
Meaning:
The communes name means "bank of the grey mullets (Port.: taínhas)" and is alluding to the riches of that kind of fish. Base and fish are thus canting elements. The tree is representing agriculture, especially the cultivation of bananas.
Source: communal heraldry page
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 12 Mar 2018

Published in Diário da República: III Série on 19 November 2003
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 12 Mar 2018

Presentation of Ribeira das Taínhas

Ribeira das Taínhas is one of the six communes of Vila Franca do Campo Municipality; it had 703 inhabitants in 2011 and covers 9,9 km².
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 12 Mar 2018

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