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Cinfães Commune (Portugal)

Freguesia de Cinfães, Concelho da Cinfães, Distrito do Viseu

Last modified: 2025-01-30 by klaus-michael schneider
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[Cinfães commune flag] 2:3, image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 16 Jan 2025
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Cinfães Commune

Flag

It is a typical Portuguese communal flag, with the coat of arms centred on a plain white field.
Source: Sérgio Horta´s webpage
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 16 Jan 2025

Coat of Arms

hield Vert a fess wavy Argent, charged with a barrulet wavy Azure, between two barrulets wavy Argent, over all a labarum with cross staff Or in pale fixing a gonfanon Argent parted by a red Latin cross. Mural crown Argent with three visible towers (village rank) and white scroll reading in black upper case serifed letters "FREGUESIA DE CINFÃES".
Meaning:
The labarum is an attribute of St. John the Baptist, the local patron saint.
Source: Hiperglobal webpage
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 16 Jan 2025

Published in Diário da República: III Série on 27 January 2005
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 16 Jan 2025

Presentation of Cinfães

Cinfães is one of the 13 communes of Cinfães Municipality not affected by the 2013 changes; it had 3080 inhabitants in 2021 and covers 25,43 km².
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 16 Jan 2025

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