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![[Santa Cruz da Trapa e São Cristóvão de Lafões united commune flag]](../images/p/pt-spsss.gif)
2:3, image by António Martins-Tuválkin and Sérgio Horta, 14 Apr 2025
It is a typical Portuguese communal flag, with the coat of arms centred on a field quartered of green and white.
Source: Sérgio Horta´s webpage
António Martins-Tuválkin, 14 Apr 2025
![[Santa Cruz da Trapa e São Cristóvão de Lafões united commune CoA]](../images/p/pt-spsss).gif)
image by António Martins-Tuválkin andSérgio Horta, 14 Apr 2025
Shield Argent a mound Vert issuant from flanches and from base wavy Argent and Azure barruly wavy of four, in chief a four-pointed star Gules conjoined with a cross fleury of the same voided Argent. Mural crown Argent with four visible towers (town rank) and white scroll reading in black upper case serifed letters "UNIÃO DAS FREGUESIAS DE SANTA CRUZ" (1st line) "DA TRAPA E SÃO CRISTÓVÃO DE LAFÕES" (2nd line, bigger).
Meaning:
As usual for these communes with hybrid toponyms created in 2012 by joining two or more pre-existing communes, in a time when most of them had already established flags and coats of arms, the newly created arms are also themselves a hybrid of those previous ones — such as in this case: The hillock from Lafões, the cross from Trapa, and the waves from
both. (And why isn´t the new commune named more simply Trapa e Lafões?)
Source: Sérgio Horta´s webpage
António Martins-Tuválkin and Christopher Southworth, 14 Apr 2025
Published in Diário da República: II Série on 17 October 2014, see here
António Martins-Tuválkin, 14 Apr 2025
Santa Cruz da Trapa e São Cristóvão de Lafões is one of the four communes of São Pedro do Sul Municipality created by a merger during the 2013 changes. It had 1384 inhabitants in 2021 and covers 28,94 km².
António Martins-Tuválkin, 14 Apr 2025
![[Santa Cruz da Trapa commune flag (until 2013)]](../images/p/pt-spsss-st.gif)
2:3, image by António Martins-Tuválkin and Sérgio Horta, 12 Apr 2025
It is a typical Portuguese communal flag, with the coat of arms centred on a field quartered of white and green.
This flag replaced an earlier one; the only difference was that it had in the mural crown only three visible towers (commune rank). This previous flag became obsolete shortly after its creation, when the nominal settlement was promoted to town status in 2001. It is likely that depictions of the coat of arms with the trivial change, incl. on flags, were in use even before 2006. Again, the fact that the official seal includes only the contents of the shield, not the mural crown, and its text is always the designation of the commune or municipality, not any nominal setlement rank epithets, allows for its use to remain fully legal after such changes. And the seal is the only legally significant symbol — flags and arms depictions can be officialised later and changed whenever.
Source: Sérgio Horta´s webpage
António Martins-Tuválkin, 12 Apr 2025
![[Santa Cruz da Trapa commune flag (until 2006)]](../images/p/pt-spsss-st1.gif)
2:3, image by António Martins-Tuválkin and Sérgio Horta,
It is a typical Portuguese communal flag, with the coat of arms centred on a field quartered of white and green.
Source: Sérgio Horta´s webpage
António Martins-Tuválkin, 12 Apr 2025
![[Santa Cruz da Trapa commune CoA (until 2013)]](../images/p/pt-spsss-st).gif)
image by António Martins-Tuválkin andSérgio Horta,
Shield Vert a cross fleury Or voided, in chief a trident fesswise, base wavy of Argent and Azure. Mural crown Argent with four visible towers (town rank) and white scroll reading in black upper case serifed letters "SANTA CRUZ DA TRAPA".
Meaning:
The phrase "santa cruz da" means "holy cross of the" and the remaining word may mean either wolfpit, water caltrop, hauling rope, or the Trappist Order. The arms are partly canting, at least.
Source: Ralf Hartemink´s webpage
António Martins-Tuválkin, 12 Apr 2025
Current symbols published in Diário da República: II Série on 19 July 2006, former symbols published in Diário da República: III Série on 30 November 2000
António Martins-Tuválkin, 12 Apr 2025
Santa Cruz da Trapa was one of the nine communes of São Pedro do Sul Municipality affected by the 2013 changes. It had 1313 inhabitants in 2021 and covered 21,29 km².
António Martins-Tuválkin, 12 Apr 2025
![[São Cristóvão de Lafões commune flag (until 2013)]](../images/p/pt-spsss-sl.gif)
2:3, image by António Martins-Tuválkin and Sérgio Horta, 13 Apr 2025
It is a typical Portuguese communal flag, with the coat of arms centred on a plain blue field.
Source: Sérgio Horta´s webpage
António Martins-Tuválkin, 13 Apr 2025
![[São Cristóvão de Lafões commune CoA (until 2013)]](../images/p/pt-spsss-sl).gif)
image by António Martins-Tuválkin and Sérgio Horta, 13 Apr 2025
(village rank) and white scroll reading in black upper case serifed letters "S. CRISTÓVÃO DE LAFÕES".
Meaning:
Shield Argent a mound Vert issuant from the flanches and from base wavy Argent ,charged with a barrulet wavy Azure, in chief a cross Purple. Mural crown Argent with three visible towers
Source: Ralf Hartemink´s webpage
António Martins-Tuválkin, 13 Apr 2025
Published in Diário da República: III Série on 6 February 2004,
António Martins-Tuválkin, 13 Apr 2025
São Cristóvão de Lafões was one of the nine communes of São Pedro do Sul Municipality affected by the 2013 changes. It had 191 inhabitants in 2011 and covered 7,11 km².
António Martins-Tuválkin, 13 Apr 2025
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