Last modified: 2024-07-13 by 
klaus-michael schneider
Keywords: viade de baixo | fervidelas | escallop | yoke |
Links: FOTW homepage |
search |
disclaimer and copyright |
write us |
mirrors
![[Viade de Baixo e Fervidelas united commune]](../images/p/pt-mtrvf.gif)
2:3, image by António Martins-Tuválkin and Sérgio Horta, 8 July 2024
It is a typical Portuguese communal flag, with the coat of arms centred on a plain white field.
Source: Sérgio Horta´s webpage
António Martins-Tuválkin, 8 July 2024
![[Viade de Baixo e Fervidelas united commune CoA]](../images/p/pt-mtrvf).gif)
image by António Martins-Tuválkin and Sérgio Horta, 8 July 2024
Shield Vert with base wavy Argent two barrulets wavy Azure, a pair of peels Argent in saltire and a boulder Argent emphasized Sable all ordered per fess, in chief a yoke Or. Mural crown Argent with three visible towers (village rank) and white scroll reading in black upper case serifed letters "UNIÃO DAS FREGUESIAS DE VIADE DE BAIXO E FERVIDELAS" set in two lines.
Meaning:
This Portuguese communal coat of arms, as often happens, combines elements from the coats of arms (or projects thereof) of the nominally constituent former communes.
Source: Sérgio Horta´s webpage
António Martins-Tuválkin, 8 July 2024
Published in Diário da República: II Série on 10 October 2016, see here
António Martins-Tuválkin, 8 July 2024
Viade de Baixo e Fervidelas is one of the five communes of Montalegre Municipality created by a merger during the 2013 changes. It had 695 inhabitants in 2021 and covers 48,31 km².
António Martins-Tuválkin, 8 July 2024
![[Viade de Baixo commune flag (until 2013)]](../images/p/pt-mtrvf-vb.gif)
2:3, image by António Martins-Tuválkin and Sérgio Horta, 9 July 2024
It is a typical Portuguese communal flag, with the coat of arms centred on a plain white field.
Source: Sérgio Horta´s webpage
António Martins-Tuválkin, 9 July 2024
![[Viade de Baixo commune CoA (until 2013)]](../images/p/pt-mtrvf-vb).gif)
image by António Martins-Tuválkin and Sérgio Horta,
Shield Vert with base wavy Argent charged with a barrulet wavy Azure, two peels Or in saltire, in chief a yoke Argent garnished Gules. Mural crown Argent with three visible towers (village rank) and white scroll reading in black upper case serifed letters "VIADE DE BAIXO - MONTALEGRE".
Meaning:
Source: Hiperglobal webpage
António Martins-Tuválkin, 9 July 2024
Published in Diário da República: III Série on 5 January 2005
António Martins-Tuválkin, 9 July 2024
Viade de Baixo was one of the 18 communes of Montalegre Municipality affected by the 2013 changes. It had 675 inhabitants in 2011 and covered 42,00 km².
António Martins-Tuválkin, 9 July 2024
We can presume it was a typical Portuguese communal flag, with the coat
of arms centered on a currently unknown background.
Source: Sérgio Horta´s webpage
António Martins-Tuválkin, 9 July 2024
![[Fervidelas commune CoA (until 2013)]](../images/p/pt-mtrvf-fv).gif)
image by António Martins-Tuválkin, 9 July 2024
Shield Azure a weathered rocky outcrop (blazoned as a boulder, penedo — and wrongly so i.m.o.) Argent garnished Sable issuant from base flanked by two windmill wheels Argent cordoned Or, in chief an escallop Or. Mural crown Argent with three visible towers (village rank) and white scroll reading in black upper case serifed letters "FERVIDELAS".
Meaning:
The escallop is an attribute of St. James the Elder, the local patron saint.
Source: Hiperglobal webpage
António Martins-Tuválkin, 9 July 2024
This commune didn´t have its symbols fully approved yet when it was disestablished. Flag and arms were established by the CHAAP on 25 July 2007
António Martins-Tuválkin, 9 July 2024
Fervidelas was one of the 18 communes of Montalegre Municipality affected by the 2013 changes. It had 87 inhabitants in 2021 and covered 5,77 km².
António Martins-Tuválkin, 9 July 2024
back to Montalegre Communes click here