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![[São Clemente de Basto commune flag]](../images/p/pt-cbtsc.gif)
2:3, image by António Martins-Tuválkin and Sérgio Horta´, 22 Feb 2025
It is a typical Portuguese communal flag, with the coat of arms centred on a plain green field.
Sources: Sérgio Horta´s webpage
this photo
António Martins-Tuválkin, 22 Feb 2025
![[São Clemente de Basto commune CoA]](../images/p/pt-cbtsc).gif)
image by António Martins-Tuválkin and Sérgio Horta, 22 Feb 2025
Shield Or a hunting rifle Sable garnished Argent, in chief two grape bunches Purpure leafed Vert, in base a hunting bugle Gules cordoned Sable. Mural crown
Argent with three visible towers (village rank) and white scroll reading in black upper case serifed letters "BASTO - S. CLEMENTE"
Meaning:
Source: Hiperglobal webpage
António Martins-Tuválkin, 22 Feb 2025
Published in Diário da República: II Série on 27 July 2006,
António Martins-Tuválkin, 22 Feb 2025
São Clemente de Basto, or simply Basto (São Clemente), is one of the ten communes of Celorico de Basto Municipality not affected by the 2013 changes ; it had 1381 inhabitants in 2021 and covers 9,01 km².
In this communal territory there are 36 named settlements, incl. the eponymous São Clemente; among these only one has town rank status (implying the rest are villages or less, although official documents almost never positively acknowledge these under-town ranks), however that is not the mentioned namesake, but rather Gandarela (or Gandarela de Basto. The local settlement geography is diffuse, without the clumping of structures and polycentralised intrastructure networks often seen elsewhere, and any boundary demarcation under the commune level is easily altered. I usually don´t mention this kind of stuff when describing Portuguese communes (even though I find it no less fascinating than flags), but in this case it may affect the way the flag is interpreted locally and might yield variations, both official and not so — namely the scroll altered to refer to Gandarela instead,
and/or the mural crown showing four towers to match its rank.
António Martins-Tuválkin, 22 Feb 2025
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