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![]() 2:3, image by António Martins-Tuválkin and Sérgio Horta, 27 June 2025 |
![]() 2:3, image by António Martins-Tuválkin and Sérgio Horta, 27 June 2025 |
It is a typical Portuguese communal flag with the coat of arms centred on a plain yellow field.
Source: Sérgio Horta´s webpage
António Martins-Tuválkin, 27 June 2025
![]() image by António Martins-Tuválkin and Sérgio Horta, 27 June 2025 |
![]() image by António Martins-Tuválkin and Sérgio Horta, 27 June 2025 |
Shield Azure a bell Argent between two coupeaux Or issuant from base and in chief a Marian crown Or either with gems Azure (see left images above)
or gems Vert and Gules and ornaments on bell and bigger font type in 2nd line (see right images above) between two olive branches Argent fructed Sable in saltire at their proximal ends and tied with a ribbon Or.
Mural crown Argent with three visible towers (village rank) and white scroll reading
in black upper case serifed letters "UNIÃO DAS FREGUESIAS DE VALE DO SEIXO E VILA GARCIA".
Meaning:
he word "seixo" usually means "pebble" but in this context it is the proper name of a local mountain peak (692 m),
in relation to it one of the component toponyms of the name of this commune can be seen as its valley, "Vale do Seixo" — the arms being thus partly canting.
The crown is an attribute of St: Mary, who had been patronsaint of both former communes, for Vila Garcia as Our Lady of Delights and for Vale do Seixo as Immaculate Conception.
Sources: official municipal webpage
António Martins-Tuválkin, 27 June 2025
Published in Diário da República: II Série on 2 March 2020, see here
António Martins-Tuválkin, 27 June 2025
Vale do Seixo e Vila Garcia is one of the six communes of Trancoso Municipality created by the merger during the 2013 changes. It had 186 inhabitants in 2021 and covers 20,35 km².
António Martins-Tuválkin, 27 June 2025
Vale do Seixo was one of the 14 communes of Trancoso Municipality affected by the 2013 changes. It had 127 inhabitants in 2011 and covered 7,24 km². It had either no proper symbols or they are unknown.
António Martins-Tuválkin, 27 June 2025
Vila Garcia was one of the 14 communes of Trancoso Municipality affected by the 2013 changes. It had 118 inhabitants in 2011 and covered 13,29 km². It had either no proper symbols or they are unknown.
António Martins-Tuválkin, 27 June 2025
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