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![[Tronco commune flag]](../images/p/pt-chvtc.gif)
2:3, image by António Martins-Tuválkin, 5 May 2024
It is a typical Portuguese communal flag, with the coat of arms centred on a plain purple field.
Source: Sérgio Horta´s webpage
António Martins-Tuválkin, 5 May 2024
![[Tronco commune CoA]](../images/p/pt-chvtc).gif)
image by Sérgio Horta, 5 May 2024
Shield Or a log raguly Vert in fess, flanked in chief by an escallop Purpure and in base by a hoe blade Azure. Mural crown Argent with three visible towers(village rank) and white scroll of short toponym style reading in black upper case serifed letters "TRONCO".
Meaning:
The word "tronco" means "trunk", both as in "log" and as in "bole", and this word is sometimes also used to name a major tree branch, too, especially after felling. The arms are therefore partly canting. The escallop is an attribute of St. James the Elder, the local patron saints.
Source: Hiperglobal webpage
António Martins-Tuválkin, 5 May 2024
Published in Diário da República: II Série on 29 January 2009, see here
António Martins-Tuválkin, 5 May 2024
Tronco was one of the 30 communes of Chaves Municipality not affected by the 2013 changes; it had 202 inhabitants in 2021 and covers 8,54 km².
António Martins-Tuválkin, 5 May 2024
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