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klaus-michael schneider
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![[Santa Maria de Emeres commune flag]](../images/p/pt-vlpsm.gif)
2:3, image by António Martins-Tuválkin, 16 Mar 2016
It is an atypical Portuguese communal flag, with the coat of arms centred on a field parted per bend into light blue over white.
The diagonal division of the flag background is interesting in that it may be a naive deduction - logical, even if wrong -, from observation of other flags: If cities have flags divided in 8 fields, and towns have flags divided in 4 fields, then villages should have only two fields in their flags, right?… The actual legal practice is, as we know, less logical and less easy to deduce and apply. (The peculiarity of the arms is less interesting, being merely yet another example of "folk" heraldry.)
António Martins-Tuválkin, 16 Mar 2016
![[Santa Maria de Emeres monocolour]](../images/p/pt-vlpsm2.gif)
2:3, image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 30 Mar 2025, based on image by António Martins-Tuválkin
Coat of arms and scroll are the same as on flag described above but the filed is simply green.
Source: this webpage
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 30 Mar 2025
The arms are of an unusual design: shield parted per fess, above Azure (celestial blue) a mountain Proper, beneath parted per pale: Argent a bunch of grapes Argent leaved Vert at dexter, Argent an olive twig Vert fruited of the Same at sinister, over all a bar parted per pale into Vert and Gules. Mural crown Argent with three visible towers (village rank) and white scroll "FREG.S.ta MARIA D´ ÉMERES ".
This design is in local use, sponsored by the communal government.
Source: photo
António Martins-Tuválkin, 16 Mar 2016
But both, the flag and the arms, are in disagreement with the applicable law and have no chance of being approved by the Comissão de Heráldica da Associação dos Arqueólogos Portugueses (CHAAP) and made official.
António Martins-Tuválkin, 16 Mar 2016
Santa Maria de Emeres (Santa Maria d´ Émeres) is one of the 19 communes of Municipality not affected by the 2013 changes; it had 406 inhabitants in 2011 and covers 16,7 km².
António Martins-Tuválkin, 16 Mar 2016
back to Valpaços Communes click here
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