Maxial e Monte Redondo United Commune (Portugal)

Last modified: 2017-06-28 by klaus-michael schneider
Keywords: maxial e monte redondo | maxial | monte redondo(torres vedras) | mount | lyre | windmill(wheel) | lion(purple) | dove | vine(branch) |
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União das Freguesias de Maxial e Monte Redondo, Concelho de Torres Vedras, Distrito de Lisboa

• About the flag
• Presentation of
• Former Maxial commune (until 2013)
• Presentation of Maxial
• Former Monte Redondo commune (until 2013)
• Presentation of Monte Redondo

• Torres Vedras Municipality
• Portugal
• Portuguese WIKIPEDIA

About the Flag

It is a typical Portuguese communal flag, with the coat of arms centred on a plain white field.
Source: phone call to local government headquarters
António Martins-Tuválkin, 18 May 2017

Shield Azure, on a mount Or issuant from base a lyre Purpure, in chief two windmill wheels Or stringed of the Same and with sails Argent in fess. Mural crown Argent with three visible towers (village rank) and white scroll reading in black upper case letters "UNIÃO DAS FREGUESIAS DE MAXIAL E MONTE REDONDO".
Meaning:
This coat of arms uses elements from the two former commune arms this replaces: The lyre and windmill wheels from Maxial and the canting mount from Monte Redondo. The scroll is in the special "extra large" size for long toponyms introduced in 2013.
Source: this image
António Martins-Tuválkin, 18 May 2017

I couldn't find the official blazon of this coat of arms, and seems that these symbols were not yet published in the official journal.
António Martins-Tuválkin, 18 May 2017

Presentation of

Commune is one of the 13 communes of Torres Vedras Municipality; its former communes had 3546 inhabitants in 2011 and it covers 38.4 km².
António Martins-Tuválkin, 18 May 2017

Former Maxial commune (until 2013)

It is a typical Portuguese communal flag, with the coat of arms centred on a plain white field. The flag, plain white, acc. to Portuguese blazon is puzzelingly said to be "quartered in white".
Source: here
António Martins-Tuválkin, 12 May 2017

Shield Azure, a lyre Argent, in chief two windmill wheels Or rigged Argent ordered per fess, in base two vine branches Or fruited Argent with their stems crossed per saltire. Mural crown Argent with three visible towers (village rank) and white scroll with inscription in black upper case letters "MAXIAL".
Source: this webpage
António Martins-Tuválkin, 12 May 2017 and Klaus-Michael Schneider, 14 Apr 2017

Published in Diário da República: III Série on 29 October 2002
António Martins-Tuválkin, 12 May 2017

Presentation of Maxial

Maxial Commune was one of the pre-2013 communes of Torres Vedras Municipality; it had 2751 inhabitants in 2011 and covered 29.2 km².
Source: Portuguese WIKIPEDIA
António Martins-Tuválkin, 12 May 2017

Former Monte Redondo commune (until 2013)

It is a typical Portuguese communal flag, with the coat of arms centred on a plain purple field.
Source: here
António Martins-Tuválkin, 11 May 2017

Shield Or; two lions rampant respectant Purpure, armed and tongued Gules; issuant from base a mount Vert, in chief a radiant disc Gules, charged with the dove of the Holy Spirit Argent, armed Or. Mural crown Argent with three visible towers (village rank) and white scroll with inscription in black upper case letters "MONTE REDONDO - TORRES VEDRAS". Meaning: The words "monte redondo" mean "round hill", for a local landform; and the mount in the arms is therefore canting.
Source:
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 14 Apr 2017 and António Martins-Tuválkin, 11 May 2017

Assessment by Comissão de Heráldica da Associação dos Arqueólogos Portugueses on 23 January 2001 but never published in Diário da República. These symbols are locally known and would have probably been officialised, if the commune had not been terminated in 2013.
António Martins-Tuválkin, 11 May 2017

Presentation of Monte Redondo

Monte Redondo Commune was one of the pre-2013 communes of Torres Vedras Municipality; it had 795 inhabitants in 2011 and covered 9.2 km².
Source: Portuguese WIKIPEDIA
António Martins-Tuválkin, 11 May 2017

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