Vinhais Municipality (Portugal)

Concelho de Vinhais, Distrito de Bragança

Last modified: 2014-08-23 by klaus-michael schneider
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• About the Flag
• Version without Coat of Arms
• Presentation of

• Vinhais Communes
• Portugal

• Page about Vinhais at the Portuguese Municipalities’s Association website (incl. image of the arms)
  reported by António Martins, 18 Nov 2001

About the Flag

It is a quite typical Portuguese municipal flag, with the coat of arms centred on a white and black quartered (town rank) field.
António Martins-Tuválkin, 13 Jun 2000

The coat of arms is gules, a tower argent open sable between four bunches of grapes of the same. Mural crown argent with four visible towers (town rank) and white scroll reading in black upper case letters "VILA DE VINHAIS".
Meaning:
The coat of arms is partly canting, as "vinhais" is one of many words meaning "vineyards".
António Martins-Tuválkin, 13 Jun 2000

Flag and arms were approved on 27 April 1935.
António Martins-Tuválkin, 13 Jun 2000

Version without Coat of Arms

Presentation of Vinhais

Vinhais municipality had 12 090 inhabitants in 1990, and it is divided in 26 communes, covering 710 km². It belongs to the Bragança District of and to the old province of Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro.
António Martins-Tuválkin, 13 Jun 2000

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