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Bobadela Commune (Portugal)

Freguesia de Bobadela ,Concelho de Oliveira do Hospital, Distrito de Coimbra

Last modified: 2018-05-20 by klaus-michael schneider
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[Bobadela (Oliveira do Hospital) commune] 2:3 image by Sérgio Horta, 22 May 2009
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About the Flag

It is a fairly typical Portuguese communal flag, with the coat of arms centred on a on a quartered background of blue and yellow (town rank).
António Martins-Tuválkin, 22 May 2009

Coat of arms

[Bobadela (Oliveira do Hospital) commune CoA] image by Sérgio Horta, 22 May 2009

The arms are Or an arch Sable masoned Argent between two pales wavy Agrent fimbriated Azure and in base two olive branches Vert fruited Sable per pale at their stems. Mural crown Argent with four visible towers (town rank) and white scroll reading in black upper case letters "BOBADELA - OLIVEIRA DO HOSPITAL".
Meaning:
"Bobadela" means "small vault" (arch. dim. of "abóbada"); the arch on the arms is canting, maybe indirectly (i.e., showing the actual arch which gave name to the town).
António Martins-Tuválkin, 22 May 2009

Published in the official journal Diário da República: III Série on 29 October 2002
António Martins-Tuválkin, 22 May 2009

Presentation of Bobadela

Bobadela is one of the 16 communes of Oliveira do Hospital Municipality; it had 759 inhabitants in 2011 and covers 6.0 km².
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 15 May 2018

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