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![[Montalegre e Padroso united commune flag]](../images/p/pt-mtrmp.gif)
2:3, image by António Martins-Tuválkin and Sérgio Horta, 24 June 2024
It is a typical Portuguese communal flag, with the coat of arms centred on a plain green field.
Source: Sérgio Horta´s webpage
António Martins-Tuválkin, 24 June 2024
![[Montalegre e Padroso united commune CoA]](../images/p/pt-mtrmp).gif)
image by António Martins-Tuválkin and Sérgio Horta, 24 June 2024
Shield Or two bulls statant respectant Gules armed Sable of the barrosã breed, in base a potato plant eradicated Vert flowered Argent and fruited Gules. Mural crown Argent with three visible towers (village rank) and white scroll reading in black upper case serifed letters "UNIÃO DAS FREGUESIAS DE MONTALEGRE E PADROSO".
Source: Sérgio Horta´s webpage
António Martins-Tuválkin, 24 June 2024
Published in Diário da República: II Série on 3 September 2014, see here
António Martins-Tuválkin, 24 June 2024
Montalegre e Padroso is one of the five communes in Montalegre Municipality created anew by the 2013 changes, resulting from the merger of Padroso commune into Montalegre commune, which was the nominal commune, whose territory encompassed the built up settlement area of Montalegre town, the municipal seat and namesake. Padroso contained also a single settlement, the namesake village, tenfold smaller than Montalegre. The merger created a new commune with two settlements in its confines. The new commune had a population of 1772 inhabitants as of 2021 and covers
32,15 km².
Just like in the case of Vimioso and others, in this case the commune based on much larger settlement had already its symbols approved when the mergers occurred in 2012-2013, but the less important commune(s) disestablished to join it had not. Here again, it was decided to keep the previous armourial arrangement itself unchanged, as well as the flag background pattern, modifying only the scroll text to accomodate the newdesignation. In some of these cases, there are also changes in the blazon text, but not in this case. Ditto for other changes concerning the number of visible towers in the mural coronet and/or the shape of the scroll.
António Martins-Tuválkin, 24 June 2024
![[Montalegre commune flag (until 2013)]](../images/p/pt-mtrmp-ma.gif)
2:3, image by António Martins-Tuválkin and Sérgio Horta, 24 June 2024
It is a typical Portuguese communal flag, with the coat of arms centred on a plain green field. It differs from that one of the united commune only by inscription of the scroll.
Source: Sérgio Horta´s webpage
António Martins-Tuválkin, 24 June 2024
It is the same coat of arms like that one of the united commune. the only difference is the inscription of the scroll, reading "FREGUESIA DE MONTALEGRE".
Source: Hiperglobal webpage
António Martins-Tuválkin, 24 June 2024
Published in Diário da República: II Série on 30 April 2003,
António Martins-Tuválkin, 24 June 2024
was one of the 18 communes of Montalegre Municipality affected by the 2013 changes. It had 1816 inhabitants in 2011 and covered 103,3 km².
António Martins-Tuválkin, 24 June 2024
Padroso was one of the 18 communes of Montalegre Municipality affected by the 2013 changes. It had 107 inhabitants in 2011 and covered 9,03 km². The commune had no proper symbols. Source displays just an empty shield.
Source: Hiperglobal webpage
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 24 June 2024
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