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![[Salto (Montalegre) commune flag]](../images/p/pt-mtrst.gif)
2:3, image by António Martins-Tuválkin and Sérgio Horta, 29 June 2024
It is a typical Portuguese communal flag, with the coat of arms centred on a field quartered of white and blue.
Source: Sérgio Horta´s webpage
António Martins-Tuválkin, 29 June 2024
![[Salto (Montalegre) commune CoA]](../images/p/pt-mtrst).gif)
image by António Martins-Tuválkin and Sérgio Horta, 29 June 2024
Shield Azure an oak eradicated Argent leafed and fruited Or, flanked by two lozenges Or, in chief a voided cross fleury Argent and in base a barrosã cow head caboshed Proper. Mural crown Argent with four visible towers (town rank) and silver scroll reading in black upper case serifed letters "SALTO – MONTALEGRE".
Meaning:
According to Sérgio Horta the lozenges symbolise the local mining for tungsten (Borralha mines), and the cross stands for Dom Nuno Álvares Pereira, who supposedly dwelled here at some point; on the oak the number of leaves, 20, stands for the 20 villages located in this commune, and the 15 acorns symbolise the 15th of August, day of Our Lady of Sorrows, the local Catholic patron. These numbers — 20 leaves and 15 acorns — are not expressed in the official blazon.
Source: Hiperglobal webpage
António Martins-Tuválkin, 29 June 2024
Published in Diário da República: III Série on 27 May 2002
António Martins-Tuválkin, 29 June 2024
Salto is one of the 17 communes of Montalegre Municipality not affected by the 2013 changes ; it had 1263 inhabitants in 2021 and covers 77,89 km².
António Martins-Tuválkin, 29 June 2024
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