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![[Tourém commune flag]](../images/p/pt-mtrto.gif)
2:3, image by António Martins-Tuválkin and Sérgio Horta, 7 July 2024
It is a typical Portuguese communal flag, with the coat of arms centred on a plain yellow field.
Source: Sérgio Horta´s webpage
António Martins-Tuválkin, 7 July 2024
![[Tourém commune CoA]](../images/p/pt-mtrto).gif)
image by António Martins-Tuválkin and Sérgio Horta, 7 July 2024
Shield Gules a castle Or masoned Sable with port and windows Gules, issuant from flanches from base wavy Argent, charged with a barrulet wavy Azure, a four-arch bridge Argent masoned Sable. Mural crown Argent with three visible towers (village rank) and white scroll reading in black upper case serifed letters "TOURÉM".
Meaning:
The communal territory just northward off the average east-west border line between Spain and Portugal, orthogonally to the slope and being a sort of Caprivi strip connecting to the Portuguese mainland the nominal village and an odd transfluvial area on the north bank of River Salas, linked with a historical bridge. The arms, with the castle standing for Castile (wrongly so, as surrounding area is part of Leon/Galicia), refer to this peculiar geography.
Source: Hiperglobal webpage
António Martins-Tuválkin, 7 July 2024
Published in Diário da República: II Série on 8 March 2016, see here
António Martins-Tuválkin, 7 July 2024
Tourém is one of the 17 communes of Montalegre Municipality not affected by the 2013 changes ; it had 110 inhabitants in 2021 and covers 16,61 km².
António Martins-Tuválkin, 7 July 2024
back to Montalegre Communes click here