Santa Iria de Azoia, São João da Talha e Bobadela Commune (Portugal)

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Freguesia de Santa Iria de Azoia, São João da Talha e Bobadela, Concelho de Loures, Distrito de Lisboa

• Former Bobadela Commune (until 2013)
• Bobadela Commune's symbols till the 1990ies
• Presentation of Bobadela

• Loures Municipality
• Portugal

Former Bobadela Commune (until 2013)

It was a typical Portuguese communal flag, with the coat of arms centred on a quartered field of yellow and red (town rank).
António Martins-Tuválkin, 24 May 2009

The arms are Purpure a jester head, i.e. a mask, Or and a cogwheel Gules fimbriated Argent in fess and in chief a Marian crown Or between two olive branches Argent fruited sable and in base wavy Argent two barrulets wavy Azure. Mural crown Argent with four visible towers (town rank) and white scroll reading in black upper case letters "BOBADELA - LOURES".
Meaning:
"Bobadela" means "small vault" (arch. dim. of "abóbada") and thus the arms are not directly canting. However, popular etymology derives the toponym from "_bobo_", "jester", and in the one of the towns oldest houses is emblazoned with an armorial stone featuring a jester head, which was included in both versions of the arms - making them partly canting. (The said house includes also the vault on which the town was originally named, curiously enough.)
António Martins-Tuválkin, 24 May 2009

Bobadela Commune's symbols till the 1990ies

It was a typical Portuguese communal flag, with the coat of arms centred on a quartered field of yellow and red (town rank).
António Martins-Tuválkin, 25 May 2009

The coat of arms was quartered of Gules and Sable, a jester head Or and Our Lady of Remedies (?) dressed Gules and crowned Sable, anolive tree eradicated Argent and leaved Vert, a cogwheel Or and over all a base wavy Azure. These previous arms, used in the late 1990ies, could not be approved by the heraldic authority (CHAAP), due to divisions of the shield (considered as marshalling) banned by the applicable law. Traces of its use are still visible in loc.
António Martins-Tuválkin, 25 May 2009

António Martins-Tuválkin, 24 May 2009

Presentation of Bobadela

Bobadela Commune was one of the pre-2013 communes of Loures Municipality (q.v.); it had 8577 inhabitants in 2001 and covered 3,22 km².
António Martins-Tuválkin, 24 May 2009

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