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Fornelos e Queijada Commune (Portugal)

Freguesia de Fornelos e Queijada, Concelho de Ponte de Lima, Distrito de Viana do Castelo

Last modified: 2014-08-08 by klaus-michael schneider
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[Fornelos commune (- 2013)] 2:3 image by Sérgio Horta, 6 June 2009
flag of former Fornelos Commune
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Former Fornelos Commune (until 2013)

It is a typical Portuguese communal flag, with the coat of arms centred on a plain red field (village rank).
António Martins-Tuválkin, 6 June 2009

Coat of arms

[Fornelos commune CoA (- 2013)] image by Sérgio Horta, 6 June 2009

The arms are Or two bunches of grapes Purpure per fess stemmed Vert and in chief a Christ Knights' cross patty Gules filled Argent between two ravens respectant Sable and on a base wavy Azure a fess wavy Argent. Mural crown Argent with three visible towers (village rank) and white scroll reading in black upper case letters "FORNELOS - PONTE DE LIMA"
Author of the arms and flag design is Carlos Alberto Mouteira Fernandes.
António Martins-Tuválkin, 6 June 2009

Flag and arms adopted and published in the official journal Diário da República: III Série in 2001.05.29
António Martins-Tuválkin, 6 June 2009

Presentation of Fornelos

Fornelos Commune was one of the communes of Ponte de Lima Municipality (q.v.); it had 1535 inhabitants in 2001 and covers 10,50 km². "Fornelos" is archaic Portuguese for "small ovens" or "small kilns" and these arms are thus not canting; in Portugal there are five communes thus named.
António Martins-Tuválkin, 6 June 2009

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