Last modified: 2014-07-26 by klaus-michael schneider
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![[Queluz commune]](../images/p/pt-sntqe.gif)
2:3 image by Sérgio Horta and António Martins-Tuválkin, 9 Apr 2010
It is a fairly untypical Portuguese communal flag, with the coat of arms centred on a quartered background of green and yellow background, usually meaning (town rank).
António Martins-Tuválkin, 9 Apr 2010
![[Queluz commune CoA]](../images/p/pt-sntqe).gif)
image by Sérgio Horta and António Martins-Tuválkin, 9 Apr 2010
The arms are Argent an almond tree Vert trunked and eradicated Sable and fruited Or between two crescents Gules their tips pointing inwards and in chief three inescutcheons Azure set in fess and each charged with five plates and in base three barrulets wavy Azure. Mural crown argent with four visible towers usually meaning (town rank) and white scroll reading in black upper case letters "FREGUESIA DE QUELUZ".
Meaning:
The tree and the crescents refer to the local Arabic heritage: Canting for etym given as "Qa Al Luz" and the two original moorish settlements of Massamá and Queluz. The three quinas stand for the Royal Family, who had built the famous Queluz Palace.
António Martins-Tuválkin, 9 Apr 2010
Flag and coat of arms adopted and published in the official journal Diário da República: III Série in 2001.03.02.
António Martins-Tuválkin, 9 Apr 2010
Queluz Commune is one of the 11 communes of Sintra Municipality (q.v.); it had 27 910 inhabitants in 2001 and covers 2,93 km². It was one of the three communes (with Massamá and Monte Abraćo) that make up the namesake city of Queluz - which has no other administrative existence, as these are simply three communes within the Sintra municipality (whose seat is officially a town). Therefore I'd expect for the crown either three visible towers, just like most other urban communes, or five for the namesake city - I cannot understand four. Since 2013 Belas commune was incorporated and united with Queluz to a "united commune". Massamá and Monte Abraćo also merged forming another "united commune".
António Martins-Tuválkin and Klaus-Michael Schneider, 25 July 2014
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