Vilarinho dos Freires Commune (Portugal) (original) (raw)

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• Vilarinho dos Freires Commune
  • Flag
  • Coat of Arms
  • Presentation of Vilarinho dos Freires See also:
• Peso da Régua Municipality
• Portugal
• Portuguese WIKIPEDIA

Vilarinho dos Freires Commune

Flag

It is a typical Portuguese communal flag, with the coat of arms centred on a plain white field.
Source: Sérgio Horta´s webpage
António Martins-Tuválkin, 29 July 2024

Coat of Arms

[.gif)](../images/p/pt-prgvf%29.gif)image by António Martins-Tuválkin and Sérgio Horta, 29 July 2024

Shield Gules a basket Or containing various fruit Proper, on chief the cross of the Order of Malta. Mural crown Argent with three visible towers (village rank) and white scroll reading in black upper case serifed letters "VILARINHO DOS FREIRES".
Meaning:
The phrase "vilarinho dos freires" means something like "hamlet of the monks"; the latter were Hospitalliers from the above mentioned order back in the 1300s, thus the arms are partly canting.
Source: Hiperglobal webpage
António Martins-Tuválkin, 29 July 2024

Published in Diário da República: III Série on 12 October 2005
António Martins-Tuválkin, 29 July 2024

Presentation of Vilarinho dos Freires

Vilarinho dos Freires is one of the four communes of Peso da Régua Municipality not affected by the 2013 changes ; it had 729 inhabitants in 2021 and covers 12,83 km².
António Martins-Tuválkin, 29 July 2024

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