Vinhais Municipality (Portugal) (original) (raw)
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Concelho de Vinhais, Distrito de Bragança
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[![[Vinhais municipality]](http://www.crwflags.com/fotw/images/p/pt-vnh.gif)
](../images/p/pt-vnh.gif)2:3 image by António Martins-Tuválkin, 13 June 2000
- About the Flag
- Version without Coat of Arms
- Presentation of See also:
- Vinhais Communes
- Portugal External links:
- Page about Vinhais at the Portuguese Municipalities’s Association website (incl. image of the arms)
reported by António Martins, 18 Nov 2001
About the Flag
It is a quite typical Portuguese municipal flag, with the coat of arms centred on a white and black quartered (town rank) field.
António Martins-Tuválkin, 13 Jun 2000
Coat of arms
[![[Vinhais municipality CoA]](http://www.crwflags.com/fotw/images/p/pt-vnh)
The coat of arms is gules, a tower argent open sable between four bunches of grapes of the same. Mural crown argent with four visible towers (town rank) and white scroll reading in black upper case letters "VILA DE VINHAIS".
Meaning:
The coat of arms is partly canting, as "vinhais" is one of many words meaning "vineyards".
António Martins-Tuválkin, 13 Jun 2000
Flag and arms were approved on 27 April 1935.
António Martins-Tuválkin, 13 Jun 2000
Version without Coat of Arms
[![[Vinhais municipality plain]](http://www.crwflags.com/fotw/images/p/pt-vnh0.gif)
](../images/p/pt-vnh0.gif)2:3 image by António Martins-Tuválkin, Apr 2010
Presentation of Vinhais
Vinhais municipality had 12 090 inhabitants in 1990, and it is divided in 26 communes, covering 710 km². It belongs to the Bragança District of and to the old province of Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro.
António Martins-Tuválkin, 13 Jun 2000
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