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Albufeira e Olhos de Água Commune (Portugal)

Freguesia de Albufeira e Olhos de Água, Concelho de Albufeira, Distrito de Faro

Last modified: 2015-06-02 by klaus-michael schneider
Keywords: albufeira(freguesia) | olhos de agua | base(wavy) | sun(pendulant) | tower | fountains(3) | pine(branch) | grapevine |
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Former Albufeira commune (until 2013)

[Albufeira commune (until 2013)] 2:3 image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 14 Apr 2015

It is a typical Portuguese communal flag, with the coat of arms centred on a plain yellow field.
António Martins-Tuválkin, 21 Nov 2010

Coat of arms

[Albufeira commune CoA (until 2013)] image by Sérgio Horta,

The arms are Gules a tower Argent masoned Sable with port and windows over a base wavy of Argent and Vert, pendulant from chief a demi sun-in-splendour Or with face. Mural crown Argent with three visible towers (commune rank) and white scroll reading in black upper case letters "ALBUFEIRA".
(editorial note: the inscription is remarkable insofar, as usually for communes with a synonym municipality the inscription begins with "FREGUESIA DE ..." in order to distinct both entities)
António Martins-Tuválkin, Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, Chris Southworth, and James Dignan, 21 - 23 Nov 2010

Published in Diário da República: III Série on 12 April 1996
António Martins-Tuválkin, 21 Nov 2010

Presentation of Albufeira

Albufeira Commune was one of the pre-2013 communes of the synonym Municipality (q.v.); it had 16 237 inhabitants in 2001 and covered 26.49 km².
António Martins-Tuválkin, 21 Nov 2010

Former Olhos de Água commune (until 2013)

[Olhos de Água commune (until 2013)] 2:3 image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 14 Apr 2015

It is a typical Portuguese communal flag, with the coat of arms centred on a plain yellow field.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 14 Apr 2015

Coat of arms

[Olhos de Água commune CoA (until 2013)] image by Sérgio Horta,

Shield Azure, a rectangular, embattled tower Or masoned Sable with port and windows Gules flanked at dexter by a branch of pine Argent fruited Or and at sinister by a grapevine Or leaved Argent, in base three heraldic fountains ordered 2:1. Mural crown Argent with three visible towers (village rank) and white scroll with inscription in black initials: "OLHOS DE ÁGUA - ALBUFEIRA".
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 14 Apr 2015

Published in Diário da República: III Série on 2 November 2004
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 14 Apr 2015

Presentation of Olhos de Água

Olhos de Água Commune was one of the pre-2013 communes of Albufeira Municipality (q.v.); it had 3309 inhabitants in 2011 and covered 14.5 km².
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 14 Apr 2015

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