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Campelo e Ovil Commune (Portugal)

Freguesia de Campelo e Ovil, Concelho de Baião, Distrito do Porto

2:3 image by Sérgio Horta, 19 July 2009
flag of former Ovil commune

Former Ovil Commune (until 2013)
Presentation of Ovil

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Former Ovil Commune (until 2013)

It is a typical Portuguese communal flag, with the coat of arms centred on a plain blue field (village rank).
António Martins-Tuválkin, 19 July 2009

Coat of arms

image by Sérgio Horta, 19 July 2009

The arms are Argent on a disc Gules a Paschal Lamb Argent holding a cross-staff Or with gonfanon Argent charged with a cross Gules throughout, in dexter chief two corn cobs Gules leaved Vert and their stems per saltire, in sinister chief a bunch of grapes Purpure leaved Vert, in base two barrulets wavy Azure. Mural crown Argent with three visible towers (village rank) and white scroll reading in black upper case letters "OVIL - BAIÃO". The official blazon doesn't say the staff of the gonfanon is Or.
Meaning:
The Paschal lamb probably is an attribute of St. John the Baptist.
António Martins-Tuválkin, 19 July 2009

Flag and arms adopted and published in the official journal Diário da República: III Série in 2000.03.18
António Martins-Tuválkin, 19 July 2009

Presentation of Ovil

Ovil Commune was one of the pre-2013 communes of Baião Municipality (q.v.); it had 901 inhabitants in 2001 and covered 18,53 km².
António Martins-Tuválkin, 19 July 2009

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