Montalegre Municipality (Portugal)

Concelho de Montalegre, Distrito de Vila Real

Last modified: 2014-08-22 by klaus-michael schneider
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• About the flag
• Version without Coat of Arms
• Presentation of Montalegre

• Montalegre Communes
• Portugal

• Page about the municipal flag and coat of arms of Montalegre at Sérgio Horta’s website (in Portuguese).
  reported by Jorge Candeias, 29 Feb 1999
• Page about Montalegre 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 fairily typical Portuguese municipal flag, with the coat of arms centred on a white and blue quarterly (town rank) background. Flag and arms adopted and published in the official journal Diário da República : III Série in 1984.02.02, a remarkably late date.
António Martins, 3 Mar 2007

The arms are Gules between two oxen heads Or armed Argent in chief and a fess wavy Azure fimbriated potenty Argent a castle Argent masoned and open and litten Or with balcony turrets on its main tower. Mural crown argent with four visible towers (town rank) and white scroll reading in black upper case letters "Vila de Montalegre".
António Martins, 3 Mar 2007

Version without Coat of Arms

Presentation of Montalegre

Montalegre municipality had 1273 inhabitants in 2001 and consists of 35 communes covering 806,19 km². It is part of Vila Real District, traditional province and 1999 ref. adm. region Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, C.C.R. / NUTS II Norte, and NUTS III Alto Trás-os-Montes. The arms include a reference to the local meat oxen variety barrosã and to the local castle; Montalegre lies in the border line with Spain, locally formed by a small river.
António Martins, 3 Mar 2007

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