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Valpaços e Sanfins Commune (Portugal)

Freguesia de Valpaços e Sanfins, Concelho de Valpaços, Distrito de Vila Real

Former Valpaços commune (until 2013)
Presentation of Valpaços

Former Sanfins commune (until 2013)
Presentation of Sanfins

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Former Valpaços commune (until 2013)

2:3 image by Sérgio Horta, 11 Mar 2016

It is a typical Portuguese communal flag, with the coat of arms centred on a plain red field.
Source: this photo
António Martins-Tuválkin, 11 Mar 2016

Coat of arms

image by Sérgio Horta, 11 Mar 2016

Shield Argent a calvary Gules between a branch of olive tree Vert fruited Sable and a grapevine Vert fruited Purpure. Mural crown Argent with three visible towers (village rank) and white scroll reading in black upper case letters "FREGUESIA DE VALPAÇĮOS".
Source: this webpage
António Martins-Tuválkin, 11 Mar 2016

image locatd by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 11 Mar 2016

This online official document, hosted in the municipal website, shows on p.18 the pre-merger arms (with calvary Gules etc.) with a modified scroll standing in for the new communal entity. I know for sure that this is not officially accepted (CHAAP works on the assumption that the newly created/named communes need new arms/flags and none of the former should be kept unmodified), but yet here it is in "official" use.
António Martins-Tuválkin, 11 Mar 2016

Published in Diário da República: III Série on 11 November 2002
António Martins-Tuválkin, 11 Mar 2016

Presentation of Valpaços

Valpaços Commune was one of the pre-2013 communes of Valpaços Municipality; it had 4539 inhabitants in 2011 and covered 33.7 km².
António Martins-Tuválkin, 11 Mar 2016

Former Sanfins commune (until 2013)

The fact that the Valpaços communal administration is preponderant due to being in charge of the territory that includes the municipal seat town, and the fact that Sanfins was apparently lacking an officially approved coat of arms by 2013, might have led to an interesting situation (see above). this page, being usually well informed and even includes a few pre-approval and unofficial arms, displays just an empty shield with mural crown with three visible towers and inscription in scroll "Sanfins - VALPAÇOS".
António Martins-Tuválkin and Klaus-Michael Schneider, 11 Mar 2016

Presentation of Sanfins

Sanfins Commune was one of the pre-2013 communes of Valpaços Municipality; it had 213 inhabitants in 2011 and covered 5.5 km².
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 11 Mar 2016

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