Vouzela Municipality (Portugal)

Concelho de Vouzela, Distrito de Viseu

Last modified: 2014-10-25 by klaus-michael schneider
Keywords: vouzela | castle(golden) | hill | bar(wavy) | star(5-point) | sun | crescents(3) |
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• About the Flag
• Version without Coat of Arms
• Presentation of Vouzela

• Vouzela Communes
• Portugal

• Page about Vouzela at the Portuguese Municipalities’s Association website (incl. image of the arms)
  reported by António Martins, 18 Nov 2001
• Municipal website
  reported by Dov Gutterman, 23 Jun 1999

About the Flag

It is a fairly typical Portuguese municipal flag, with the coat of arms centred on a field quartered yellow over red.
Sérgio Horta, 11 Dec 1999

Arms:Shield Sable, a castle Or on a hill Vert charged with a bar wavy Argent - Azure - Argentr, in the upper left canton a smiling sun Or over a 5-point star Argent over a crescent moon Argent, in the upper right canton a crescent smiling Argent over a 5-point star Argent over a crescent moon Argent, 4-towered mural crown Argent (town rank) and a white scroll with the words in black capitals "VILA DE VOUZELA".
Sérgio Horta, 11 Dec 1999

Arms: On a black field, a gold castle on a green hill charged with silver - blue - silver, in the upper left canton a gold smiling sun over a silver 5-point star over a silver crescent moon in the upper right canton a silver crescent smiling moon over a silver 5-point star over a silver crescent moon, silver 4-tower mural crown (town rank) and a white scroll with the words in black capitals "VILA DE VOUZELA". Flag: flag.
Sérgio Horta, 11 Dec 1999

Flag and arms adopted and published in Diário do Governo : I Série on 24 February 1931
Sérgio Horta, 11 Dec 1999

Version without Coat of Arms

Presentation of Vouzela

Vouzela municipality had 11 917 inhabitants in 2000 (12 320 in 1990), and it is divided in 9 communes, covering 189 km². It belongs to the District of Viseu, to the traditional province of Beira Alta, and to the would be region of Beira Litoral. Trivia: this is the last portuguese municipality, sorted by alphabetic order.
António Martins-Tuválkin, 17 Oct 2003

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