This page is part of © FOTW Flags Of The World website

Talhinhas e Bagueixe United Commune (Portugal)

Last modified: 2016-05-14 by klaus-michael schneider
Keywords: talhinhas | bagueixe | billet | rose(red) | cow | needle | lyre | hand plane |
Links: FOTW homepage | search | disclaimer and copyright | write us | mirrors


União das Freguesias de Talhinhas e Bagueixe, Concelho de Macedo de Cavaleiros, Distrito de Bragança

See also:

Former Talhinhas commune (until 2013)

[Talhinhas commune (until 2013)] 2:3 image by Sérgio Horta, 20 Apr 2016

It is a typical Portuguese communal flag, with the coat of arms centred on a plain blue field.
Source: this photo
António Martins-Tuválkin, 20 Apr 2016

Coat of arms

[Talhinhas commune CoA (until 2013)] image by Sérgio Horta, 20 Apr 2016

Argent two billets Azure set in fess, in chief a rose Gules barbed Vert and seeded Or, in base a milking cow Proper with eyes and hooves Sable. Mural crown Argent with three visible towers and white scroll reading in black upper case letters "TALHINHAS"
Sources: this webpage and communal heraldry page, the latter displaying the so-called Bénard Guedes scroll type
António Martins-Tuválkin, 20 Apr 2016

Published in Diário da República: III Série on 4 October 2005
António Martins-Tuválkin, 20 Apr 2016

Presentation of Talhinhas

Talhinhas Commune was one of the pre-2013 communes of Macedo de Cavaleiros Municipality; it had 173 inhabitants in 2011 and covered 25.3 km².

  • Portuguese WIKIPEDIA

    • António Martins-Tuválkin, 20 Apr 2016

    Former Bagueixe commune (until 2013)

    [Bagueixe commune (until 2013)] 2:3 image by Sérgio Horta, 25 Mar 2016

    It is a typical Portuguese communal flag, with the coat of arms centred on a plain yellow field.
    António Martins-Tuválkin, 25 Mar 2016

    Coat of arms

    [Bagueixe commune CoA (until 2013)] image by Sérgio Horta, 25 Mar 2016

    Shield Vert two needles Or threaded Argent per saltire, in chief a lyre Or, in base a hand plane (the woodworking tool, not a paper airplane!) Or. Mural crown Argent with three visible towers and white scroll reading in black upper case letters "BAGUEIXE". The shape of the scroll is not the most usual but the one favoured by heraldrist José Bénard Guedes
    Source: this webpage
    António Martins-Tuválkin, 25 Mar 2016

    Flag and arms promulgated by the communal government Edict 410/2011 on 5 April 2011 and published in Diário da República: II Série on 3 May 2011
    Source: Diário da República
    António Martins-Tuválkin, 25 Mar 2016

    Presentation of Bagueixe

    Bagueixe Commune was one of the pre-2013 communes of Macedo de Cavaleiros Municipality; it had 156 inhabitants in 2011 and covered 9.9 km².

  • Portuguese WIKIPEDIA

    • António Martins-Tuválkin, 25 Mar 2016

    back to Macedo de Cavaleiros Communes click here