Vila Pouca de Aguiar Municipality (Portugal)

Concelho de Vila Pouca de Aguiar, Distrito de Vila Real

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• Vila Pouca de Aguiar Municipality
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• Presentation of Vila Pouca de Aguiar

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• Page about Vila Pouca de Aguiar at the Portuguese Municipalities’s Association website (incl. image of the arms)
  reported by António Martins-Tuválkin, 18 Nov 2001

Flag

It is a fairly typical Portuguese municipal flag, with the coat of arms centred on a field quartered of green and black.
Source: Sérgio Horta´s webpage
António Martins-Tuválkin, 12 Apr 2007

Coat of Arms

The arms are Argent above a mound of two coupeaux Sable charged with a bar wavy Azure fimbriated Argent, a bundle of three wheat ears Vert tied Gules between two bees Or and in chief Azure an eagle Or. Mural crown Argent with four visible towers (town rank) and white scroll reading in black upper case letters "VILA POUCA DE AGUIAR".
Meaning:
Vila Pouca de Aguiar includes in its name the surname of a major Portuguese armigerous line, the Aguiar lineage (related to the Spanish Aguilar), whose arms depict a canting eagle. This is shown in the chief of the the municipal arms.
António Martins-Tuválkin, 12 Apr 2007

Published in Diário do Governo : I Série on 8 October 1940
António Martins-Tuválkin, 12 Apr 2007

Presentation of Vila Pouca de Aguiar

Vila Pouca de Aguiar municipality had 11 813 inhabitants in 2021 and consists of 14 communes covering 432,68 km². It is part of Vila Real District, traditional province and 1999 ref. adm. region Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, current C.C.R. / NUTS II Norte, and NUTS III Alto Trás-os-Montes.
António Martins-Tuválkin, 23 Oct 2024

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