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Campelo e Ovil United Commune (Portugal)

Last modified: 2017-02-11 by klaus-michael schneider
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União das Freguesias de Campelo e Ovil, Concelho de Baião, Distrito do Porto

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Former Campelo commune (until 2013)

[Campelo (Baião) commune (until 2013)] 2:3 image by Sérgio Horta, 24 Jan 2017

It is a typical Portuguese communal flag, with the coat of arms centred on a plain blue field.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 24 Jan 2017

Coat of arms

Shield Or with base wavy of Azure and Argent, a granary Azure, supported by two goats forcene Sable. Mural crown Argent with three visible towers (village rank) and white scroll with inscription in black capitals "CAMPELO - BAIÃO".
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 24 Jan 2017

Published in Diário da República: III Série on 25 August 2000
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 24 Jan 2017

Presentation of Campelo

Campelo Commune was one of the pre-2013 communes of Baião Municipality; it had 3237 inhabitants in 2011 and covered 15.1 km².
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 24 Jan 2017

Former Ovil Commune (until 2013)

[Ovil commune (- 2013)] 2:3 image by Sérgio Horta, 19 July 2009

It is a typical Portuguese communal flag, with the coat of arms centred on a plain blue field (village rank).
António Martins-Tuválkin, 19 July 2009

Coat of arms

[Ovil commune CoA (- 2013)] image by Sérgio Horta, 19 July 2009

The arms are Argent on a disc Gules a Paschal Lamb Argent holding a cross-staff Or with gonfanon Argent charged with a cross Gules throughout, in dexter chief two corn cobs Gules leaved Vert and their stems per saltire, in sinister chief a bunch of grapes Purpure leaved Vert, in base two barrulets wavy Azure. Mural crown Argent with three visible towers (village rank) and white scroll reading in black upper case letters "OVIL - BAIÃO". The official blazon doesn't say the staff of the gonfanon is Or.
Meaning:
The Paschal lamb probably is an attribute of St. John the Baptist.
António Martins-Tuválkin, 19 July 2009

Flag and arms adopted and published in the official journal Diário da República: III Série in 2000.03.18
António Martins-Tuválkin, 19 July 2009

Presentation of Ovil

Ovil Commune was one of the pre-2013 communes of Baião Municipality; it had 701 inhabitants in 2011 and covered 16.7 km².
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 24 Jan 2017

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