Loivos do Monte Commune (Portugal)

Freguesia de Loivos do Monte, Concelho de Baião, Distrito do Porto

Last modified: 2025-02-22 by klaus-michael schneider
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2:3, image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 16 Feb 2025

2:3, image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 16 Feb 2025

• Loivos do Monte Commune
• Flag
• Coat of Arms
• Presentation of Loivos do Monte

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Loivos do Monte Commune

Flag

It is a typical Portuguese communal flag, with the coat of arms centred on a plain red field.
Source: Sérgio Horta´s webpage
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 16 Feb 2025

Coat of Arms

Shield Or with base wavy of Azure and Argent, a cross calvary Gules, flanked by a lion´s head Azure on dexter chief and a mattock Sable in bend sinister on sinister chief (see left flag image above). Other sources display a wayside cross instead and the blade instead of the complete mattock (see right flag image above). Mural crown Argent with three visible towers (village rank) and white scroll with inscription in black capitals "LOIVOS DO MONTE".
Sources: this webpage and
Source: Sérgio Horta´s webpage
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 16 Feb 2025

Published in Diário da República: III Série on 21 April 1999
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 26 Jan 2017

Presentation of Loivos do Monte

Loivos do Monte is one of the eight communes of Baião Municipality not affected by the 2013 changes; it had 373 inhabitants in 2011 and covers 8,8 km².
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 26 Jan 2017

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