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![[Ferral commune flag]](../images/p/pt-mtrfe.gif)
2:3, image by António Martins-Tuválkin and Sérgio Horta, 20 June 2024
It is a typical Portuguese communal flag, with the coat of arms centred on a plain blue field.
Source: Sérgio Horta´s webpage
António Martins-Tuválkin, 20 June 2024
![[Ferral commune CoA]](../images/p/pt-mtrfe).gif)
image by António Martins-Tuválkin and Sérgio Horta, 20 June 2024
Shield Argent a raised granary Azure with windows Or, in chief two thunder bolts Gules pointing to the abyss, issuant from flanches and from base wavy Azure charged with a barrulet wavy Argent a hump bridge Sable masoned Or. Mural crown Argent with three visible towers (village rank) and short white scroll, in Bénard Guedes style, reading in black upper case serifed letters "FERRAL".
Meaning:
The thunderbolts refer to the local hydroelectric dam and power plant of Venda Nova on the River Rabagão — which is in turn showing in the arms by means of the wavy base.
Source: Hiperglobal webpage
António Martins-Tuválkin, 20 June 2024
Published in Diário da República: III Série on 24 December 2002
António Martins-Tuválkin, 20 June 2024
Ferral is one of the 17 communes of Montalegre Municipality not affected by the 2013 changes ; it had 293 inhabitants in 2021 and covers 15,83 km².
António Martins-Tuválkin, 20 June 2024
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