Cadaval Municipality (Portugal)

Last modified: 2010-07-10 by antónio martins
Keywords: cadaval | coat of arms: bordure | grapes (purple) | wheat ears: 8 | wreath: wheat |
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• About the flag
• Version without the coat of arms
• Presentation of Cadaval

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• Page about the municipal flag and coat of arms of Cadaval at Sérgio Horta’s website (in Portuguese).
  reported by Jorge Candeias, 29 Feb 1999
• Page about Cadaval at the Portuguese Municipalities’s Association website (incl. image of the arms)
  reported by António Martins, 18 Nov 2001

About the flag

It is a fairly typical portuguese municipal flag, with the coat of arms centered on yellow and purple quarterly (town rank) background. Flag and arms adopted and published in the official journal Diário da República : I Série in 1936.01.25.
António Martins, 24 May 2007

The arms are Argent a bunch of grapes Purpure leaved Vert and on a bordure Sable eight ears of wheat Or set in orle and poiting clockwise. Mural crown argent with four visible towers (town rank) and white scroll reading in black upper case letters "Vila do Cadaval".
António Martins, 24 May 2007

The symbolsm of these arms seems to be trivially based on the local (importance of) agricultural produce.
António Martins, 24 May 2007

Version without the coat of arms

Plain (monocolored) portuguese subnational flags are not allowed to have armless variations: plain flags always carry the coat of arms.
Jorge Candeias, 18 Jul 1999

Presentation of Cadaval

Cadaval municipality had 13 943 inhabitants in 2001 and consists of 10 communes covering 174,17 km². It is part of Lisboa District, traditional province Estremadura, 1999 ref. adm. region Lisboa e Setúbal, pre-2002 C.C.R. / NUTS II Lisboa e Vale do Tejo, current C.C.R. / NUTS II Centro, and NUTS III Oeste.
António Martins, 24 May 2007

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