Vale de Cambra Municipality (Portugal)

Last modified: 2012-04-13 by antónio martins
Keywords: vale de cambra | coat of arms: cow | coat of arms (bordure: sable) | cow (yellow) | grapes: 4 (purple) | bees: 4 | rôge | grapes: 2 (yellow) | wave (blue) | calvary cross | label: 2 pendants |
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• Version without the coat of arms
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• Page about the municipal flag and coat of arms of Vale de Cambra at Sérgio Horta’s website (in Portuguese).
  reported by Jorge Candeias, 29 Feb 1999
• Page about Vale de Cambra at the Portuguese Municipalities’s Association website (incl. image of the arms)
  reported by António Martins, 18 Nov 2001

About the flag

Coat of arms

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

Commune flags

Rôge Commune

It is a fairly typical portuguese communal flag, with the coat of arms centered on a plain yellow background. The banner should have golden and green tassels and cord, and golden pole with spear finial. Flag and arms adopted and published in the official journal Diário da República : III Série in 1995.07.11.
António Martins, 23 Aug 2008

Arms detail

The arms are Vert over all on a fesslet wavy Azure fimbirated Argent a calvary (or pole cross?) Argent flanked by two bunches of gapes Or leaved of the Same and a three-pointed label Argent (no need to add «in chief», right?). Mural crown argent with three visible towers (commune rank) and white scroll reading in black upper case letters "Rôge". Original blazon:

Escudo de verde, uma faixeta ondeada de prata e azul de três tiras e brocante, cruzeiro sustido em sua base, de prata, entre dois cachos de uvas de ouro, folhados do mesmo; em chefe, um banco de pinchar de dois pés, de prata. Coroa mural de prata de três torres. Listel branco com a legenda a negro, em maiúsculas: "RÔGE".

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 Rôge

• Page about the communal flag and coat of arms of Rôge at Sérgio Horta’s website (in Portuguese).
  reported by António Martins, 23 Aug 2008
• Rôge, in the Portuguese Wikipedia
  reported by António Martins, 23 Aug 2008

Rôge Commune (also spelled "Roge") is one of the 9 communes of the Vale de Cambra Municipality; it had 1901 inhabitants in 2001 and covers 16,52 km².
António Martins, 23 Aug 2008

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