Montalegre Municipality (Portugal)

Concelho de Montalegre, Distrito de Vila Real

Last modified: 2024-07-20 by klaus-michael schneider
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2:3 image by António Martins-Tuválkin and Sérgio Horta,

2:3 image by António Martins-Tuválkin and Sérgio Horta,

• Montalegre Municipality
• Flag
• Coat of Arms
• Version without Coat of Arms
• Presentation of Montalegre

• Montalegre Communes
• Portugal
• Portuguese WIKIPEDIA

• Page about Montalegre at the Portuguese Municipalities’s Association website (incl. image of the arms)
  reported by António Martins-Tuválkin, 18 Nov 2001

Montalegre Municipality

Flag

It is a fairily typical Portuguese municipal flag, with the coat of arms centred on a background quartered of white and blue.
Source: Sérgio Horta´s webpage
António Martins-Tuválkin, 3 Mar 2007

Coat of Arms

Shield Gules between two oxen heads Or armed Argent on chief and a fess wavy Azure fimbriated potenty Argent a castle Argent masoned Azure with port and windows of the same with balcony turrets on its main tower. Mural crown Argent with four visible towers (town rank) and white scroll reading in black upper case letters "VILA DE MONTALEGRE" (see left flag image above) or simply "MONTALEGRE" (see right flag image above).
Meaning:
The arms include a reference to the local meat oxen variety barrosã and to the local castle; Montalegre is located on the border line with Spain, locally formed by a small river.
Sources: Hiperglobal webpage and municipal heraldry page
António Martins-Tuválkin, 3 Mar 2007 / 17 July 2024

Version without Coat of Arms

Published in Diário da República: I Série on 2 February 1984, a remakably late date, see alsohere
António Martins-Tuválkin, 3 Mar 2007

Presentation of Montalegre

Montalegre municipality had 1273 inhabitants in 2001 and consists of 35 communes covering 806,19 km². It is part of Vila Real District, traditional province and 1999 ref. adm. region Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, C.C.R. / NUTS II Norte, and NUTS III Alto Trás-os-Montes.
António Martins-Tuválkin, 3 Mar 2007

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