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![[Sequeiros e Gradiz united commune flag]](../images/p/pt-agbsg.gif) 2:3, image by Valentin Poposki and Klaus-Michael Schneider, 11 Feb 2022
2:3, image by Valentin Poposki and Klaus-Michael Schneider, 11 Feb 2022 
It is a typical Portuguese communal flag, with the coat of arms centred on a plain white field.
Source: Sergio Horta´s webpage
Valentin Poposki and Klaus-Michael Schneider, 11 Feb 2022    
![[Sequeiros e Gradiz united commune CoA ]](../images/p/pt-agbsg).gif) image by Valentin Poposki, 11 Feb 2022
image by Valentin Poposki, 11 Feb 2022 
Shield Gules an eradicated tree Argent flanked by a needle with thread at dexter and a bread paddle at sinister, both Ot and in pale, issuant from base a mount Argent charged with three lozenges Azure ordered 1:2. Mural crown Argent with three visible towers (village rank) and white scroll reading in black upper case letters "UNIÂO DAS FREGUESIAS DE SEQUEIROS E GRADIZ". 
Meaning:
Paddle and needle are representing the former Sequeiros Commune, the others the former Gradiz Commune.
Source: Sergio Horta´s webpage
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 9 May 2024 
Published in Diário da República: II Série on 11 February 2016 
Valentin Poposki, 11 Feb 2022 
Sequeiros e Gradiz is one of the three communes of Aguiar da Beira Municipality created by a merger during the 2013 changes. It had 345 inhabitants in 2021 and
covered 23,92 km².
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 9 May 2024
![[Sequeiros commune flag until 2013)]](../images/p/pt-agbsg-sq.gif) 2:3, image by Valentin Poposki and Klaus-Michael Schneider, 11 Feb 2022
2:3, image by Valentin Poposki and Klaus-Michael Schneider, 11 Feb 2022 
It is a typical Portuguese communal flag, with the coat of arms centred on a plain white field.
Source: Sergio Horta´s webpage
   
![[Sequeiros commune CoA (until 2013)]](../images/p/pt-agbsg-sq).gif) image by Valentin Poposki,
image by Valentin Poposki, 
Shield Gules two bread paddles Or in saltire flanked by two needles Argent in pale with threads Or, in chief three arrowa Or in fan tied Argent. Mural crown Argent with three visible towers (village rank) and white scroll reading in black upper case letters "SEQWUEIROS - AGUIAR DA BEIRA". 
Meaning:
The arrows are an attribute of St. Sebastian, the local patron saint. The needles are alluding to local tailoring, the paddles to the local production of bread.
Source: Sergio Horta´s webpage
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 9 May 2024
Published in Diário da República: II Série on 29 April 2005 
 
Sequeiros was one of the six communes of Aguiar da Beira Municipality affected by the 2013 changes. It had 262 inhabitants in 2021 and covered 12,92 km².
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 9 May 2024 
![[Gradiz commune (until 2013)]](../images/p/pt-agbsg-gz.gif) 2:3, image by Sérgio Horta, 2 July 2010
2:3, image by Sérgio Horta, 2 July 2010
It is a typical Portuguese communal flag, with the coat of arms centred on a plain yellow field.
Source: Sergio Horta´s webpage
António Martins-Tuválkin, 2 July 2010
![[Gradiz commune CoA (until 2013)]](../images/p/pt-agbsg-gz).gif) image by Valentin Poposki, 11 Feb 2022
image by Valentin Poposki, 11 Feb 2022 
Shield Azure three trees eradicated Or in fess, in chief three plates, in base a mound issuant Argent. Mural crown Argent with three visible towers (village rank) and white scroll reading in black upper case letters  "GRADIZ".
Source: Hiperglobal webpage
António Martins-Tuválkin, 2 July 2010 
Published in Diário da República: III Série on 1 March 2002 
António Martins-Tuválkin, 2 July 2010 
Gradiz Commune was one of the pre-2013 communes of Aguiar da Beira Municipality  affected by the 2013 changes. It had 159 inhabitants in 2011 and covered 13,71 km².
António Martins-Tuválkin, 2 July 2010
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