Remondes e Soutelo United Commune (Portugal)

Last modified: 2024-06-08 by klaus-michael schneider
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União das Freguesias de Remondes e Soutelo, Concelho de Mogadouro, Distrito de Bragança

• Remondes e Soutelo United Commune
• Flag
• Coat of Arms
• Presentation of Remondes e Soutelo
• Former Remondes Commune (until 2013)
• Flag
• Coat of Arms
• Presentation of Remondes
• Former Soutelo Commune (until 2013)
• Presentation of Soutelo

• Mogadouro Municipality
• Portugal

Remondes e Soutelo United Commune

Flag

It is a typical Portuguese communal flag, with the coat of arms centred on a plain yellow field.
Source: Mogadouro municipal webpage

Coat of Arms

Shield Azure a cross Argent, flanked at dexter by an embowed olive branch Or fruited Argent and at sinister by an embowed flax branch of the same with blossomes Argent seeded Gules, both on middle base point in saltire tied Gules. Mural crown Argent with three visible towers (village rank) and white scroll reading in black upper case serifed letters "UNIÃO DAS FREGUESIAS DE REMONDES E SOUTELO".
Meaning:
The cross is the wayside cross here in Remondes, a big cross made of stone, consisting of an armillary sphere topped by a cross of the Knights of the Order of Christ.
Source: Mogadouro municipal webpage
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 25 May 2024

Presentation of Remondes e Soutelo

Remondes e Soutelo is one of the seven communes of Mogadouro Municipality created by a merger during the 2013 changes. It had 285 inhabitants in 2021 and covers 36,48 km².
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 25 May 2024

Former Remondes commune (until 2013)

Flag

It is a typical Portuguese communal flag, with the coat of arms centred on a plain yellow field.
Source: Sérgio Horta´s webpage
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 25 May 2024

Coat of Arms

Shield Azure, a cross Argent, flanked by an olive branch Argent fruited Or in dexter chief and three wheat ears Or tied Gules in sinister chief. Mural crown Argent with three visible towers (village rank) and short white scroll in style of Bénard Guedes with inscription in black initials "REMONDES".
Meaning:
The cross is the local wayside cross here, a big cross made of stone, consisting of an armillary sphere topped by a cross of the Knights of the Order of Christ.
Source: Hiperglobal webpage
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 26 Mar 2016

Published in Diário da República: II Série on 13 February 1997
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 26 Mar 2016

Presentation of Remondes

Commune was one of the pre-2013 communes of Mogadouro Municipality; it had 212 inhabitants in 2011 and covered 19.9 km².
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 26 Mar 2016

Former Soutelo commune (until 2013)

Soutelo probably had no proper symbols, source beneath only displays an empty shield.
Source: Hiperglobal webpage
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 26 Mar 2016

Presentation of Soutelo

Soutelo Commune was one of the pre-2013 communes of Mogadouro Municipality; it had 129 inhabitants in 2011 and covered 16,6 km².
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 26 Mar 2016

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