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klaus-michael schneider
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![[Campelos e Outeiro da Cabeça united commune flag]](../images/p/pt-tvdco.gif)
2:3, image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 31 Mar 2025
It is a typical Portuguese communal flag, with the coat of arms centred on a field quartered of red and white.
Source: Sérgio Horta´s webpage
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 31 Mar 2025
![[Campelos e Outeiro da Cabeça united commune CoA]](../images/p/pt-tvdco).gif)
image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 31 Mar 2025
Shield Argent, issuant from a wall Gules masoned Argent a tree Vert with its trunk superimposed by a judge staff Argent in pale. Mural crown Argent with four visible towers (town rank) and white scroll reading in black upper case serifed letters "UNIÃO DAS FREGUESIAS DE CAMPELOS E OUTEIRO DA CABEÇA".
Meaning:
Tree and wall are taken from the arms of the former Outeiro da Cabeça Commune, where the wall is realised as a group of billets on orle. The staff is taken from the arms of the former Campelos Commune.
Source: Sérgio Horta´s webpage
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 31 Mar 2025
Published in Diário da República: II Série on 18 January 2023
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 31 Mar 2025
Campelos e Outeiro da Cabeça is one of the six communes of Torres Vedras Municipality created by a merger during the 2013 changes. It had 3795 inhabitants in 2021 and covers 30,0 km².
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 31 Mar 2025
![[Campelos commune (until 2013)]](../images/p/pt-tvdco-cp.gif)
2:3, image by Sérgio Horta, 30 Apr 2017
It is a typical Portuguese communal flag, with the coat of arms centred on a field quartered of red and white.
Source: Sérgio Horta´s webpage
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 30 Apr 2017
![[Campelos commune CoA]](../images/p/pt-tvdco-cp).gif)
image by Sérgio Horta, 30 Apr 2017
Shield Gules ,a judge's staff Argent in bend, accompanied in sinister chief by an ear of maize and two of wheat, all Or with stems crossed, and in base dexter by a bunch of grapes Purpure leaved Or. Mural crown Argent with four visible towers (town rank)and white scroll reading in black upper case letters "CAMPELOS"
Source: this webpage
António Martins-Tuválkin, 30 Apr 2017
Published in Diário da República: III Série on 14 October 1997
António Martins-Tuválkin, 30 Apr 2017
Campelos was one of the 13 communes of Torres Vedras Municipality affected by the 2013 changes. It had 2827 inhabitants in 2011 and covered 24,3 km².
Source: Portuguese WIKIPEDIA
António Martins-Tuválkin, 30 Apr 2017
![[Outeiro da Cabeça commune (until 2013)]](../images/p/pt-tvdco-oc.gif)
2:3, image by Sérgio Horta, 2 May 2017
It is a typical Portuguese communal flag, with the coat of arms centred on a plain red field.
Source: Sérgio Horta´s webpage
António Martins-Tuválkin, 2 May 2017
![[Outeiro da Cabeça commune CoA]](../images/p/pt-tvdco-oc).gif)
image by Sérgio Horta, 2 May 2017
Shield Argent, an eradicated tree Vert, in orle eight billets Gules. Mural crown Argent with three visible towers (village rank) and white scroll with inscription in black black upper case letters "OUTEIRO DA CABEÇA".
Meaning:
"Outeiro da Cabeça" (literally: "hillock of the head") refers to a local headland, which is not expressed in the arms.
Source: this webpage
António Martins-Tuválkin, 2 May 2017
Published in Diário da República: III Série on 19 September 1996
António Martins-Tuválkin, 2 May 2017
Outeiro da Cabeça was one of the 13 communes of Torres Vedras Municipality affected by the 2013 changes. It had 840 inhabitants in 2011 and covered 5,7 km².
António Martins-Tuválkin, 2 May 2017
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