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klaus-michael schneider
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![[Vila Boa de Quires e Maureles commune flag ]](../images/p/pt-mcnvm.gif)
2:3, image by Klaus-Michael Schneider,
It is a typical Portuguese communal flag, with the coat of arms centred on a plain field quartered of red and yellow.
Banner: golden and red fringes, tassels and cord
Source: Sérgio Horta´s webpage
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 8 Nov 2024
Shield chequered of 15 of Or and Azure, over all above a cross patty Gules, charged with a Greek cross Argent and below a watermill wheel Gules. Mural crown Argent with four visible towers (village rank) and white scroll reading in black upper case serifed letters "VILA BOA DE QUIRES E MAURELES".
Meaning:
The symbols are basically those of former Vila Boa de Quires Commune with an additional mill wheel as representation of former Maureles.
Please note, we here have a checquered shield, explicitly mentioned within blazon, although shield partitions are not allowed by law (and this pattern is at least implicitly forbidden). Which had been already the same in the arms of the former Vila Boa de Quires Commune.
Source: Sérgio Horta´s webpage
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 8 Nov 2024
Published in Diário da República: II Série on 27 November 2015
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 8 Nov 2024
Vila Boa de Quires e Maureles is one of the ten communes of Marco de Canavezes Municipality created by a merger during the 2013 changes. It had 3460 inhabitants in 2021 and covers 19,33 km².
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 8 Nov 2024
![[Vila Boa de Quires commune (until 2013)]](../images/p/pt-mcnvm-vq.gif)
2:3, image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 9 July 2016
It is a typical Portuguese communal flag, with the coat of arms centred on a field quartered of red and yellow.
Source: municipal webpage
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 9 July 2016
Shield chequered of 15 of Or and Azure, over all a cross patty Gules, charged with a Greek cross Argent. Mural crown Argent with four visible towers (town rank) and white scroll with inscription in black capitals "VILA BOA DE QUIRES".
Meaning:
The cross is alluding to the Order of the Knights of Christ.
Source: Sérgio Horta´s webpage
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 9 July 2016
Published in Diário da República: II Série on 22 February 2011
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 9 July 2016
Vila Boa de Quires Commune was one of the pre-2013 communes of Marco de Canavezes Municipality; it had 3394 inhabitants in 2011 and covered 16,1 km².
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 9 July 2016
![[Maureles commune flag (until 2013)]](../images/p/pt-mcnvm-mr.gif)
image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 5 Nov 2024
It is a typical Portuguese communal flag, with the coat of arms centred on a plain white field.
Source: Sérgio Horta´s webpage
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 5 Nov 2024
Shield Azure, two watermill wheels Argent ordered per fess, in chief a Marian crown Or, in base a grapevine Or leafed Argent. Mural crown Argent with three visible towers (village rank) and white scroll with inscription in black capitals "MAURELES".
Meaning:
The crown is an attribute of St. Mary,the local patron saint.
Sources: Ralf Hartemink's webpage and this webpage
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 9 July 2016
Published in Diário da República: III Série on 19 March 2009
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 9 July 2016
Maureles Commune was one of the pre-2013 communes of Marco de Canavezes Municipality; it had 460 inhabitants in 2011 and covered 3,2 km².
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 9 July 2016
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