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It is a typical Portuguese communal flag, with the coat of arms centred on a field quartered of yellow and blue.
Source: Sérgio Horta´s webpage
António Martins-Tuválkin, 4 Feb 2025
Shield Azure two cherry twigs Argent each with three cherries Or, in chief a three arrows Or bundled Argent, issuant from the flanks and from a base wavy Argent charged with a barrulet wavy Azure a hump bridge Argent masoned Sable. Mural crown Argent with three visible towers (village rank) and white scroll reading in black upper case serifed letters "CATIVELOS"
Meaning:
The arrows are an attribute of St. Sebastian, the local patron saint.
Source: Hiperglobal webpage
António Martins-Tuválkin, 4 Feb 2025 and Tomislav Todorović, 5 Feb 2025
Published in Diário da República: III Série on 16 November 2004
António Martins-Tuválkin, 4 Feb 2025
Cativelos is one of the ten communes of Gouveia Municipality not affected by the 2013 changes ; it had 610 inhabitants in 2021 and covers 14,11 km².
António Martins-Tuválkin, 4 Feb 2025
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