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klaus-michael schneider
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![[Louredo e Fornelos united commune flag]](../images/p/pt-smplf.gif)
2:3, image by António Martins-Tuválkin and Sérgio Horta, 25 Aug 2024
It is a typical Portuguese communal flag, with the coat of arms centred on a plain purple field.
Source: Sérgio Horta´s webpage
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 13 Aug 2024 and António Martins-Tuválkin, 25 Aug 2024
![[Louredo e Fornelos united commune flag]](../images/p/pt-smplf).gif)
image by António Martins-Tuválkin and Sérgio Horta, 25 Aug 2024
Shield Or an oven Sable masoned Argent and flamant Purpure surrounded by a laurel wreath Vert, issuant from base a throughout bridge Sable masoned Argent. Mural crown Argent with three visible towers (village rank) and white scroll reading in black upper case serifed letters "UNIÃO DAS FREGUESIAS DE LOUREDO E FORNELOS".
Meaning:
The bridge on these arms comes from the arms of the former Louredo Commune while the (canting) oven comes from those of Fornelos Commune; the laurels are an additional canting element, for "louredo" means "bay laurel grove".
Source: Sérgio Horta´s webpage
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 13 Aug 2024 and António Martins-Tuválkin, 25 Aug 2024
Published in Diário da República: II Série on 14 May 2015, see here
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 13 Aug 2024
Louredo e Fornelos is one of the two communes of Santa Marta de Penaguião Municipality created by a merger during the 2013 changes. It had 520 inhabitants in 2021 and covers 12,17 km².
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 13 Aug 2024
![[Louredo (Santa Marta de Penaguião) commune flag (until 2013)]](../images/p/pt-smplf-ld.gif)
2:3, image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 13 Aug 2024
It is a typical Portuguese communal flag, with the coat of arms centred on a plain purple field.
Source: Sérgio Horta´s webpage
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 13 Aug 2024
![[Louredo commune flag (- 20139)]](../images/p/pt-smplf-ld).gif)
image by António Martins-Tuválkin and Sérgio Horta, 25 Aug 2024
Shield Or a mount issuant Vert with snow cap Argent, on base superimposed by a throughout bridge Argent masoned Sable, on either chief corner a jug Gules pierced Or, used for collecting chestnuts. Mural crown Argent with three visible towers (village rank) and white scroll reading in black upper case serifed letters "LOUREDO – SANTA MARTA DE PENAGUIÃO".
Source: Hiperglobal webpage
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 13 Aug 2024
Published in Diário da República: II Série on 18 July 2007, see here
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 13 Aug 2024
Louredo was one of the five communes of Santa Marta de Penaguião Municipality affected by the 2013 changes. It had 516 inhabitants in 2001 and covered 7,13 km².
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 13 Aug 2024
![[Fornelos (Santa Marta de Penaguião) commune flag (until 2013)]](../images/p/pt-smplf-fo.gif)
2:3, image by António Martins-Tuválkin and Sérgio Horta, 24 Aug 2024
It is a typical Portuguese communal flag, with the coat of arms centred on a plain purple field.
Source: Sérgio Horta´s webpage
António Martins-Tuválkin, 9 Aug 2010
![[Fornelos commune CoA (until 2013)]](../images/p/pt-smplf-fo).gif)
image by António Martins-Tuválkin and Sérgio Horta, 24 Aug 2024
The arms are Or a bundle of five arrows pointing upwards Purpure tied Vert and two ovens Sable garnished Argent and heated Gules all set in chevron. Mural crown Argent with three visible towers (village rank) and white scroll reading in black upper case letters "FORNELOS - SANTA MARTA DE PENAGUIÃO"
Meaning:
"Fornelo" means "small oven", one of five communes thus named in Portugal and the patron of the local conterminous Catholic parish is St. Sebastian, whose attributes are arrows, therefore canting arms.
António Martins-Tuválkin, 9 Aug 2010
Published in Diário da República: III Série on 27 May 2003,
António Martins-Tuválkin, 9 Aug 2010
Fornelos was one of the five communes of Santa Marta de Penaguião Municipality affected by the 2013 changes. It had 319 inhabitants in 2001 and covered 5,03 km².
António Martins-Tuválkin, 9 Aug 2010
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