![[Alvarelhos (Trofa) commune (until 2013)]](../images/p/pt-trfag-av.gif)
Last modified: 2016-01-19 by klaus-michael schneider
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2:3 image by Sérgio Horta, 2 Apr 2010
It is a typical Portuguese communal flag, with the coat of arms centred on a plain yellow field.
António Martins-Tuválkin, 2 Apr 2010
![[Alvarelhos (Trofa) commune CoA]](../images/p/pt-trfag-av).gif)
image by Sérgio Horta, 2 Apr 2010
The arms are Azure a Nereid ( a kind of mermaid, a daughter of ancient Greek God Nereus) Or. Mural crown Argent with three visible towers (village rank) and white scroll reading in black upper case letters "ALVARELHOS - TROFA".
Meaning:
Alvarelhos is home to a Bronze Age castrum, whence the nereid imagery might have come from, look here.
António Martins-Tuválkin, 2 Apr 2010
![[Alvarelhos (Trofa) commune 1996]](../images/p/pt-trfag996.gif)
2:3 image by Sérgio Horta, 2 Apr 2010
The same like version 1999, but the inscription of the scroll had been "ALVARELHOS - SANTO TIRSO".
Published in Diário da República: III Série on 1 July 1999, the former version on 14 March 1996
António Martins-Tuválkin, 2 Apr 2010
Alvarelhos Commune was one of the pre-2013 communes of Trofa Municipality (q.v.); it had 3151 inhabitants in 2011 and covered 6.5 km².
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 31 Mar 2015
![[Guidões commune (until 2013)]](../images/p/pt-trfag-gu.gif)
2:3 image by , 31 Mar 2015
It is a typical Portuguese communal flag, with the coat of arms centred on a plain yellow field.
Sources: here and here
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 31 Mar 2015
Shield Azure with base wavy of Argent and Azure, issuant from base a demi wheel Argent of a watermill, in centre two grapevines Or leaved Argent ordered per fess, in chief a Paschal Lamb passant Argent. Mural crown Argent with three visible towers (village rank) and white scroll with inscription in black initials "GUIDÕES".
Source: this webpage
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 31 Mar 2015
Published in Diário da República: III Série on 25 July 2000 and Diário da República: II Série on 15 November 2007
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 31 Mar 2015
Guidões Commune was one of the pre-2013 communes of Trofa Municipality (q.v.); it had 1659 inhabitants in 2011 and covered 4.2 km².
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 31 Mar 2015
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