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klaus-michael schneider
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The commune either has not yet proper symbols or they are unknown.
Source: Sérgio Horta´s webpage
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 17 May 2024
![[Caçarelhos commune (until 2013)]](../images/p/pt-vmsca-cc.gif)
2:3 image by António Martins-Tuválkin, 23 June 2024
It is a slightly unusual Portuguese communal flag, with the coat of arms centred on a plain yellow field.
Source: Sérgio Horta´s webpage
António Martins-Tuválkin, 23 June 2024
![[Caçarelhos commune CoA (until 2013)]](../images/p/pt-vmsca-cc).gif)
image by Sérgio Horta, 25 Mar 2017
Shield Vert, two rabbitss courant Or spotted Sable with eyes Gules in fess, in chief two keys in saltire, one Or bendwise over the other Argent bendwise sinister, issuant from base a craggy mount Argent emphasised Sable. Mural crown Argent with three visible towers (village rank) and short white scroll (Bénard Guedes style) reading in black upper case letters "CAÇARELHOS".
Source: this webpage
Meaning:
The keys are an attribute of St. Peter, the local patron saint. The rabbits are alluding to the fact that the village had to pay a tribute of rabbits, which had been hunted, to Miranda do Douro. The name is derived from "caçar (co)elhos". (= "hunting rabbits"). The quarry mountain is alluding to the depletion of granite, an important local business line.
Source: Sérgio Horta´s webpage
António Martins-Tuválkin, 25 Mar 2017 and Klaus-Michael Schneider, 23 June 2024
Published in Diário da República: III Série on 6 October 2004
António Martins-Tuválkin, 25 Mar 2017
Caçarelhos was one of the pre-2013 communes of Vimioso Municipality; it had 219 inhabitants in 2011 and covered 31,0 km². This commune was one of three detached from neighbouring municipality of Miranda do Douro in the 19th century, and local bilingualism gives the village its two names: Caçarelhos in Portuguese and Caçareilhos in Mirandese (the local syncretic Asturian-Leonese dialect complex, co-official language of Portugal and given a standard orthography); each is the translation of the other and both mean "dry hamlet". In spite of this bilingualism (enshrined in the Constitution of 1999), the scroll of the arms is not bilingual, according to the law (signed in 2004).
Sources: Portuguese WIKIPEDIA and Mirandese WIKIPEDIA
António Martins-Tuválkin, 25 Mar 2017
Angueira never had its own symbols. Hiperglobal webpage displays just an empty shield.
information confirmed by president of the communal government
António Martins-Tuválkin and Klaus-Michael Schneider, 25 Mar 2017
Angueira was one of the pre-2013 communes of Vimioso Municipality; it had 116 inhabitants in 2011 and covered 22,2 km².
António Martins-Tuválkin, 25 Mar 2017
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