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Last modified: 2015-09-05 by klaus-michael schneider
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2:3 image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 14 Apr 2015
It is a typical Portuguese communal flag, with the coat of arms centred on a plain yellow field.
António Martins-Tuválkin, 21 Nov 2010
![[Albufeira commune CoA (until 2013)]](../images/p/pt-abfao-ab).gif)
image by Sérgio Horta,
The arms are Gules a tower Argent masoned Sable with port and windows over a base wavy of Argent and Vert, pendulant from chief a demi sun-in-splendour Or with face. Mural crown Argent with three visible towers (commune rank) and white scroll reading in black
upper case letters "ALBUFEIRA".
(editorial note: the inscription is remarkable insofar, as usually for communes with a synonym municipality the inscription begins with "FREGUESIA DE ..." in order to distinct both entities)
António Martins-Tuválkin, Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, Chris Southworth, and James Dignan, 21 - 23 Nov 2010
Published in Diário da República: III Série on 12 April 1996
António Martins-Tuválkin, 21 Nov 2010
Albufeira Commune was one of the pre-2013 communes of the synonym Municipality (q.v.); it had 16 237 inhabitants in 2001 and covered 26.49 km².
António Martins-Tuválkin, 21 Nov 2010
![[Olhos de Água commune (until 2013)]](../images/p/pt-abfao-oa.gif)
2:3 image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 14 Apr 2015
It is a typical Portuguese communal flag, with the coat of arms centred on a plain yellow field.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 14 Apr 2015
![[Olhos de Água commune CoA (until 2013)]](../images/p/pt-abfao-oa).gif)
image by Sérgio Horta,
Shield Azure, a rectangular, embattled tower Or masoned Sable with port and windows Gules flanked at dexter by a branch of pine Argent fruited Or and at sinister by a grapevine Or leaved Argent, in base three heraldic fountains ordered 2:1. Mural crown Argent with three visible towers (village rank) and white scroll with inscription in black initials: "OLHOS DE ÁGUA - ALBUFEIRA".
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 14 Apr 2015
Published in Diário da República: III Série on 2 November 2004
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 14 Apr 2015
Olhos de Água Commune was one of the pre-2013 communes of Albufeira Municipality (q.v.); it had 3309 inhabitants in 2011 and covered 14.5 km².
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 14 Apr 2015
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