![[Castro de Avelãs commune]](../images/p/pt-bgcca.gif)
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2:3 image by Sérgio Horta, 6 July 2016
It is a typical Portuguese communal flag, with the coat of arms centred on a plain green field.
Sources: this webpage and this photo
António Martins-Tuválkin, 6 July 2016
![[Castro de Avelãs commune CoA]](../images/p/pt-bgcca).gif)
image by Sérgio Horta, 6 July 2016
Shield Or a fess Sable masoned Argent (it is blazoned as a wall section, but lacks the usual embattlements) and in chief issuant from a cup Gules a serpent Vert eyed and langued Gules and in base a hazel eradicated Vert fruited Gules. Mural crown Argent with three visible towers (village rank) and white scroll reading in black upper case letters "CASTRO DE AVELÃS".
Meaning:
"Castro de Avelãs" means something like "Fort Hazel"" (literally "castle of hazelnuts"): both concepts are shown in the arms, thus partly canting.
Source: this webpage
António Martins-Tuválkin, 6 July 2016
Flag and arms published in the official journal Diário da República: II Série on 29 November 2012
Source: here
António Martins-Tuválkin, 6 July 2016
Castro de Avelãs Commune is one of the 39 communes of Bragança Municipality; it had 460 inhabitants in 2011 and covers 13.5 km².
António Martins-Tuválkin, 6 July 2016
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