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Keywords: alvite(cabeceiras de basto) | passos(cabeceiras de basto) | keys(crossed) | arrows |
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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 Dec 2024
![[Alvite (Cabeceiras de Basto) commune flag (until 2013)]](../images/p/pt-cbcap-at.gif)
2:3, image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 17 Dec 2024
It is a typical Portuguese communal flag, with the coat of arms centred on a plain green field.
Source: Sérgio Horta´s webpage
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 17 Dec 2024
Shield Argent an embattled rectangular tower Gules masoned Sable with windows of the same, flanked by two corn cobs Or leafed Vert, on central chief two keys Azure in saltire, tied Gules. Mural crown Argent with three visible towers (village rank) and white scroll reading in black upper case serifed letters "ALVITE - CABECEIRAS DE BASTO".
Meaning:
The crossed keys are an attribute of St. Peter, the local patron saint.
Source: Hiperglobal webpage
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 17 Dec 2024
Published in Diário da República: III Série on 13 August 2005
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 17 Dec 2024
Alvite was one of the nine communes of Cabeceiras de Basto Municipality affected by the 2013 changes. It had 2048 inhabitants in 2011 and covered 7,97 km².
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 17 Dec 2024
I couldn´t find any flag information.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 17 Dec 2024
![[Passos (Cabeceiras de Basto) commune CoA (until 2013)]](../images/p/pt-cbcap-ps).gif)
image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 17 Dec 2024
Shield Argent, issuant from base wavy of Azure and Argent a mount Vert, on centre two corn cobs Or leafed Vert in fess, on central chief three arrows Azure tied Gules in fan. Mural crown Argent with three visible towers (village rank) and white scroll reading in black upper case serifed letters "PASSOS - CABECEIRAS DE BASTO".
Meaning:
The arrows are an attribute of St. Sebastian, the local patron saint.
Source: Hiperglobal webpage
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 17 Dec 2024
Symbols proposed by CHAAP on 24 November 2009, not published in Diário da República:
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 17 Dec 2024
Passos was one of the nine communes of Cabeceiras de Basto Municipality affected by the 2013 changes. It had 221 inhabitants in 2011 and covered 5,47 km².
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 17 Dec 2024
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