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![[Bandeiras commune]](../images/p/pt-madbd.gif)
2:3 image by Sérgio Horta, 30 June 2005
It is a typical Portuguese communal flag, with the coat of arms centred on a field divided quarterly blue and yellow.
António Martins-Tuválkin, 30 June 2005
A delightful flag! We’ve seen countless coats of arms on flags, of course; now we see a flag on a coat of arms on a flag.
Lewis A. Nowitz, 30 June 2005
"Bandeiras" means "flags" in Portuguese. I cannot say, how it got that name.
Jorge Candeias, 30 June 2005
These are Argent three flags dressed Azure and staffed Sable set in fess in point a bunch of grapes fruited Or and leaved Vert in chief a goshawk Gules displayed holding an inescutcheon Azure charged with five plates (a quina). Mural crown Argent
with three visible towers (village rank). White scroll reading in black capitals "BANDEIRAS".
Meaning:
The main charge is canting, of course, while the chief is the usual azorean charge. The grapes probably stand for the famous local wine (vinho do Pico).
António Martins-Tuválkin, 30 June 2005
Flag and arms published in the official journal Diário da República: III Série on 25 March 2003
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 18 Sep 2016
It is a village (not a town), the seat of one of the six communes of Madalena Municipality in Pico Island, Azores.
Bandeiras Commune is one of the six communes of the Madalena municipality; it had 626 inhabitants in 2011 and covers 25.9 km².
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 18 Sep 2016
back to Madalena Communes click here
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