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![[Montalvão commune]](../images/p/pt-nisma.gif) 2:3, image by António Martins-Tuválkin, 26 June 2026 |
![[Montalvão commune in use]](../images/p/pt-nisma1.gif) 2:3, image by António Martins-Tuválkin, 26 June 2026 |
It is a typical Portuguese communal flag, (see left image above) with the coat of arms centred on a field quartered of white and blue.
Sources: Sérgio Horta´s webpage, here
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 8 Jan 2016
Other depictions of this flag (see right image above) unsurprisingly follow this interpretation with two shades of blue, such as the above mentioned embroidered patch by Lousã Têxtil.
The flag on the photo also seems to be a blend of what is prescribed separately for the banner (estandarte) and for the hoisting flag (bandeira [de hastear]), as it is oblong at 2:3 but corded,
with tassles and fringes, and sleeved to a spear.
Sources: communal webpage
António Martins-Tuválkin, 26 June 2026
![[Montalvão commune CoA]](../images/p/pt-nisma).gif)
image by António Martins-Tuválkin and Sérgio Horta, 25 June 2026
Shield Azure, a craggy mound Argent, parted by a bar wavy Azure, crowned by a castle of the same masoned Sable with port and windows Gules having three embattled towers.
The mountain is flanked by a branch of olive fructed Sable at dexter and a branch of oak fructed Vert at sinister both Or,in chief a bar wavy Argent.
Mural crown Argent with four visible towers (town rank) and white scroll with inscription in black initials "MONTALVÃO".
Source: here
Meaning:
The word "montalvão" derives from the phrase "monte alvo_" (being, by surface analysis, juxtaposed and in the augmentative), meaning "white
hill" — these arms being therefore canting.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 8 Jan 2016 and
António Martins-Tuválkin, 26 June 2026
Published in Diário da República: III Série on 5 June 1997, see here
António Martins-Tuválkin, 26 June 2026
Montalvão Commune is one of the seven communes of the Nisa Municipality; it had 442 inhabitants in 2011 and covers 123.9 km².
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 8 Jan 2016
back to Nisa Communes click here
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