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![[Vau commune flag]](../images/p/pt-obdva.gif)
2:3, image by António Martins-Tuválkin and Sérgio Horta, 30 Jan 2026
It is a typical Portuguese communal flag, with the coat of arms centred on a field quartered of green and white.
Source: Sérgio Horta´s webpage
António Martins-Tuválkin, 18 Aug 2010
![[Vau commune CoA]](../images/p/pt-obdva).gif)
image by Sérgio Horta, 18 Aug 2010
The arms are wavy of ten Argent and Vert on a pale between two crescents recumbent Gules, in base a pair of oars Sable tied Gules, in chief an inescutcheon Azure ten plates set 2:3:2:3.
Mural crown Argent with three visible towers (village rank) and white scroll reading in black upper case letters "VAU".
Meaning:
"Vau" means "ford" (cp. "wade") and the pale on waves plus the oars on the CoA refer to that (canting). The green waves refer to the location at the seashore.
Inescutcheon and crescents refer to the municipal arms of Óbidos.
António Martins-Tuválkin, 18 Aug 2010
Published in Diário da República: III Série on 6 July 1995, see here
António Martins-Tuválkin, 18 Aug 2010
Vau is one of the six communes of Óbidos Municipality not affected by the 2013 changes; it had 952 inhabitants in 2011 and covers 32,9 km².
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 14 Mar 2016
back to Óbidos Communes click here
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