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![[Estreito commune (-2013)]](../images/p/pt-olrev-es.gif)
2:3 image by Sérgio Horta, 24 Mar 2010, modified by Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 5 June 2010
It is a typical Portuguese communal flag, with the coat of arms centred on a plain white field.
António Martins-Tuválkin, 24 Mar 2010
![[Estreito commune CoA (-2013)]](../images/p/pt-olrev-es).gif)
image by Sérgio Horta, 24 Mar 2010
The arms are Sable a pile reversed Argent, in chief an inescutcheon Gules bearing a cross Maltese Gules. Mural crown argent with three visible towers (village rank) and white scroll reading in black upper case letters "ESTREITO - OLEIROS".
Meaning:
"Estreito" means "narrow" (cp. "strait"), and the toponym refers to a local canyon; the pile is canting for this; the Maltese escutchon refers to local importance of this Order.
Source: this webpage
António Martins-Tuválkin, 24 Mar 2010
Published in Diário da República: III Série on 6 June 1997
António Martins-Tuválkin, 24 Mar 2010
Estreito Commune is one of the pre-2013 communes of Oleiros Municipality; it had 845 inhabitants in 2011 and covered 70.0 km².
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 2 Feb 2018
![[Vilar Barroco commune (-2013)]](../images/p/pt-olrev-vb.gif)
2:3 image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 2 Feb 2018
It is a typical Portuguese communal flag, with the coat of arms centred on a plain red field.
Source: communal webpage
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 2 Feb 2018
Shield Or, a fess wavy Azure, charged with a bar wavy Argent, charged with two trouts Gules, in chief a bunch of seven arrows Gules tied Vert, in base a cuckoo statant Proper. Mural crown Argent with three visible towers (village rank) and white scroll with inscription in black capitals "VILAR BARROCO".
Source: this webpage
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 2 Feb 2018
Published in Diário da República: II Série on 3 May 2007
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 2 Feb 2018
Vilar Barroco Commune was one of the pre-2013 communes of Braga Municipality; it had 114 inhabitants in 2011 and covered 23.5 km².
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 2 Feb 2018
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