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![[Póvoa de Lanhoso municipal flag]](../images/p/pt-pvl.gif)
2:3, image by António Martins-Tuválkin and Sérgio Horta, 1 Nov 2025
It is a typical Portuguese municipal flag with the coat of arms centred on a plain yellow field.
Source: Sérgio Horta´s webpage
António Martins-Tuválkin,
![[Póvoa de Lanhoso municipal flag 1935 - 1940]](../images/p/pt-pvl1.gif)
2:3, image by António Martins-Tuválkin and Sérgio Horta, 1 Nov 2025
It was a typical Portuguese municipal flag with the coat of arms centred on a plain yellow field.
Source: Sérgio Horta´s webpage
António Martins-Tuválkin, 1 Nov 2025
![[Póvoa de Lanhoso municipal CoA]](../images/p/pt-pvl).gif)
image by António Martins-Tuválkin and Sérgio Horta, 1 Nov 2025
Shield Gules, on a cross throughout Azure fimbriated, the quarters covered by filigrane hearts Or, a castle tower Or with port and windows Gules.
Mural crown Argent with four visible towers (town rank) and white scroll reading
in black upper case serifed letters "VILA DA PÓVOA DE LANHOSO".
Meaning:
The 1940 grant of a municipal coat of arms for Póvoa de Lanhoso was not the first, and most of the text is about how this
design is justified based on feedback from the local authorities and also explains, why some of the details proposed by them were not taken
included in the final design — namely the national inescutcheons Azure with plates, see here.
Instead, to reflect the historical role of this town, see here,
the blue cross of the contemporary (and first) royal arms was used instead.
Source: Ralf Hartemink´s webpage
António Martins-Tuválkin, 1 Nov 2025
![[Póvoa de Lanhoso municipal CoA 1935]](../images/p/pt-pvl1).gif)
image by António Martins-Tuválkin and Sérgio Horta, 1 Nov 2025
Shield Sable four maize ears Or arrayed in cross and pointing outwards with stems fretty,
accompained at the corners by four grape bunches Purple leafed Or. Mural crown and scroll as in current arms.
Meaning:
It was likely created based merely on local farming products, as in so many other such coats of arms created around this time,
featuring a notably handsome heraldic arrangement of maize and grapes.
António Martins-Tuválkin, 1 Nov 2025
Current symbols published in Diário do Govêrno: I Série on 28 JUly 1940, see here,
former symbols on 20 December 1935.
This municipality has 21 787 inhabitants in 134,65 km2 and belongs to the old province of Minho,
to the region to be of Entre-Douro-e-Minho and to the current Braga District.
António Martins-Tuválkin, 3 Oct 1998
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