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![[Vilares e Carnicães united commune flag]](../images/p/pt-tcsvc.gif)
2:3, image by António Martins-Tuválkin and Sérgio Horta, 14 June 2025
It is a typical Portuguese communal flag with the coat of arms centred on a plain yellow field.
Source: Sérgio Horta´s webpage
António Martins-Tuválkin, 14 June 2025
![[Vilares e Carnicães united commune CoA]](../images/p/pt-tcsvc-vl).gif)
image by António Martins-Tuválkin and Sérgio Horta, 14 June 2025
The arms are the same as those of the former Vilares Commune with one difference: the inscription on the scroll is "UNIÃO DAS FREGUESIAS DE VILARES E CARNICÃES".
Sources: Sérgio Horta´s webpage
António Martins-Tuválkin, 14 June 2025
Published in Diário da República: II Série on 26 April 2017, see here
António Martins-Tuválkin, 14 June 2025
Vilares e Carnicães is one of the six communes of Trancoso Municipality created by the merger during the 2013 changes. It had 307 inhabitants in 2021 and covers 20,14nbsp;km².
António Martins-Tuválkin, 14 June 2025
![[Vilares commune flag (until 2013)]](../images/p/pt-tcsvc-vl.gif)
2:3, image by António Martins-Tuválkin and Sérgio Horta, 13 June 2025
It is a typical Portuguese communal flag, with the coat of arms centred on a plain yellow field .
Source: Sérgio Horta´s webpage
António Martins-Tuválkin, 13 June 2025
image by António Martins-Tuválkin andSérgio Horta, 13 June 2025
Shield Gules two olive branches Argent leafed Or in saltire and tied with a ribbon Or, on chief a heraldic rose Or seeded Argent and barbed Azure, issuant from flanches and from base wavy Azure, charged with a barrulet wavy Argent, a "valley" Argent.
Mural crown Argent with three visible towers (village rank) and white scroll reading in black upper case serifed letters "VILARES - TRANCOSO".
Meaning:
This is one more of those Portuguese local civic coats of arms including the idiosyncratic charge "valley" — the archetype of which, pioneered in
1937, is on the municipal arms of Fundão , even if not blazoned as such and depicted in a naturalistic style.
Source: Ralf Hartemink´s webpage
António Martins-Tuválkin, 13 June 2025
Published in Diário da República: II Série on 24 January 2011, see here
António Martins-Tuválkin, 13 June 2025
Vilares was one of the 14 communes of Trancoso Municipality affected by the 2013 changes. It had 196 inhabitants in 2011 and covered 11,69 km².
António Martins-Tuválkin, 13 June 2025
Carnicães was one of the 14 communes of Trancoso Municipality affected by the 2013 changes. It had 153 inhabitants in 2011 and covered 8,44nbsp;km². The commune had no proper symbols or they are unknown.
António Martins-Tuválkin, 1 June 2025
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