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![[Alvoco da Serra commune flag]](../images/p/pt-seias.gif)
2:3, image by António Martins-Tuválkin and Sérgio Horta, 7 July 2025
It is a typical Portuguese communal flag with the coat of arms centred on a field quartered of green and yellow.
Source: Sérgio Horta´s webpage
António Martins-Tuválkin, 7 July 2025
![[Alvoco da Serra commune CoA]](../images/p/pt-seias).gif)
image by António Martins-Tuválkin and Sérgio Horta, 7 July 2025
Shield Argent a bridge Sable masoned Argent issuant from flanches and from base wavy Azure charged with a bar wavy Argent, in chief an estoile Gules between two maize ears Or leafed Vert.
Mural crown Argent with four visible towers (town rank) and white scroll reading
in black upper case serifed letters "ALVOCO DA SERRA".
Meaning:
The bridge on the arms likely stands for an actual bridge over the River Alvoco and the star is the usual reference to Serra da Estrela, here more aptly chosen than most elsewhere, as Alvoco da Serra is one of the four communes sharing the Star Peak —
summit of mainland Portugal, at 1993m, the others being Loriga, Unhais da Serra and São Pedro de Manteigas.
Source: Ralf Hartemink´s webpage,
António Martins-Tuválkin, 7 July 2025
Published in Diário da República: III Série on 31 December 1998
António Martins-Tuválkin, 7 July 2025
Alvoco da Serra is one of the 15 communes of Seia Municipality created by the merger during the 2013 changes. It had 331 inhabitants in 2021 and covers 37,57 km².
António Martins-Tuválkin, 7 July 2025
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