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Sandomil Commune (Portugal)

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2:3, image by António Martins-Tuválkin and Sérgio Horta, 26 July 2025
2:3, image by António Martins-Tuválkin and Sérgio Horta, 27 July 2025
2:3, image by António Martins-Tuválkin, 27 July 2025

Sandomil Commune

Flag
Coat of Arms
Presentation of Sandomil

See also:

Sandomil Commune

Flag

It is a typical Portuguese communal flag with the coat of arms centred on a field quartered of purple and yellow, either with normal scroll (see left image above), or with short scroll, in Bénard Guedes style (see central image above) or draft with unknown colour and arms without chief (see central image above).
I failed however to find any example of local flag use. In the likely case it follows the 1928 CHAAP grant, a purple over yellow quarterly flag image is ready to be sent; meanwhile here is a placeholder.
Source: Sérgio Horta´s webpage
António Martins-Tuválkin, 26 July 2025

Coat of Arms

António Martins-Tuválkin

Sérgio Horta

Shield Sable three maize ears Or leafed Argent and tied at their stems by a ribbon Gules, on chief Argent three grape bunches Purple leafed Vert Mural crown Argent with four visible towers (town rank) and white scroll reading in black upper case serifed letters "VILLA DE SANDOMIL".
Meaning:
This text includes unusual and suboptimal terminological choices, such as "fita" (= "ribbon") instead of "listel" (= "scroll"), lacks the colour indication of the tassels and cord, and prescribes the flag size to be one meter to the side, an unnecessarily absolute determination. It is exemplary of the very early modern work on Portuguese civic arms, done mostly by Afonso Dornelas, which would become standardised in the 1930s. The use of pre-1911 spelling in this text affects the flag, as "villa" should be spelled "vila".
Ralf Hartemink shows a different image as follows: a shield Argent with green maize leaves and the grape bunches in chief but not on a chief.

Afonso Dornelas states that, by virtue of having been made a town in 1514, a seal of Sandomil must have existed (and thus a coat of arms, one presumes), but that is lost and its details unknown. Lacking any historical reasons for other heraldic elements, the chosen charges were inspired anew on the local agricultural bounty.
This variant of the coat of arms granted in 1928 seems to match local official use, as in the clearly chiefless representation of the arms at as shown here, here and as a sculpture here
Sources: Ralf Hartemink´s webpage and Afonso Dornelas 1928
António Martins-Tuválkin, 26 July 2025

Flag and arms were established by the CHAAP on 16 May 1928 and not further officialised; it was unofficially published as part of a series in Elucidario Nobiliarchico I:IV (June 1928): pp.178-181, archived here
António Martins-Tuválkin, 26 July 2025

Presentation of Sandomil

Sandomil is one of the 14 communes of Seia Municipality not affected by the 2013 changes. It had 745 inhabitants in 2021 and covers 13,22 km².
António Martins-Tuválkin, 26 July 2025

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