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![[Torrozelo e Folhadosa united commune flag]](../images/p/pt-seitf.gif)
2:3, image by António Martins-Tuválkin and Sérgio Horta, 11 July 2025
It is a typical Portuguese communal flag with the coat of arms centred on a plain blue field.
Source: Sérgio Horta´s webpage
António Martins-Tuválkin, 11 July 2025
![[Torrozelo e Folhadosa united commune CoA]](../images/p/pt-seitf).gif)
image by António Martins-Tuválkin and Sérgio Horta, 11 July 2025
Shield Or an armillary sphere Azure between three bay laurel twigs set in pale and arrayed 2:1.
Mural crown Argent with four visible towers (town rank) and white scroll reading
in black upper case serifed letters "UNIÃO DAS FREGUESIAS DE TORROZELO E FOLHADOSA".
Meaning:
The arms combine Tte twigs from Folhadosa and the armillary sphere from Torrozelo.
Sources: Sérgio Horta´s webpage
António Martins-Tuválkin, 14 July 2025
Published in Diário da República: II Série on 12 January 2017, see here
António Martins-Tuválkin, 11 July 2025
Torrozelo e Folhadosa is one of the seven communes of Seia Municipality created by a merger during the 2013 changes. It had 708 inhabitants in 2021 and covers 10,20 km².
António Martins-Tuválkin, 11 July 2025
![[Torrozelo commune flag (until 2013) #2]](../images/p/pt-seitf-tz.gif) 2:3, image by António Martins-Tuválkin, 14 July 2025 |
![[Torrozelo commune flag (until 2013) #1]](../images/p/pt-seitf-tz1.gif) 2:3, image by António Martins-Tuválkin, 14 July 2025 |
It is a typical Portuguese communal flag, with the coat of arms centred on a field quartered of red and blue (see left image above) or blue and red (see right image above).
Source: official communal documents
António Martins-Tuválkin, 14 July 2025
![[Torrozelo commune CoA (until 2013)]](../images/p/pt-seitf-tz).gif)
image by António Martins-Tuválkin andSérgio Horta, 14 July 2025
Shield parted per fess, at dexter Argent two armillary spheres Azure arrayed in pale, at sinister Azure a pillory Argent.
Mural crown Argent with three visible towers (village rank) and white scroll reading in black upper case serifed letters "TORROSELO".
A variant (see right flag image at top) shows also a very different rendering of the pillory,more stylised, and, most importantly, the spheres as Or, instead of Azure, on the marshalled Argent field;
additionally the spheres are topped with crosslets Gules, likely patty.
Meaning:
The pillory is a representation of the local pillory of the fountain of the Moors (Pelourinho da Fonte dos Mouros),
not described as Argent but as "made of stone&qunot; (Portuguese: de pedra).
While the previously reported version was likely rejected by the CHAAP for having its shield parted per pale,
which goes against the law about local heraldry in Portugal,
this (earlier) version incurrs additionally in the "sin" of contradicting the Rule of Tincture — a basic precept of heraldic design in general,
proscribing i.a. golden elements on a silvery background, as in this case, and also a requirement of said law
(here we can replace the untranslated "Iluminura" of Jorge Candeias by "Rule of tincture", I think).
José Quelhas Bigotte refers to an unclear historical origin of these arms, dating back to 1514.
Sources: José Quelhas Bigotte: "Cidade e Concelho de Seia" and Ralf Hartemink´s webpage
António Martins-Tuválkin, 14 July 2025
This commune didn´t have its coats of arms and flag offcialised before its dissolution.
There is however evidence of unofficial use of a flag and coat of arms by the communal government namely
this high relief metalwork plaque and
official communal stationery used in edicts and other documents
António Martins-Tuválkin, 14 July 2025
Torrozelo, also spelled Torroselo, was one of the 15 communes of Seia Municipality affected by the 2013 changes. It had 481 inhabitants in 2011 and covered 4,97 km².
António Martins-Tuválkin, 14 July 2025
![[Folhadosa commune flag (until 2013)]](../images/p/pt-seitf-fd.gif)
2:3, image by António Martins-Tuválkin and Sérgio Horta, 11 July 2025
It is a typical Portuguese communal flag, with the coat of arms centred on a plain blue field .
Source: Sérgio Horta´s webpage
António Martins-Tuválkin, 11 July 2025
![[Folhadosa commune CoA (until 2013)]](../images/p/pt-seitf-fd).gif)
image by António Martins-Tuválkin andSérgio Horta, 11 July 2025
Shield Or three bay laurel twigs in pale Vert ordered 2:1, in chief a scallop Azure.
Mural crown Argent with three visible towers (village rank) and short white scroll, in Bénard Guedes style,
reading in black upper case serifed letters "FOLHADOSA".
Meaning:
The word "folhadosa" is a cognate of "folha", meaning "leaf" — the arms are thus partly canting.
No idea about the scallop: The patron of the catholic parish this commune was derived from is not St. James, nor the communal territory (strewn as it is up the mountains)
includes any stretch of the Way of St. James.
Source: Ralf Hartemink´s webpage
António Martins-Tuválkin, 11 July 2025
Published in Diário da República: III Série on 27 October 2004
António Martins-Tuválkin, 11 July 2025
Folhadosa was one of the 15 communes of Seia Municipality affected by the 2013 changes. It had 327 inhabitants in 2011 and covered 3,33 km².
António Martins-Tuválkin,
back to Seia Communes click here
