Last modified: 2017-09-22 by klaus-michael schneider
Keywords: rebordoes(santo tirso) | escallop | chestnut(twig) | cogwheel | bridge |
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![[Rebordões (Santo Tirso) commune]](../images/p/pt-stsrb.gif)
2:3 image by Sérgio Horta, 24 July 2017
It is a typical Portuguese communal flag, with the coat of arms centred on a field quartered of blue and yellow.
António Martins-Tuválkin, 24 July 2017
![[Rebordões (Santo Tirso) commune CoA]](../images/p/pt-stsrb).gif)
image by Sérgio Horta, 24 July 2017
Shield Azure, an escallop Or, a chestnut twig with burrs Argent and nuts Gules, and a cogwheel Argent, all ordered 1:2; issuant from base wavy Argent, charged with a barrulet wavy Azure, a bridge Or masoned Sable. Mural crown Argent with four visible towers (town rank) and white scroll reading in black upper case letters "REBORDÕES - SANTO TIRSO".
Meaning:
The word "rebordões" means "wild chestnut[ tree]s", and the arms are therefore partly canting. The escallop is an attribute of St. James the Elder, the local patron saint.
Source:
António Martins-Tuválkin, 24 July 2017 and Klaus-Michael Schneider, 21 Sep 2017
Flag and arms published in the official journal Diário da República: III Série on 27 May 2003
António Martins-Tuválkin, 24 July 2017
Rebordões Commune is one of the 14 communes of Santo Tirso Municipality; it had 3368 inhabitants in 2011 and covers 4.2 km².
António Martins-Tuválkin, 24 July 2017
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