Parada e Sendim da Ribeira United Commune (Portugal)

Last modified: 2024-10-26 by klaus-michael schneider
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União das Freguesias de Parada e Sendim da Ribeira, Concelho de Alfândega da Fé, Distrito de Bragança

• Parada e Sendim da Ribeira United Commune
• Flag
• Possible Flag Variants
• Coat of Arms
• Presentation of Parada e Sendim da Ribeira
• Former Parada Commune (until 2013)
• Flag
• Coat of Arms
• Presentation of Parada
• Former Sendim da Ribeira Commune (until 2013)
• Flag
• Coat of Arms
• Presentation of Sendim da Ribeira

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Parada e Sendim da Ribeira United Commune

Flag

It is a typical Portuguese communal flag, with the coat of arms centred on a plain white field.
Source: Sérgio Horta´s webpage
António Martins-Tuválkin, 1 Mar 2024

Possible Flag Variants

2:3, image by António Martins-Tuválkin and Sérgio Horta, 1 Mar 2024

2:3, image by António Martins-Tuválkin and Sérgio Horta, 1 Mar 2024

The variants show either the inscription on a single embowed line on usual scroll (see left image above) or on long scroll as often used for united communes (see right image above).
António Martins-Tuválkin, 1 Mar 2024

Coat of Arms

Shield Purpure with base barruly wavy of four Argent and Azurea lamb passant Argent armed Sable flanked by an almond branch Or with flowers Argent seeded Gules at dexter and an olive branch Or fruited Argent at sinister with their stems in saltire. (village rank) and white scroll reading in black upper case serifed letters (village rank) and white scroll reading in black upper case serifed letters "UNIÃO DAS FREGUESIAS DE PARADA E SENDIM DA RIBEIRA".
Meaning:
As often happens, these symbols are partly taken from each of the two ancestor communes´ coats of arms. The animal, taken from the former Parada communal arms, is described as a sheep, more precisely a ewe (ovelha), although what is depicted, given the neck posture and relative limb length, is rather a lamb (cordeiro or anho). Indeed the heraldic clipart used (for these two and for several other Portuguese local coats of arms depicting what is blazoned as ovelha) is identical to that of the specific charge named the Paschal Lamb (Cordeiro Pascal) without its labarum and nimbus.
Source: Sérgio Horta´s webpage
António Martins-Tuválkin, 1 Mar 2024

Published in Diário da República: II Série on 26 February 2015, see here
António Martins-Tuválkin, 1 Mar 2024

Presentation of Parada e Sendim da Ribeira

Parada e Sendim da Ribeira is one of the six communes of Alfândega da Fé Municipality created by a merger during the 2013 changes. It had 208 inhabitants in 2021 and covers 25.04 km².
António Martins-Tuválkin, 1 Mar 2024

Former Parada Commune (until 2013)

Flag

It is a typical Portuguese communal flag, with the coat of arms centred on a plain white field.
Source: Sérgio Horta´s webpage
António Martins-Tuválkin, 28 Feb 2024

Coat of Arms

Shield Purpure a lamb passant Argent armed Sable and a heraldic fountain both set in pale and flanked at dexter by an olive branch Or fruited Sable and at sinister by an almond branch Or fruited Argent, both in pale. Mural crown Argent with three visible towers (village rank) and white scroll reading in black upper case serifed letters "PARADA - ALFÂNDEGA DA FÉ".
Source: Hiperglobal webpage
António Martins-Tuválkin, 28 Feb 2024

Published in Diário da República: III Série on 16 January 2003
António Martins-Tuválkin, 28 Feb 2024

Presentation of Parada

Parada was one of the 14 communes of Alfândega da Fé Municipality affected by the 2013 changes. It had 124 inhabitants in 2011 and covered 10,25 km².
António Martins-Tuválkin, 28 Feb 2024

Former Sendim da Ribeira Commune(until 2013)

Flag

It is a typical Portuguese communal flag, with the coat of arms centred on a plain green field.
Source: Sérgio Horta´s webpage
António Martins-Tuválkin, 27 Feb 2024

Coat of Arms

Shield Or two a bend sinister Azure beween two cowbells Gules in bend sinister and an eradicated olive tree Vert fruited Sable. Mural crown Argent with three visible towers (village rank) and white scroll reading in black upper case serifed letters "SENDIM DA RIBEIRA"
Source: Hiperglobal webpage
António Martins-Tuválkin, 27 Feb 2024

Published in Diário da República: III Série on 10 March 2003
António Martins-Tuválkin, 27 Feb 2024

Presentation of Sendim da Ribeira

Sendim da Ribeira was one of the 14 communes of Alfândega da Fé Municipality affected by the 2013 changes. It had 92 inhabitants in 2011 and covered 14,79 km².
António Martins-Tuválkin, 27 Feb 2024

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