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![[Alturas do Barroso e Cerdedo united commune flag]](../images/p/pt-btcac.gif)
2:3, image by António Martins-Tuválkin, 30 May 2024
It is a typical Portuguese communal flag, with the coat of arms centred on a plain green field.
Source: Boticas municipal webpage
António Martins-Tuválkin, 30 May 2024
Shield Argent two hunting horns Sable cordoned Gules and pointing outwards, in chief a bull head caboshed Proper armed Argent and garnished Sable, on a triplemount Vert
issuant from the base a potato plant eradicated Or with its tubers Argent. Mural crown Argent with three visible towers (village rank) and white scroll reading in black upper case serifed letters "ALTURAS DE BARROSO E CERDEDO".
Meaning:
This coat of arms includes elements from the coats of arms of the constituent former communes.
Source: Boticas municipal webpage
António Martins-Tuválkin, 30 May 2024
The symbols are in use at least since 2015.
António Martins-Tuválkin, 30 May 2024
Alturas do Barroso e Cerdedo is one of the five communes of Boticas Municipality created by a merger during the 2013 changes. It had 389 inhabitants in 2021 and covers 56,25 km².
The heights of Barroso are one of the last undiscovered nooks of Portugal — towering over the meadow of Chaves, a land of witchcraft conventions, failed meter-gauge railways, medieval
cross-border extraterritoriality, pharaonic hydro damms, easy-listening festivals, and toxic abandoned mines set to reopen.
António Martins-Tuválkin, 28/30 May 2024
![[Alturas do Barroso commune flag (until 2013)]](../images/p/pt-btcac-al.gif)
2:3, image by António Martins-Tuválkin, 28 May 2024
It is a typical Portuguese communal flag, with the coat of arms centred on a plain red field.
Source: Sérgio Horta´s webpage
António Martins-Tuválkin, 28 May 2024
![[Alturas do Barroso commune CoA (until 2013)]](../images/p/pt-btcac-al).gif)
image by Sérgio Horta, 28 May 2024
Shield Argent a perfume cup Gules flanked by two rye ears Vert with their stem tips crossed per saltire, on a doublemount Vert issuant from base a bull head caboshed Or armed Argent
and garnished Sable. Mural crown Argent with three visible towers (village rank) and white scroll reading in black upper case serifed letters "ALTURAS DO BARROSO".
Meaning:
The perfume cup is an attribute of St. Mary Magdalen, the local patron saint. As the mount can be said to stand for heights, these arms are partially canting for part of the toponym.
Source: Hiperglobal webpage
António Martins-Tuválkin, 28 May 2024
Published in Diário da República: II Série on 5 December 2007, see here
António Martins-Tuválkin, 28 May 2024
Alturas do Barroso e Cerdedo was one of the 11 communes of Boticas Municipality affected by the 2013 changes. It had 399 inhabitants in 2011 and covered 32,77 km².
This toponym means "heights of Barroso", the latter toponym, as said, being a common appelation for this commune and the neighbouring Montalegre commune, which take up most of a mountainous landform named Serra do Barroso (literally: muddy range).
António Martins-Tuválkin, 28 May 2024
![[ commune flag (until 2013)]](../images/p/pt-btcac-cd.gif)
2:3, image by António Martins-Tuválkin, 29 May 2024
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, 29 May 2024
![[ commune CoA (until 2013)]](../images/p/pt-btcac-cd).gif)
image by Sérgio Horta, 29 May 2024
Shield Or a potato plant eradicated Vert with its tubers Gules, in chief two hunting horns Sable cordoned Gules and pointing outwards, issuant from base a triplemount Vert. Mural crown Argent with three visible towers (village rank) and short white scroll, in Bérnard Guedes style, reading in black upper case serifed letters "CERDEDO".
Source: Hiperglobal webpage
António Martins-Tuválkin, 29 May 2024
Published in Diário da República: III Série on 23 May 2003
António Martins-Tuválkin, 29 May 2024
Cerdedo was one of the 11 communes of Boticas Municipality affected by the 2013 changes. It had 145 inhabitants in 2011 and covered 23,88 km².
António Martins-Tuválkin, 29 May 2024
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