Castanheiro do Norte e Ribalonga United Commune (Portugal)

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União das Freguesias de Castanheiro do Norte e Ribalonga, Concelho da Carrazeda de Ansiães, Distrito de Bragança

2:3, image by António Martins-Tuválkin and Sérgio Horta, 5 Feb 2024

2:3 image by António Martins-Tuválkin and Sérgio Horta, 5 Feb 2024

• Castanheiro do Norte e Ribalonga United Commune
• Flag
• Coat of Arms
• Presentation of
• Former Castanheiro Commune (until 2013)
• Flag
• Coat of Arms
• Presentation of Castanheiro
• Former Ribalonga Commune (until 2013)
• Flag
• Coat of Arms
• Presentation of Ribalonga

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Castanheiro do Norte e Ribalonga United Commune

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, 5 Feb 2024

Coat of Arms

Shield Argent a chestnut tree eradicated Gules and leafed Vert and its chestnuts Vert slit Or, flanked at dexter by a grape vine Vert fruited Purpure and at sinister by an olive branch Vert fruited Sable, both with their stems crossed per saltire and tied Gules, base barruly wavy of four Azure and Argent. Mural crown Argent with three visible towers (village rank) and long silver scroll reading in black upper case serifed letters "UNIÃO DAS FREGUESIAS DE CASTANHEIRO DO NORTE E RIBALONGA" (see left image above) or with usual silver scroll reading in black upper case serifed letters "CASTANHEIRO DO NORTE E RIBALONGA" (see left image above), both following the the short lived mid-2010s CHAAP custom.
Meaning:
The chestnut tree (Portuguese: castanheiro) is a canting element.
Source: Sérgio Horta´s webpage
António Martins-Tuválkin, 5 Feb 2024

Published in Diário da República: II Série on 29 July 2015, see here

Presentation of Castanheiro do Norte e Ribalonga

Castanheiro do Norte e Ribalonga is one of the four communes of Carrazeda de Ansiães Municipality created by a merger during the 2013 changes. It had 403 inhabitants in 2021 and covers 20,7 km².
António Martins-Tuválkin, 5 Feb 2024

Former Castanheiro 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, 4 Feb 2024

Coat of Arms

Shield Argent a column Gules flanked at dexter by a grape vine Vert fruited by two bunches Purpure and at sinister by an olive branch Vert fruited Sable, both in pale. Mural crown Argent with three visible towers (village rank) and short white scroll, in Bénard Guedes style, reading in black upper case serifed letters "CASTANHEIRO".
Source: Hiperglobal webpage
António Martins-Tuválkin, 4 Feb 2024

Published in Diário da República: II Série on 19 July 2006
António Martins-Tuválkin, 4 Feb 2024

Presentation of Castanheiro

Castanheiro was one of the nine communes of Carrazeda de Ansiães Municipality affected by the 2013 changes. It had 427 inhabitants in 2011 and covered 13,66 km². When merging with Ribalonga the name was changed to Castanheiro do Norte due to nearby Castanheiro do Sul in São João da Pesqueira Municipality.
António Martins-Tuválkin, 4 Feb 2024

Former Ribalonga Commune (until 2013)

Flag

I talked on the phone with the head of the local communal government he could not recall the flag colour for Ribalonga.
phone call
António Martins-Tuválkin, 14 Feb 2024

Coat of Arms

Shield Or a coronet Gules speared by a torch Sable alight Gules, flanked by two grapevines Vert fruited Purpure set per orle with their stem tips crossed per saltire, on base wavy Azure a barrulet wavy Argent. Mural crown Argent with three visible towers (village rank) and white scroll reading in black upper case serifed letters "RIBALONGA - CARRAZEDA DE ANSIÃES".
Source: Hiperglobal webpage

This former commune apparently used for some time a coat of arms that had never been officialised, although, guessing from its aspect, it might have been created in the usual fashion and the officialisation process was just cancelled when the commune itself ceased to exist. If so, a flag was created at the same time as the coat of arms, as it is always the case with symbols created by the CHAAP or meant to be pre-approved by it.
António Martins-Tuválkin, 14 Feb 2024

Presentation of Ribalonga

Ribalonga was one of the nine communes of Carrazeda de Ansiães Municipality affected by the 2013 changes. It had 92 inhabitants in 2011 and covered 7,04  km².
António Martins-Tuválkin, 14 Feb 2024

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