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![[Soutelo de Aguiar commune flag]](../images/p/pt-vpaso.gif)
2:3, image by António Martins-Tuválkin and Sérgio Horta´, 11 Oct 2024
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, 11 Oct 2024
![[Soutelo de Aguiar commune CoA]](../images/p/pt-vpaso).gif)
image by António Martins-Tuválkin and Sérgio Horta, 11 Oct 2024
Shield Vert a scallop Or, flanked by two chestnut boughs Argent with its burrs Or slit Gules and its stem tips in saltire. Mural crown Argent with three visible towers (village rank) and white scroll reading in black upper case serifed letters "SOUTELO DE AGUIAR"
Meaning:
As often happens, the boughs are blazoned as being in orle but depicted as the usual roughly circular wreath.
The phrase "soutelo de aguiar" means literally "minor chestnut-grove of/by [an/the] eagle´s lair"; the arms are only partly canting. The scallop might stand for one of the southern branches of the Saint James Way (Lamego-Laza), which passes through the commune. St. James the Elder is also the local patron saint.
Source: Hiperglobal webpage
António Martins-Tuválkin, 11 Oct 2024
Published in Diário da República: III Série on 2 December 2005, confirmed in Diário da República: II Série on 18 April 2019, see here with a typo "em aspas" ("in quotation marks")
António Martins-Tuválkin, 11 Oct 2024
Soutelo de Aguiar was one of the 12 communes of Vila Pouca de Aguiar Municipality not affected by the 2013 changes ; it had 602 inhabitants in 2021 and covers 20,81 km².
António Martins-Tuválkin, 11 Oct 2024
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