Vila Flor e Nabo United Commune (Portugal)

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União das Freguesias de Vila Flor e Nabo, Concelho de Castro Daire, Distrito de Bragança

• Vila Flor e Nabo United Commune
• Flag
• Coat of Arms
• Presentation of Vila Flor e Nabo
• Former Vila Flor Commune (until 2013)
• Flag
• Coat of Arms
• Presentation of Vila Flor
• Former Nabo Commune (until 2013)
• Flag
• Coat of Arms
• Presentation of Nabo

• Vila Flor Municipality
• Portugal
• Portuguese WIKIPEDIA

Flag

It is a typical Portuguese communal flag with the coat of arms centred on a field quartered of purple and yellow.
Source: Sérgio Horta´s webpage
António Martins-Tuválkin, 5 Dec 2025

Coat of Arms

Shield Or a vault dome on three columns Sable, on chief a fleur-de-lis Gules flanked by two turnips Purple leafed Vert, on base two olive branches Vert fructed Sable with their proximal tips in saltire and tied Gules. Mural crown Argent with four visible towers (town rank) and white scroll reading in black upper case serifed letters "UNIÃO DAS FREGUESIAS DE VILA FLOR E NABO" set in two unequal lines, the lower reading the simple toponym in larger size.
Meaning:
The newly created arms are a hybrid of the previous ones — such as in this case, partially: The building and the (canting) lys from Vila Flor, the (canting) turnip and the olive branches (indirectly) from Nabo.
Sources: Sérgio Horta´s webpage
António Martins-Tuválkin, 5 Dec 2025

Published in Diário da República: II Série on 18 June 2024, see here
António Martins-Tuválkin, 5 Dec 2025

Presentation of Vila Flor e Nabo

Vila Flor e Nabo is one of the five communes of Vila Flor Municipality created by a merger during the 2013 changes. It had 2351 inhabitants in 2021 and covers 40,26 km².
António Martins-Tuválkin, 5 Dec 2025

Former Vila Flor Commune (until 2013)

Flag

It is a typical Portuguese communal flag, with the coat of arms centred on a plain purple field.
Source: Sérgio Horta´s webpage
António Martins-Tuválkin, 22 Jan 2024

Coat of Arms

Shield Or a vault dome Sable standing on three columns flanked in chief by two fleurs-de-lis Gules and in base by an eagle Purpure langued and armed Gules. Mural crown Argent with three visible towers (village rank) and white scroll reading in black upper case serifed letters "FREGUESIA DE VILA FLOR".
Meaning:
The fleurs de lis are canting for part of the toponym: "flor", meaning "flower" — analogous to the municipal coat of arms.The eagle comes from the Sampaio family coat-of-arms. The vault dome is after all a representation of a local Roman fountain, included as-is in the artwork.
Source: Hiperglobal webpage
António Martins-Tuválkin, 22 Jan 2024

Published in Diário da República: III Série on 13 July 2001,
António Martins-Tuválkin, 22 Jan 2024

Presentation of Vila Flor

Vila Flor was one of the ten communes of Vila Flor Municipality affected by the 2013 changes. It had 2269 inhabitants in 2011 and covered 32,20 km².
António Martins-Tuválkin, 22 Jan 2024

Former Nabo Commune (until 2013)

Flag

It is a typical Portuguese communal flag, with the coat of arms centred on a plain purple field.
Source: Sérgio Horta´s webpage
António Martins-Tuválkin, 22 Jan 2024

Coat of Arms

Shield Or two eradicated olive trees Vert fructed Sable in fess, in chief a turnip Purple leafed Vert, in base two Roman swords Sable in saltire. Mural crown Argent with three visible towers (village rank) and white scroll reading in black upper case serifed letters "NABO".
Meaning:
The Portuguese word "nabo" means "turnip" (as in the white neep, the edible root of Brassica napus aka sugar beet) and that is very funny, also because this word is a metaphor for a clumsy person, and also an unmentionable. It is not clear whether that is the actual etymology, but the turnip is at least punning.
Source: Hiperglobal webpage
António Martins-Tuválkin, 22 Jan 2024

Published in Diário da República: II Série on 3 November 2003
António Martins-Tuválkin, 22 Jan 2024

Presentation of Nabo

Nabo was one of the ten communes of Vila Flor Municipality affected by the 2013 changes. It had 144 inhabitants in 2011 and covered 10,46 km².
António Martins-Tuválkin, 22 Jan 2024

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