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klaus-michael schneider
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![[Mizarela, Pero Soares e Vila Soeiro united commune flag]](../images/p/pt-grdms.gif)
2:3, image by António Martins-Tuválkin and Sérgio Horta, 7 Dec 2025
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, 7 Dec 2025
![[ united commune CoA]](../images/p/pt-grdms).gif)
image by António Martins-Tuválkin and Sérgio Horta, 7 Dec 2025
Shield Or three olive twigs Vert fructed Sable arrayed in fess,
on chief a blackbird Sable volant animated Gules beaked Or and bringing on its beak a pair of cherries Gules stemmed Vert,
issuant from flanches and base wavy Azure, charged with a bar wavy Argent, a three-arch bridge Sable masoned Argent.
Mural crown Argent with three visible towers (village rank) and white scroll reading
in black upper case serifed letters "UNIÃO DAS FREGUESIAS DE MIZARELA, PÊRO SOARES E VILA SOEIRO",
arrayed in two embowed lines with the actual name in larger initials.
Meaning:
As usual for these new communes with hybrid toponyms created in 2012 by joining two or more pre-existing communes,
in a time when most of them had already established flags and coats of arms, the newly created arms are also themselves a hybrid of those previous ones,
such as in this case: The bird from Mizarela, the twigs from Pêro Soares, and the bridge from both.
The bridge is a representation of an actual local bridge, suitably stylised,
situated at the former boundary line between Pêro Soares and Vila Soeiro, over a very upstream stretch of the Mondego River,
see this photo
Sources: Sérgio Horta´s webpage
António Martins-Tuválkin, 7 Dec 2025
Published in Diário da República: II Série on 2 October 2024, see here
António Martins-Tuválkin, 7 Dec 2025
Mizarela, Pêro Soares e Vila Soeiro is one of the nine communes of Guarda Municipality created by a merger during the 2013 changes. It had 200 inhabitants in 2021 and covers 14,02 km².
António Martins-Tuválkin, 7 Dec 2025
![[Mizarela commune flag (until 2013)]](../images/p/pt-grdms-mz.gif)
2:3, image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 28 Sep 2024
It is a typical Portuguese communal flag, with the coat of arms centred on a plain red field.
Source: Sérgio Horta´s webpage
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 28 Sep 2024
Shield Argent with base wavy of Azure and Argent, issuant from base a throughout bridge Sable masoned Argent, on chief a blackbird volant Sable with beak Or and eye Gules, holding a pair of cherries proper by his beak. Mural crown Argent with three visible towers (village rank) and short white scroll, in Bénard Guedes style, reading in black upper case serifed letters "MIZARELA".
Source: Hiperglobal webpage
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 28 Sep 2024
Published in Diário da República: II Série on 20 June 2011
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 28 Sep 2024
Mizarela was one of the 18 communes of Guarda Municipality affected by the 2013 changes. It had 135 inhabitants in 2011 and covered 5,53 km².
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 28 Sep 2024
![[Pêro Soares commune flag (until 2013)]](../images/p/pt-grdms-ps.gif)
2:3, image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 28 Sep 2024
It is a typical Portuguese communal flag, with the coat of arms centred on a plain green field.
Source: Sérgio Horta´s webpage
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 28 Sep 2024
Shield Or with base wavy of Azure and Argent, issuant from base a throughout bridge Sable masoned Argent, on chief a coronet Gules with pearls Argent, abased flanked by two olive twigs Vert in pale fruited Sable. Mural crown Argent with three visible towers (village rank) and white scroll reading in black upper case serifed letters "PÊRO SOARES".
br>Source: Hiperglobal webpage
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 28 Sep 2024
Published in Diário da República: II Série on 17 July 2007
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 28 Sep 2024
Pero Soares, until 1990 Pêro Soares, was one of the 18 communes of Guarda Municipality affected by the 2013 changes. It had 70 inhabitants in 2011 and covered 2,86 km².
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 28 Sep 2024
Vila Soeiro was not granted official arms and flag before its disestablishment.
It was one of the 18 communes of Guarda Municipality affected by the 2013 changes. It had 41 inhabitants in 2011 and covered 5,63 km².
Source: Hiperglobal webpage
António Martins-Tuválkin, 7 Dec 2025
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