
Last modified: 2015-08-31 by klaus-michael schneider
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![[Maceda commune]](../images/p/pt-ovrma.gif) 2:3 image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 31 Aug 2015
2:3 image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 31 Aug 2015
It is a typical Portuguese communal flag, with the coat of arms centred on a field quartered of green and white.
Source: Ribeirinhas TV online (photo on occasion of a municipal party council)
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 31 Aug 2015 
![[Maceda commune 1997]](../images/p/pt-ovrma1.gif) 2:3 image by Sérgio Horta, 31 Mar 2010
2:3 image by Sérgio Horta, 31 Mar 2010
It is a slightly untypical Portuguese communal flag, with the coat of arms centred on a plain yellow field, unusual insofar as colour of sheet and base colour of arms both are light.
António Martins-Tuválkin, 31 Mar 2010 
![[Maceda commune CoA]](../images/p/pt-ovrma).gif) image by Sérgio Horta, 31 Mar 2010
image by Sérgio Horta, 31 Mar 2010 
The arms are Argent a cross Maltese Gules and in chief two apple tree twigs Vert fruited Gules and garnished Or and a base wavy Vert and Argent of four per fess. Mural crown argent with four visible towers  (town rank) and white scroll reading in black upper
case letters "MACEDA". 
Meaning:
"Maceda" appears to be related to "maçã" (="apple"), making the arms partly canting. 
António Martins-Tuválkin, 31 Mar 2010 
Monochrome flag according to Sérgio Horta published in the official journal Diário da República: III Série on 16 October 1997
António Martins-Tuválkin, 31 Mar 2010 
Maceda Commune is one of the five communes of Ovar Municipality (q.v.); it had 3521 inhabitants in 2011 and covers 15.3 km². 
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 31 Aug 2015
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