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![[Ardegão, Freixo e Mato commune flag]](../images/p/pt-ptlaf.gif)
2:3, image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 2 Apr 2025
It is a typical Portuguese communal flag, with the coat of arms centred on a plain white field.
Source: Sérgio Horta´s webpage
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 2 Apr 2025
![[Ardegão, Freixo e Mato commune CoA]](../images/p/pt-ptlaf).gif)
image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 2 Apr 2025
Shield Azure with base wavy of Argent and Azure, a tower Argent masoned Sable with port and windows Gules, flanked by two oak twigs Or fructed Gules, on chief an eagle Or. Mural crown Argent with three visible towers (village rank) and white scroll reading in black upper case serifed letters "FREGUESIA DE ARDEGÃO, FREIXO E MATO".
Meaning:
The eagle is taken from the arms of the former Ardegão Commune, the tower from those of the former Freixo Commune and the twigs from those of the former Mato Commune.
Source: Sérgio Horta´s webpage
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 2 Apr 2025
Published in Diário da República: II Série on 2 June 2016
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 2 Apr 2025
Ardegão, Freixo e Mato is one of the nine communes of Ponte de Lima Municipality created by a merger during the 2013 changes. It had 1551 inhabitants in 2021 and covers 10,72 km².
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 2 Apr 2025
![[Ardegão commune (- 2013)]](../images/p/pt-ptlaf-ag.gif)
2:3, image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 19 Mar 2015
It is a typical Portuguese communal flag, with the coat of arms centred on a plain yellow field.
Source: Sérgio Horta´s webpage
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 19 Mar 2015
Shield Gules, an eagle Or with spread wings between two bars wavy Argent both charged with a barrulet wavy Azure, in chief a heraldic rose Argent barbed and seeded Vert. Mural crown with three visible towers (village rank) and white scroll with inscription in black initials: "ARDEGÃO - PONTE DE LIMA".
Meaning:
The rose is an attribute of Our Lady of Expectation, the local patron saint.
Source: Sérgio Horta´s webpage
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 19 Mar 2015
Published in Diário da República: III Série on December 20022 , draft of flag and arms made by Carlos Alberto Mouteira Fernandes.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 19 Mar 2015
Ardegão was one of the 21 communes of Ponte de Lima Municipality affected by the 2013 changes. It had 233 inhabitants in 2011 and covered 3,02 km².
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 19 Mar 2015
![[Freixo commune (- 2013)]](../images/p/pt-ptlaf-fx.gif)
2:3, image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 19 Mar 2015
It is a typical Portuguese communal flag, with the coat of arms centred on a plain yellow field.
Source: Sérgio Horta´s webpage
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 19 Mar 2015
Shield Azure, an ash tree eradicated Or at dexter and a tower Argent masoned Sable with port and windows Gules at sinister, in base two ears of wheat Or crossed per saltire. Mural crown with three visible towers (village rank) and and white scroll with inscription in black initials: "FREIXO - PONTE DE LIMA".
Meaning:
The ash tree (Portuguese: freixo) is a canting element.
Source: Sérgio Horta´s webpage
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 19 Mar 2015
Published in Diário da República: II Série on 20 July 1999
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 19 Mar 2015
Freixo was one of the 21 communes of Ponte de Lima Municipality affected by the 2013 changes. It had 1214 inhabitants in 2011 and covered &5,44nbsp;km².
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 19 Mar 2015
![[Mato commune (- 2013)]](../images/p/pt-ptlaf-ma.gif)
2:3, image by Sérgio Horta, 6 July 2008
It is a fairly typical Portuguese communal flag, with the coat of arms centred on a plain blue field .
Source: Sérgio Horta´s webpage
António Martins-Tuválkin,, 6 July 2008
![[Mato commune CoA (- 2013)]](../images/p/pt-ptlaf-ma).gif)
image by Sérgio Horta, 6 July 2008
The arms are Argent a grill Azure set per pale and two oak branches Vert fruited Or all set in chevron. Mural crown argent with three visible towers (village rank) and white scroll reading in black upper case letters "MATO - PONTE DE LIMA".
Meaning:
"Mato" means bush, which may be canting for the oak branches. Perennial, thorny bush named carrascal very often in Portugal consists of thorny shrub Kermes Oak (Latin: Quercus coccifera). The grill stands for St. Lawrence, Catholic patron of the commune (or rather of the Catholic parish from which the commune was devised). The coat of arms (and the flag) was devised by Carlos Alberto Mouteira Fernandes. Authorship information is not given in the official sources.
Source: Sérgio Horta´s webpage
António Martins-Tuválkin, 6 July 2008
Published in Diário da República: III Série on 6 June 2002
António Martins-Tuválkin, 6 July 2008
Mato was one of the 21 communes of Ponte de Lima Municipality affected by the 2013 changes. It had 285 inhabitants in 2001 and covered 2,50 km².
António Martins-Tuválkin, 6 July 2008
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