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# Viatodos, Grimancelos, Minhotães e Monte de Fralães United Commune (Portugal)

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Last modified: 2026-07-18 by klaus-michael schneider
Keywords: viatodos | grimancelos | minhotaes | monte de fralaes | axe | milestone | arm(winged) | windmill(wheel) | kite | cross | tower | rooster |
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## União das Freguesias de Viatodos, Grimancelos, Minhotães e Monte de Fralães, Concelho de Barcelos, Distrito de Braga

- Viatodos, Grimancelos, Minhotães e Monte de Fralães United Commune
- Former Viatodos Commune (until 2013)

- Flag
- Coat of Arms
- Presentation of Viatodos

- Former Grimancelos Commune (until 2013)

- Flag
- Coat of Arms
- Presentation of Grimancelos

- Former Minhotães Commune (until 2013)

- Flag
- Coat of Arms
- Presentation of Minhotães

- Former Monte de Fralães Commune (until 2013)

- Flag
- Coat of Arms
- Presentation of Monte de Fralães

See also:

- Barcelos Municipality
- Portugal
- Portuguese WIKIPEDIA

## Viatodos, Grimancelos, Minhotães e Monte de Fralães United Commune

The commune either has not yet proper symbols or they are unknown.
Source: Sérgio Horta´s webpage
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 17 Feb 2025

### Former Viatodos Commune (until 2013)

#### Flag

2:3, image by Sérgio Horta, 17 May 2016

It is a typical Portuguese communal flag, with the coat of arms centred on a plain white field.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 17 May 2016

#### Coat of Arms

Shield Vert a fess Argent, charged with a prehistorical axe Vert, called "the axe of Viatodos", in chief a crown Or between a grapevine Or at dexter and a corn cob Or at sinister, in base a milestone Argent. Mural crown Argent with three visible towers (village rank) and white scroll with inscription in black capitals "VIATODOS".
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 17 May 2016

Published in Diário da República: III Série on 5 July 1995
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 17 May 2016

#### Presentation of Viatodos

Viatodos was one of the 44 communes of Barcelos Municipality affected by the 2013 changes. It had 1840 inhabitants in 2011 and covered 4,2 km².
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 17 May 2016

### Former Grimancelos commune (until 2013)

#### Flag

2:3, image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 17 Feb 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, 17 Feb 2025

#### Coat of Arms

image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 17 Feb 2025

Shield Vert, on base a winged arm Argent with sleeve Or holding a pen of the same, on dexter chief point a millstone Argent, on sinister chief point a windmill wheel Or with vanes and cord Argent. Mural crown Argent with three visible towers (village rank) and white scroll with inscription in black capitals "GRIMANCELOS".
Meaning:
The winged hand with pen is an attribute St. Matthew the Evangelist, the local patron saint. Millstone and mill wheel are alluding to agriculture and the production of cereals.
Sources: here and here
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 17 May 2016

Published in Diário da República: II Série on 16 January 2009
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 17 May 2016

#### Presentation of Grimancelos

Grimancelos was one of the 44 communes of Municipality affected by the 2013 changes. It had 791 inhabitants in 2011 and covered 3,0 km².
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 17 May 2016

### Former Minhotães commune (until 2013)

#### Flag

2:3, image by Klaus-Michael Schneider,

It is a typical Portuguese communal flag, with the coat of arms centred on a plain blue field.
Source: Sérgio Horta´s webpage
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 18 Feb 2025

#### Coat of Arms

image by Sérgio Horta, 17 May 2016

Shield Argent with base wavy of Azure and Argent a red kite volant Sable garnished Or and armed Gules, on dexter chief an orbicular cross Gules, on sinister chief a cross patty Gules charged with a Greek cross Argent. Mural crown Argent with three visible towers (village rank) and short white scroll, in Bénard-Guedes style, with inscription in black capitals "MINHOTÃES".
Meaning:
The kite (Portuguese : milhafre or minhotÃ£o , Latin: Milvus milvus) is a canting element. The orbicular cross is that one of the Order of the Temple, the cross patty that one of the Order of the Knights of Christ.
Source: this webpage
Klaus-Michael Schneider,18 Feb 2025

Published in Diário da República: III Série on 20 April 2006
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 17 May 2016

#### Presentation of Minhotães

Minhotães was one of the 44 communes of Municipality affected by the 2013 changes. It had 775 inhabitants in 2011 and covered 3,6 km².
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 17 May 2016

### Former Monte de Fralães commune (until 2013)

#### Flag

2:3, image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 17 May 2016

It is a typical Portuguese communal flag, with the coat of arms centred on a plain blue field.
Source: Sérgio Horta´s webpage
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 17 May 2016

#### Coat of Arms

image by António Martins-Tuválkin and Sérgio Horta, 27 June 2026

Shield Argent, issuant from base a mountain Vert, crowned by an embattled tower sable, masoned Argent with port and windows Or, flanked by a rooster Gules at dexter and a crescent recumbent Azure at sinister. Mural crown Argent with three visible towers (village rank) and white scroll with inscription in black capitals "MONTE DE FRALÃES".
Meaning:
Rooster and crescent are representing courage, vigilance and the victory over the Moors. The tower is reminding on the so called "loft of the Correias". The commune´s history is connected with that one of the Correias kin, whose first chief had been Dom Paio Ramires, a rich noblemamn in times of King Afonso VI of Leon. His successor was Dom Soeiro Pais Correia, who fought the Moors in Montemor-o-Velho.
Source: Sérgio Horta´s webpage
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 17 May 2016 and António Martins-Tuválkin, 27 June 2026

Published in Diário da República: III Série on 24 June 2004, see here
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 17 May 2016

#### Presentation of Monte de Fralães

Monte de Fralães was one of the 44 communes of Municipality affected by the 2013 changes. It had 408 inhabitants in 2011 and covered 1,6 km².
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 17 May 2016

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