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# Tarouca e Dálvares United Commune (Portugal)

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Last modified: 2026-07-18 by klaus-michael schneider
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## União das Freguesias de Tarouca e Dálvares, Concelho de Tarouca, Distrito de Viseu

2:3, image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 26 May 2024

- Tarouca e Dálvares United Commune

- Flag
- Coat of Arms
- Presentation of Tarouca e Dálvares

- Former Tarouca Commune (until 2013)

- Flag
- Coat of Arms
- Presentation of Tarouca

- Former Dálvares Commune (until 2013)

- Flag
- Coat of Arms
- Presentation of Dálvares

See also:

- Tarouca Municipality
- Portugal
- Portuguese WIKIPEDIA

## Tarouca e Dálvares United Commune

### Flag

It is a typical Portuguese communal flag, with the coat of arms centred on a field quartered of white and green.
Source: Sérgio Horta´s webpage
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 26 May 2024

### Coat of Arms

Shield Vert with base wavy of Argent and Azure, an embattled tower Argent masoned Sable with port and windows Gules, surrounded in base by two elderflower branches Or leafed Gules with umbels of fruit Argent, with stems in saltire on base, on dexter chief a key Or and a key Argent in saltire tied Argent, on sinister chief a dove volant Argent. Mural crown with four visible towers (town rank) and white scroll reading in black upper case serifed letters "UNIÃO DAS FREGUESIAS DE TAROUCA E DALVARES".
Meaning:
Elderflower and dove are representing Dálvares, the keys Tarouca, the tower both.
Source: Sérgio Horta´s webpage
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 26 May 2024

Published in Diário da República: II Série on 4 November 2014, see here
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 26 May 2024

### Presentation of Tarouca e Dálvares

Tarouca e Dálvares is one of the three communes of Tarouca Municipality created by a merger during the 2013 changes. It had 4333 inhabitants in 2021 and covers 21,92 km².
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 26 May 2024

The commune was disestablished on 13 March 2025. Its two constituent communes were reinstated.
António Martins-Tuválkin,

### Former Tarouca Commune (until 2013)

#### Flag

2:3, image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 26 May 2024

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, 26 May 2024

#### Coat of Arms

Shield Vert, a key Or on fess point a key Argent in saltire tied Argent, flanked by four embattled towers Argent masoned Sable with port and windows Gules ordered 2:2. Mural crown with three visible towers (village rank) and white scroll reading in black upper case serifed letters "FREGUESIA DE TAROUCA".
Meaning:
The crossed keys are an attribute of St. Peter, the local patron saint.
Source: Hiperglobal webpage
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 26 May 2024

Published in Diário da República: III Série on 9 May 2000
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 26 May 2024

#### Presentation of Tarouca

Tarouca was one of the six communes of Tarouca Municipality affected by the 2013 changes. It had 556 inhabitants in 2011 and covered 19,68 km².
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 26 May 2024

### Former Dálvares Commune (until 2013)

#### Flag

2:3, image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 26 May 2024

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,

#### Coat of Arms

Shield Vert abased parted by a fess wavy Argent charged with a bar wavy Azure, an embattled tower Argent masoned Sable with port and windows Gules, flanked at dexter by an elderflower branch Or with umbel Argent, at sinister by a grape bunch Purpure leafed Or and on chief by a dove Argent nimbed Or. Mural crown with three visible towers (village rank) and white scroll reading in black upper case serifed letters "DALVARES - TAROUCA".
Meaning:
The dove is a representation of the Holy Spirit, the local patron saint.
Source: Hiperglobal webpage
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 26 May 2024

Published in Diário da República: II Série on 20 June 1997,
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 26 May 2024

#### Presentation of Dálvares

Dálvares was one of the six communes of Tarouca Municipality affected by the 2013 changes. It had 689 inhabitants in 2011 and covered 3,04 km².
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 26 May 2024

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