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# Montalvão Commune (Portugal)

## Freguesia de Montalvão, Concelho de Nisa, Distrito de Portalegre

Last modified: 2026-07-18 by klaus-michael schneider
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2:3, image by António Martins-Tuválkin, 26 June 2026 | 2:3, image by António Martins-Tuválkin, 26 June 2026 |  |

- Montalvão Commune

- Flag
- Flag in Use
- Coat of Arms
- Presentation of Montalvão

- Former Commune (until 2013)

- Flag
- Coat of Arms
- Presentation of

See also:

- Nisa Municipality
- Portugal
- Portuguese WIKIPEDIA

## Montalvão Commune

### Flag

It is a typical Portuguese communal flag, (see left image above) with the coat of arms centred on a field quartered of white and blue.
Sources: Sérgio Horta´s webpage, here
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 8 Jan 2016

### Flag in Use

Other depictions of this flag (see right image above) unsurprisingly follow this interpretation with two shades of blue, such as the above mentioned embroidered patch by Lousã Têxtil. The flag on the photo also seems to be a blend of what is prescribed separately for the banner (estandarte) and for the hoisting flag (bandeira [de hastear]), as it is oblong at 2:3 but corded, with tassles and fringes, and sleeved to a spear.
Sources: communal webpage
António Martins-Tuválkin, 26 June 2026

### Coat of Arms

image by António Martins-Tuválkin and Sérgio Horta, 25 June 2026

Shield Azure, a craggy mound Argent, parted by a bar wavy Azure, crowned by a castle of the same masoned Sable with port and windows Gules having three embattled towers. The mountain is flanked by a branch of olive fructed Sable at dexter and a branch of oak fructed Vert at sinister both Or,in chief a bar wavy Argent. Mural crown Argent with four visible towers (town rank) and white scroll with inscription in black initials "MONTALVÃO".
Source: here
Meaning:
The word "montalvão" derives from the phrase "monte alvo_" (being, by surface analysis, juxtaposed and in the augmentative), meaning "white hill" — these arms being therefore canting.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 8 Jan 2016 and
António Martins-Tuválkin, 26 June 2026

Published in Diário da República: III Série on 5 June 1997, see here
António Martins-Tuválkin, 26 June 2026

### Presentation of Montalvão

Montalvão Commune is one of the seven communes of the Nisa Municipality; it had 442 inhabitants in 2011 and covers 123.9 km².
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 8 Jan 2016

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