This is the only example I have seen of a sundial on a flag (combining two of my interests) - are there any others ?

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Richard Mallett
Eaton Bray, Dunstable
South Beds. UK


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Subject: [Flags] (pt) Canedo Commune (Ribeira de Pena Municipality, Portugal)
Date:   Fri, 24 Sep 2010 02:19:30 +0100
From:   António MARTINS-Tuválkin <[email protected]>
Reply-To:       [email protected]
To:     FotW-ml <[email protected]>, FotW-ml <[email protected]>



It is a typical Portuguese communal flag, with the coat of arms centered
on a plain green background. The arms are Or a local barn Gules and in
chief a sundial Sable and issuant from a base wavy wavy Argent and Azure
a mound of three coupeaux Vert. Mural crown argent with four visible
towers (town rank) and white scroll reading in black upper case letters
"Canedo - Ribeira de Pena". The banner should have golden and green
tassels and cord, and golden pole with spear finial.

Flag and arms adopted and published in the official journal _Diário da
República : III Série_ in 2001.03.12: «Escudo de ouro, um espigueiro de
vermelho entre um relógio de sol de negro, realçado de prata, em chefe e
três montes de verde, firmados nos flancos e moventes de uma planície
ondada de prata e azul de quatro tiras. Coroa mural de prata de três
torres. Listel branco, com a legenda a negro: "CANEDO – RIBEIRA DE
PENA"».

See also<  http://www.fisicohomepage.hpg.ig.com.br/rpn-canedo.htm>, at
Sérgio Horta’s web site.

Images by Sérgio Horta,<pt-cdop).gif>  (CoA detail) and<pt-cdop.gif>
(flag), attached for our page<pt-rpn.html>.

Canedo Commune is one of the 7 communes of Ribeira de Pena Municipality
(q.v.); it had 3313 inhabitants in 2001 and covers 33,47 km². See also
<  http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canedo_%28Ribeira_de_Pena%29>.

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António MARTINS-Tuválkin                                            ____.
<[email protected]>

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