Creixomil (Guimarães)

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CREIXOMIL

Municipality : Guimarães
District : Braga

Official blazon

Escudo de verde, cruzeiro de ouro e ponte de prata, realçada de negro, de dois arcos de vãos diferentes; em ponta, ondado de prata e azul de três faixas. Coroa mural de prata de três torres. Listel branco, com a legenda a negro: “CREIXOMIL”.

Origin/meaning

The arms were officially granted on June 12, 2013.

The arms show the local bridge, which supposedly dates from Roman times, over the Selho river on the road from Guimarães to Porto.

Above the bridge is the monument Padrão de S.Lázaro (monument of St. Lazarus) in the town, a historical landmark.

The Roman bridge

The monument of St. Lazarus

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