Sant Antoni de Vilamajor

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SANT ANTONI DE VILAMAJOR

Region : Catalonia
Province : Barcelona

Official blazon

Escut caironat truncat i semipartit: 1r. d'argent, una creu de sant Antoni patent i concavada de gules carregada d'una campaneta d'or sobre el peu; 2n. d'argent, una creu plena de gules; 3r. d'or, 4 pals de gules. Per timbre una corona mural de poble.

Origin/meaning

These arms have been officially granted on 31st January 1983.

The Tau cross and the bell are the attributes of St. Anthony, the local patron saint. The village show the arms of Barcelona (a cross Gules on Argent and the royal arms of Catalonia-Aragon, four pales Gules on Or), because Vilamajor (the traditional name of the village) was a "street of Barcelona" (a village with the same rights and privileges as the capital city), being part, until mid 19^th century, of Sant Pere de Vilamajor, a royal council, where the counts of Barcelona had a residential palace.