Abrantes Municipality (Portugal)

Last modified: 2014-06-29 by klaus-michael schneider
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• About the flag
• Version without the coat of arms
• Presentation of Abrantes ABT
• Commune flags

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• Page about the municipal flag and coat of arms of Abrantes at Sérgio Horta’s website (in Portuguese).
  reported by Jorge Candeias, 29 Feb 1999
• Page about Abrantes at the Portuguese Municipalities’s Association website (incl. image of the arms)
  reported by António Martins, 18 Nov 2001

About the flag

The flag is a gyronny in dark blue and dark yellow, with the municipality’s arms at the centre. These consist of a silver mural crown with five towers at the top, a blue shield in the middle and a white scroll below with the name of the city in black. In the shield there is an 8-pointed white star, four yellow “thingies” that I don’t really know what they are (could be fleurs-de-lis from the napoleonic invasions. At some time, Abrantes was the headquarters of french troops; Or it can be some agricultural product), and 4 black waterbirds..
Jorge Candeias, 25 Aug 1997

Version without the coat of arms

Gyronny of yellow (gold) and (dark) blue.
Jorge Candeias, 08 Jul 1999

Presentation of Abrantes

This is alfabetically the first municipality in Portugal. Abrantes is a city that belongs to the district of Santarém and ancient province of Ribatejo. It is located on the right bank of the Tejo river, very close to the geographic centre of Portugal. Main economic resources (as far as I know) are agriculture and transforming industry.
Jorge Candeias, 25 Aug 1997

Commune flags

Pego Commune

It is a fairly typical portuguese communal flag, with the coat of arms centered on a plain yellow background. The banner should have golden and blue tassels and cord, and golden pole and spear finial. Flag and arms adopted and published in the official journal Diário da República : III Série in 2002.06.18.
António Martins, 18 May 2008

Arms detail

The arms are Azure a house Argent open Vert and covered Gules and in chief two olive branches in inverted chevron and on a base wavy Argent two barrulets Azure wavy. Mural crown argent with three visible towers (commune rank) and white scroll reading in black upper case letters "Pego - Abrantes". Original blazon:

Armas - Escudo de azul, com casa térrea de prata, aberta de verde e coberta de vermelho; em chefe, ramo de oliveira de ouro, frutado do mesmo; campanha de burelas ondadas de prata e azul. Coroa mural de prata de três torres. Listel branco, com a legenda a negro: "PEGO - ABRANTES". Bandeira - De amarelo, cordões e borlas de ouro e azul. Haste e lança de ouro.

Version without the coat of arms

Plain (monocolored) portuguese subnational flags are not allowed to have armless variations: plain flags always carry the coat of arms.
Jorge Candeias, 18 Jul 1999

Presentation of Pego

• Page about the communal flag and coat of arms of Pego at Sérgio Horta’s website (in Portuguese).
  reported by António Martins, 18 May 2008
• Pego, in the English Wikipedia
  reported by António Martins, 18 May 2008

Pego Commune is one of the 19 communes of Abrantes Municipality; it had 2570 inhabitants in 2001 and covers 36,08 km².
António Martins, 18 May 2008

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