Anadia Municipality (Portugal)

Concelho de Anadia, Distrito de Aveiro

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• About the Flag
• Former Flag reported 1998
• Version without the coat of arms
• Presentation of Anadia

• Anadia Communes
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• Page about Anadia at the Portuguese Municipalities’s Association website (incl. image of the arms)
  reported by António Martins, 18 Nov 2001

About the Flag

It is a fairly typical Portuguese municipal flag, with the coat of arms centred on a field gyronny of eight of purple and white (city rank).

António Martins-Tuválkin,

4-towered mural crown, scroll reading "ANADIA" and a black shield with a weirdly stylized vine in (somewhat) natural colours.
Meaning:
The meaning of this coat of arms is simple: Anadia belongs to a natural region known as Bairrada, famous in Portugal through it’s wines and the way, they cook pork. So, the only thing missing in the coat of arms is a piglet.
Jorge Candeias, 13 July 1998

Former Flag reported 1998

The flag is (again and boringly) typical: quarterly divided white over a reddish purple (so called wine colour, I suppose the official documentation simply say "purple"), and with a typical coat of arms in the centre:
Jorge Candeias, 13 July 1998

Version without Coat of Arms

Presentation of Anadia

Anadia is a town located in the south of the district of Aveiro, old province and eventually future administrative region of Beira Litoral. The municipality has an area of 217,1 km² and about 29 000 inhabitants distributed in 15 communes.

Jorge Candeias, 13 July 1998

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