Castro Verde 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 Castro Verde
• Commune flags

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• Page about the municipal flag and coat of arms of Castro Verde at Sérgio Horta’s website (in Portuguese).
  reported by Jorge Candeias, 29 Feb 1999
• Page about Castro Verde at the Portuguese Municipalities’s Association website (incl. image of the arms)
  reported by António Martins, 18 Nov 2001
• Castro Verde, at the English Wikipedia
  reported by António Martins, 14 Nov 2007

About the flag

It is a fairly typical portuguese municipal flag, with the coat of arms centered on white and red quarterly (town rank) background. Flag and arms adopted and published in the official journal Diário da República : III Série in 1986.12.10.
António Martins, 14 Nov 2007

The arms are Argent a castle Vert litten Gules above a pick Sable per pale on two wheat ears Or set per saltire and under five escutcheons Azure per cross with the lateral ones pointing to the center and each charged with five plates (quinas cross) in the dexter chief and a Saint James cross Gules in the sinister chief. Mural crown argent with four visible towers (town rank) and white scroll reading in black upper case letters "Município de Castro Verde".
António Martins, 14 Nov 2007

"Castro verde" means "green castle" (or rather, "castrum") and the arms thus canting.
António Martins, 14 Nov 2007

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 Castro Verde

Castro Verde municipality had 7603 inhabitants in 2001 and consists of 5 communes covering 567,31 km². It is part of Beja District, traditional province and and NUTS III Baixo Alentejo, 1999 ref. adm. region and C.C.R. / NUTS II Alentejo.
António Martins, 21 Mar 2007

Commune flags

Castro Verde Commune

It is a quite typical portuguese communal flag, with the coat of arms centered on a plain green background. The coat of arms is argent issuant from a base sable charged with a fess or a cork oak vert below five escutcheons azure set in cross each charged with eleven plates set 3+2+3+2+1 (Portugal ancient). Mural crown argent with three visible towers (urban commune rank) and white scroll reading in black upper case letters "Freguesia de Castro Verde". Arms and flag approved by law of 1998.02.04.
António Martins, 01 Jun 2006

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

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