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It is a quite typical portuguese municipal flag,
with the coat of arms centered on a gyronny background
(city rank) of red and white.
Flag and arms adopted and published in the official journal
Diário da República : III
Série in 1987.05.12 (this is the latest legal regulation of the
flag and arms; both have been in use since much earlier).
António Martins, 12 Dec 2006
I’ve known these arms and flag all my life [long before 1987], but
I have no data on adoption date. I guess it’s something that emerged in
the 1930’s, like so many other portuguese municipal symbols.
Jorge Candeias, 12 Dec 2006
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The arms are azure issuant from a wavy counterchief vert charged with three
wavy fesslets a two-towered castle argent masoned sable charged on each tower
with an eacutcheon azure five plates and between the towers the Virgin Mary
clad argent and manteled azure and nimbused or standing on a cescent argent and
in dexter canton an estoile or. Mural crown argent with five visible towers
(city rank) and white scroll reading in black
upper case letters "CIDADE DE FARO".
António Martins, 12 Dec 2006
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
Faro municipality has a gyronny flag, usual for Portuguese municipal flags
seated in a city.
This photo, taken last year, shows as
atop of local lagoonside Hotel Eva, along with national,
European Union, guests countries’
(Britain adequately visible on the photo) and hotel
company flags, there was the Faro municipal flag, but without the arms.
Although the relevant law allows
bicolor flags to be coat-of-arms-less, that practice is either very common
or not at all in any given municipality, reflecting deepset habits of local
authorities and flag manufactors and retailers. Faro is reportedly one of the
latter, the sight of an armless flag being worth of a snapshot: This flag was
hoisted upside-down, which is another possible reason for any reluctance
using these coat-of-arms-less flags.
António Martins, 11 Dec 2006
Faro municipality, in the southernmost tip of mainland Portugal, had
58 305 inhabitants in 2000, and it is divided in 6
communes, covering 201,6 km². It is part of
Faro District, traditional province, 1999 ref. adm.
region, current C.C.R. / NUTS II, and NUTS III
Algarve.
António Martins, 11 Dec 2006 and 12 Dec 2006
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