Gondomar Municipality (Portugal)

Last modified: 2014-06-29 by klaus-michael schneider
Keywords: gondomar | coat of arms: wreath | heart (blue) | heart: filligree | filligree | wheat ears: 8 | wheat ears: garland |
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• About the flag
• Version without the coat of arms
• Previous flag
• Presentation of Gondomar GDM
• Commune flags

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

About the flag

It is a fairily typical portuguese municipal flag, with the coat of arms centered on a blue and yellow gyronny (city rank) background. Flag and arms adopted and published in the official journal Diário da República : III Série in 1997.10.31, upon upgrade to city status in 1981.08.16, with trivial changes in the previous, town rank, flag and arms.
António Martins, 29 May 2007

The arms are Sable a filegree heart Or enameled Azure surrounded by a garland of eight wheat ears Or pointing clockwise. Mural crown argent with five visible towers (city rank) and white scroll reading in black upper case letters "Cidade de Gondomar".
António Martins, 29 May 2007 and 02 Jun 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

The previous, town rank, flag and arms, were adopted and published in the official journal Diário do Governo : I Série in 1938.04.29. These included the usual town attributes, four visible crown towers, "vila" instead of "cidade" on the scroll, and quartered flag, yellow and blue.
António Martins, 29 May 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 Gondomar

Gondomar municipality had 164 096 inhabitants in 2001 and consists of 12 communes covering 133,26 km². It is part of Porto District, traditional province Douro Litoral, 1999 ref. adm. region Entre Douro e Minho, C.C.R. / NUTS II Norte, and NUTS III Grande Porto.
António Martins, 29 May 2007

Commune flags

Melres

• Page about the flag
  reported by Dov Gutterman, 02 Jul 2001

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