Murça Municipality (Portugal)

Concelho de Murça, Distrito de Vila Real

Last modified: 2014-10-30 by klaus-michael schneider
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• About the Flag
• Version without Coat of Arms
• Presentation of Murça

• Murça Communes
• Portugal

• Page about Murça at the Portuguese Municipalities’s Association website (incl. image of the arms)
  reported by António Martins, 18 Nov 2001
• Murça at the English Wikipedia
  reported by António Martins, 20 Jun 2007

About the Flag

It is a fairly typical Portuguese municipal flag, with the coat of arms centred on a yellow and black quarterly field.

António Martins-Tuválkin, 20 June 2007

The arms are Argent an olive tree vert fruited, stalked and eradicated Sable between two bunches of grapes Or leavedVert, in chief Sable a representation of the “Murça sow” megalith Argent. Mural crown Argent with four visible towers (town rank) and white scroll reading in black upper case letters ""
Meaning:
The “Murça sow” is an ancient sculpture, from the lower Neolithic period. They call it a sow but it portraits a male animal, either a boar of perhaps a bear. On an image the Wikimedia Commons (context) you can see it in greater detail and how tackyness prevails: Unearth a thousands-year old carving and tow it to the town’s square up on a late 19th century pedestal.
António Martins-Tuválkin, 20/21 June 2007

Flag and arms adopted and published in the official journal Diário do Governo : I Série on 12 March 1936
António Martins-Tuválkin, 20 June 2007

Version without Coat of Arms

Presentation of Murça

Murça municipality had 6752 inhabitants in 2001 and consists of 9 communes covering 189,36 km². It is part of Vila Real District, traditional province and 1999 ref. adm. region Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, C.C.R. / NUTS II Norte, and NUTS III Alto Trás-os-Montes.
António Martins-Tuválkin, 20 June 2007

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