Olhão 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 Olhão

• Communes of Olhão
• Municipalities of Portugal
• Portugal

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

About the flag

On a green Field, a golden boat With silver sails (this type of boat is Called by the locals a "caique"),on silver and green waves, surmounted by a golden standing lion holding a black broken shekel, 5 silver tower mural crown (denoting that the Municipality capital is a City) and a white scroll with the words in black "CIDADE DE OLHÃO DA RESTAURAÇÃO". Yellow Flag.
Sérgio Horta, 03 Dec 1999

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 Olhão

Olhão is a city in south Portugal belonging to the district of Faro, Algarve region (in fact it distances 10 km east of Faro city). The municipality has 12 682 km² of area, 5 freguesias (communes) and about 35 000 inhabitants.
Sérgio Horta, 18 Oct 1999

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