Mourão Municipality (Portugal)

Last modified: 2007-06-09 by antónio martins
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• About the flag
• Version without the coat of arms
• Presentation of Mourão

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

About the flag

On a blue field, a gold castle surmounted by a silver shield charged with 5 quinas (with 5 silver circles each) displayed like a cross, on the upper left canton a gold smiling sun, on the upper right canton a silver crescent moon, 4 silver tower mural crown and a white scroll with the words in black "C. M. MOURÃO". 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 Mourão

One more portuguese municipal flag this time is "Mourão". This is a Town belongs to Évora District has a 280 km² area, 3 freguesias (communes) and about 3730 inhabitants.
Sérgio Horta, 26 Oct 1999

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