Chamusca Municipality (Portugal)

Last modified: 2006-02-05 by antonio martins
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• About the flag
• Presentation of Chamusca

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

About the flag

It is a quite typical portuguese municipal flag, with the coat of arms centered on a background quarterly (meaning town rank) of yellow and purple. The coat of arms is argent, a lion purple, armed azure, bordure sable charged with four vine grapes or, alterning with four grenates or fruited gules. Mural crown argent with four visible towers (town rank) and white scroll reading in black upper case letters "VILA DA CHAMUSCA" (sometimes, also "CÂMARA MUNICIPAL DA CHAMUSCA"). Arms, flag and seal aproved by gov. decree (portaria) nº 7819, in 1934.05.10, publ. in official journal Diário do Governo nº 108, Ist series.
António Martins, 19 Jul 1999

Presentation of Chamusca

Chamusca municipality had 11 960 inhabitants in 1990, and it is divided in 7 communes, covering 746 km². It belongs to the Santarém District and to the old province of Ribatejo.
António Martins, 19 Jul 1999