Cantanhede Municipality (Portugal)

Last modified: 2006-02-05 by antonio martins
Keywords: cantanhede | coat of arms: fleur-de-lis | tree | grapes (purple) | fleur-de-lis (yellow) | fleurs-de-lis: 2 | ring | gem |
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• About the flag
• Presentation of Cantanhede

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• Page about the municipal flag and coat of arms of Cantanhede at Sérgio Horta’s website (in Portuguese).
  reported by Jorge Candeias, 29 Feb 1999
• Page about Cantanhede 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 gyronny (city rank) of yellow and purple. The coat of arms is argent, a tree (what kind?) proper between two grapes, fruited purple; chief azure, a ring or between two fleurs-de-lis of the same. Mural crown argent with five visible towers (city rank) and white scroll reading in black upper case letters "CIDADE DE CANTANHEDE".
António Martins, 25 Feb 2000

The ring has a puple gemstone on it, turned upwards.
António Martins, 06 Sep 2003

Presentation of Cantanhede

Cantanhede municipality had 37 000 inhabitants in 1990, and it is divided in 19 communes, covering 397 km². It belongs to the Coimbra District and to the old province of Beira Litoral.
António Martins, 25 Feb 2000