Cartaxo Municipality (Portugal)

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

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• Page about the municipal flag and coat of arms of Cartaxo at Sérgio Horta’s website (in Portuguese).
  reported by Jorge Candeias, 29 Feb 1999
• Page about Cartaxo 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 (meaning city rank) of purple and white. The coat of arms is or, a rose gules between two ogival escuteons azure, charged with 11 bezants argent in 3+2+3+2+1, all entangled in two vines, one fruited or and the other purple, both leaved vert. Mural crown argent with five visible towers (city rank) and white scroll reading in black upper case letters "CIDADE DO CARTAXO".
António Martins, 19 Jul 1999

The nation wide fame of Cartaxo’s wines is well represented on the coat of arms.
António Martins, 19 Jul 1999

Presentation of Cartaxo

Cartaxo municipality had 22 180 inhabitants in 1990, and it is divided in 8 communes, covering 158 km². It belongs to the Santarém District and to the old province of Ribatejo.
António Martins, 19 Jul 1999