Last modified: 2006-02-05 by antonio martins
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It is a quite typical portuguese municipal flag, with the coat of arms
centered on a background quarterly (meaning town
rank) of yellow and black. The coat of arms is argent, a wild boar
sable passant, under a large sword-cross of Santiago gules itself chaged
with a pelican or in his piety and flanqued by two towers sable with doors
and windows void, dexter and sinister two trees fruited or, domed vert and
trunked and rooted sable, in point a wavy fess azure. Mural crown argent
with four visible towers (town rank) and
white scroll reading in black upper case letters "VILA DE
GRÂNDOLA".
I have no special information about the coat of arms, except that the
Santiago Cross (here depicted in red instead
of purple, as usual in other coats of arms,
and charged with the pelican, yet another oddity) relates to the warrior monk
order of the same name. The wavy fess stands for the Sado river.
António Martins, 31 Jul 1999
Grândola municipality had 13 260 inhabitants in 1990, and it is
divided in 5 communes, covering 807 km2. It belongs to
the Setúbal District and to the old province
of Alentejo. The famous ballad Grândola,
vila morena, used to signal the beggining of the 1974.04.25
revolution, was indeed an ommage to this town.
António Martins, 31 Jul 1999 and 06 Aug 2001
