Moita Municipality (Portugal)

Last modified: 2006-02-05 by antonio martins
Keywords: moita | coat of arms: tree | bush | grapes | cross: saint james (purple) | canting |
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• About the flag
• Presentation of Moita

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• Page about the municipal flag and coat of arms of Moita at Sérgio Horta’s website (in Portuguese).
  reported by Jorge Candeias, 29 Feb 1999
• Page about Moita 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 green. The coat of arms is argent above a bush crowned vert trunked sable and fruited or a St. James sword-cross purple between two bunches of grapes fruited of the same and leaved of the first. Mural crown argent with four visible towers (town rank) and white scroll reading in black upper case letters "VILA DE MOITA".
António Martins, 16 Dec 2003

"Moita" means "bush" in Portuguese thus these being canting arms.
António Martins, 16 Dec 2003

Presentation of Moita

Moita municipality had 67 485 inhabitants in 2000 (66 840 in 1990), and it is divided in 6 communes, covering 55 km². It belongs to the District of Setúbal, to the old province Estremadura and to the would-be region Lisboa e Setúbal.
António Martins, 16 Dec 2003