Ponte de Lima Municipality (Portugal)

Last modified: 2006-02-05 by antonio martins
Keywords: ponte de lima | coat of arms | cross: fleury (golden) | bridge: 3 arches | tower (golden) | towers: 2 | waves: 3 | river lima |
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• About the flag
• Presentation of Ponte de Lima

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

About the flag

Arms: On a blue field a gold four arches bridge standing on waves silver - blue - silver - blue over the bridge a gold cross sided by 2 towers. Four silver towers mural crown, white scroll with the lettering "VILA DE PONTE DE LIMA". Flag: yellow over purple
Sérgio Horta, 29 Dec 1999

Presentation of Ponte de Lima

This is a town that belongs to Viana do Castelo district (Minho province) has a 321 km² area, 51 freguesias (communes) and about 45 000 inhabitants.
Sérgio Horta, 29 Dec 1999