Póvoa de Lanhoso Municipality (Portugal)

Last modified: 2006-09-30 by antónio martins
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• About the flag
• Version without the coat of arms
• Presentation of Póvoa de Lanhoso

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

About the flag

Flag: Yellow, coat of arms in the center. Arms: gueles, on a cross throughout azure fimbriated argent cornered by heart shaped filigrane hearts or, a castle tower or, argent mural crown of four towers (town status), argent scroll reading "VILA DA PÓVOA DE LANHOSO".
António Martins, 03 Oct 1998

Version without the coat of arms

Plain (monocolored) portuguese subnational flags are not allowed to have armless variations: plain flags always carry the coat of arms.
Jorge Candeias, 18 Jul 1999

Presentation of Póvoa de Lanhoso

This municipality has 21 810 inhabitants in 132 km² and belongs to the old province of Minho, to the region to be of Entre-Douro-e-Minho and to the current Braga District.
António Martins, 03 Oct 1998

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