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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 of white and green. The coat of arms is argent on an earthy rocky
mound proper a cork oak tree proper on a bordure sable eleven towers argent
litten and open gules. Mural crown argent with four visible towers (town rank)
and white scroll reading in black upper case letters "VILA DO SOBRAL DE
MONTE AGRAÇO".
António Martins, 16 Dec 2003
"Monte" means "hill" and "sobral" is "cork oak wood", so the
arms are fairily canting. (No idea about an "agraço" is.) The towers, I
guess, relate to the presence in this municipality of some of the fortresses of
a line erected in the early 19th cent to defend Lisbon from Napoleon’s
attempted invasions.
António Martins, 16 Dec 2003
Sobral de Monte Agraço municipality had 9051 inhabitants in 2000 (7160 in
1990), and it is divided in 3 communes, covering 52 km2. It
belongs to the District of Lisbon, to the old
province Extremadura and to the would-be region
Lisboa e Setúbal.
António Martins, 16 Dec 2003