Salvaterra de Magos Municipality (Portugal)

Last modified: 2006-02-05 by antonio martins
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• About the flag
• Presentation of Salvaterra de Magos

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• Page about the municipal flag and coat of arms of Salvaterra de Magos at Sérgio Horta’s website (in Portuguese).
  reported by Jorge Candeias, 29 Feb 1999
• Page about Salvaterra de Magos at the Portuguese Municipalities’s Association website (incl. image 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 blue and yellow. The coat of arms is azure, a bull chargeant (?) or, in chief a grapole of grapes, proper, between two bundles of three wheat ears or each. Mural crown argent with four visible towers (town rank) and white scroll reading in black upper case letters "VILA DE SALVATERRA DE MAGOS".
António Martins, 03 Aug 1999

The coat of arms seems to celebrate the local argriculture and pecuary successes, with no reference to the quite inspiring toponym: something like "Saved-town of Sorcerors"…
António Martins, 03 Aug 1999

Presentation of Salvaterra de Magos

Salvaterra de Magos municipality had 18 690 inhabitants in 1990, and it is divided in 6 communes, covering 245 km². It belongs to the Santarém District and to the old province of Ribatejo.
António Martins, 03 Aug 1999