Sintra Municipality (Portugal)

Last modified: 2006-02-05 by antonio martins
Keywords: sintra | coat of arms (tower) | tower (yellow) | crescent: points up | stars: 2 | star: 5 points (white) |
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• About the flag
• Scroll-less variation

• Communes of Sintra:
  • Agualva-Cacém Commune
• Municipalities of Portugal
• Portugal

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

About the flag

The flag is quartered yellow over blue, and the coat of arms is red, on a rocky mount vert lined sable, a castle tower gold lit and opened blue, between two crescents argent pointing upwards and two five pointed stars of the same. This of course represents the local rocky hills, of mystical past and weird meteorology, and its moorish castle.
António Martins, 06 Mar 1998

Scroll-less variation

A quite frequent variation without scroll. Scroll-less flags and coats of arms can be seen even in official municipal buildings and printed material. As far as I know, the only other portuguese municipality doing this is the neighbouring Cascais.
António Martins, 06 Mar 1998