Torres Vedras 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 Torres Vedras

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

About the flag

On white, the municipal coat of arms. Gules, a castle argent, flagged and roofed of the same, litten black, under an eschuteon of Portugal ancien between two stars argent. Mural crown argent, with five towers (city rank) and white scroll with black letters reading "CIDADE DE TORRES VEDRAS" (Torres Vedras city).
António Martins, 30 Nov 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 Torres Vedras

Torres Vedras is located in the Lisbon District, old province of Estremadura, covering 406 km² in 19 communes with 67 420 inhabitants.
António Martins, 30 Nov 1998

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