Vinhais Municipality (Portugal)

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

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• Page about the municipal flag and coat of arms of Vinhais at Sérgio Horta’s website (in Portuguese).
  reported by Jorge Candeias, 29 Feb 1999
• Page about Vinhais at the Portuguese Municipalities’s Association website (incl. iimage 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 white and black quartered (town rank) background. The coat of arms is gules, a tower argent open sable between four bunches (?) of grapes of the same. Mural crown argent with four visible towers (town rank) and white scroll reading in black upper case letters "VILA DE VINHAIS". The coat of arms is partly canting, as "vinhais" is one of many words meaning "vineyards".
António Martins, 13 Jun 2000

Presentation of Vinhais

Vinhais municipality had 12 090 inhabitants in 1990, and it is divided in 35 communes, covering 710 km². It belongs to the Bragança District of and to the old province of Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro.
António Martins, 13 Jun 2000