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![[Baião municipality]](../images/p/pt-bao.gif)
2:3 image by Jorge Candeias, 23 July 1999
The flag is blue (light blue in my sources) with coat of arms centred.
Jorge Candeias, 9 Oct 1998
![[Baião municipality CoA]](../images/p/pt-bao).gif)
image by Sérgio Horta, 9 Oct 1998
The coat of arms is 100% typical: 4-towered mural crown (town rank), scroll reading "CONCELHO DE BAIÃO" and shield. The shield is blue with a wide golden bordure according to my sources , and is charged with a bunch of grapes surrounded by a laurel all in the same colour as the bordure, below 3 silver-blue-silver wavy lines. The bordure is charged with 8 blue castles with port and windows in the same colour as the border, disposed as the castles of the portuguese coat of arms.
Meaning:
The wavy lines stand for the Douro river and the bunch of grapes for the wine produced there, but the castles and the laurel are mysteries to me.
Jorge Candeias, 9 Oct 1998
Flag(?) and arms were approved on 20 January 1937.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 25 Aug 2014
Plain (monocoloured) Portuguese subnational flags are not allowed to have variations without arms: plain flags always carry the coat of arms.
Jorge Candeias, 18 July 1999
Baião is a town located in the north of Portugal. It belongs to the district of Porto (Oporto), old province of Douro Litoral, future eventual region of Entre Douro e Minho. The municipality is small both in area and in population: nearly 22 000 inhabitants and covering 175.7 km², but has quite a good number of communes 14 (in 2013). It’s economy is, as far as I know, rural. This town is located on the border between two regions of known wines: Oporto and Vinho Verde and the municipality is limited to the south by the Douro river.
Jorge Candeias, 9 Oct 1998
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