Cartaxo Municipality (Portugal)

Concelho de Cartaxo, Distrito de Santarém

Last modified: 2015-04-18 by klaus-michael schneider
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• About the Flag
• Old Flag (1936 - 1996)
• Version without Coat of Arms
• Presentation of Cartaxo

• Cartaxo Communes
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• Page about Cartaxo 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 fairly typical Portuguese municipal flag, with the coat of arms centred on a field gyronny (meaning city rank) of purple and white.
António Martins-Tuválkin, 19 July 1999

The coat of arms is Or, a rose Gules between two ogival inescutcheons Azure charged with 11 plates in 3:2:3:2:1, all entangled in two vines, one fruited Or and the other Purpure, both leaved Vert. Mural crown Argent with five visible towers (city rank) and white scroll reading in black upper case letters "CIDADE DO CARTAXO". Meaning:
The central rose is symbolizing the Celestial Queen Mary, the local patron saint. The nation wide fame of Cartaxo’s wines is well represented on the coat of arms. The two shields refer to 'Old Portugal' (Portugal ancient) and King D.Dinis, who granted the first city rights in 1312. The golden colour of the shield is symbolizing nobility, faith, power and freedom.
António Martins-Tuválkin and Ralf Hartemink, 19 July 1999

Flag and arms published in the official journal Diário da República: III Série on 25 January 1996. The arms were officially approved on 1 March 1936 and again on 1 January 1996 because Cartaxo gained again the rank of a city on 19 June 1995.
António Martins-Tuválkin and Ralf Hartemink, 19 July 1999

Old Flag (1936-1996)

It is a fairly typical Portuguese municipal flag, with the coat of arms centred on a field quartered of white and purple. The mural crown of the arms had four visible towers instead of five.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 19 Apr 2015

Version without Coat of Arms

Presentation of Cartaxo

Cartaxo municipality had 22 180 inhabitants in 1990, and it is divided in six communes, covering 158 km². It belongs to the Santarém District and to the old province of Ribatejo.
António Martins-Tuválkin, 19 July 1999 / 18 Apr 2015

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