Fundão Municipality (Portugal)

Last modified: 2014-08-22 by klaus-michael schneider
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• About the flag
• Version without coat of arms
• Previous flag
• Presentation of Fundão

• Fundão Communes
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• Page about the municipal flag and coat of arms of Fundão at Sérgio Horta’s website (in Portuguese).
  reported by Jorge Candeias, 29 Feb 1999
• Page about Fundão 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 centered on a plain green background. These flag and arms (still unofficial) are trivial changes upon upgrading to city status in 1988.04.14 from the original flag and arms, with five visible towers and scroll reading "Cidadde do Fundão".
António Martins, 28 Mar 2007 and 29 Mar 2007

Coat of arms

The arms are Argent within a representation of a gorge valley Vert and Sable charged with a wavy fess Azure fimbriated Argent a chestnut tree Vert fruited Or trunked and erradicated Sable between two bunches of three pears each Vert leaved and trunked of the Same. Mural crown argent with five visible towers (city rank) and white scroll reading in black upper case letters "Fundão".
António Martins, 28 Mar 2007

"Fundão" means something like "big deep" wich is shown in the arms.
António Martins, 28 Mar 2007

Version without the coat of arms

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

Previous flag

The current flag and arms are trivial changes upon upgrading to city status in 1988.04.14 from the original flag and arms (with only four visible towers) adopted and published in the official journal Diário do Governo : I Série in 1937.05.08.
António Martins, 28 Mar 2007

Version without coat of arms

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

Presentation of Fundão

Fundão municipality had 31 482 inhabitants in 2001 and consists of 31 communes covering 701,65 km². It is part of Castelo Branco District, traditional province Beira Baixa, 1999 ref. adm. region Beira Interior, C.C.R. / NUTS II Centro, and NUTS III Cova da Beira.
António Martins, 28 Mar 2007

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