Murça Commune (Portugal)

Freguesia de Murça, Concelho de Murça, Distrito de Vila Real

Last modified: 2016-01-30 by klaus-michael schneider
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• About the flag
• Presentation of Murça

• Murça Municipality
• Portugal

About the Flag

It is a typical Portuguese communal flag, with the coat of arms centred on a plain black field, perhaps the only Portuguese communal flag having this colour, reported by Jens Pattke on 19 December 2015.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 6 Jan 2016

Shield Or with base wavy of Azure and Argent, issuant from base a bridge Sable masoned Argent having one arch, in chief a Neolithic monument Gules, Mural crown Argent with three visible towers (village rank) and white scroll with inscription in black initials "FREGUESIA DE MURÇA".
Meaning:
The Neolithic monument, the so called "sow of Murça", also appears in the arms of Murça municipality.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 6 Jan 2016

Flag and arms published in the official journal Diário da República: III Série on 4 June 2001
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 6 Jan 2016

Presentation of Murça

Murça Commune is one of the seven communes of the Murça municipality (q.v.); it had 2136 inhabitants in 2011 and covers 14.6 km².
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 6 Jan 2016

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