Last modified: 2014-10-23 by klaus-michael schneider
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![[Ourém municipality r-w]](../images/p/pt-oum.gif) 2:3 image by António Martins-Tuválkin, 7 Mar 1999 |
![[Ourém municipality w-r]](../images/p/pt-oum2.gif) 2:3 image by António Martins-Tuválkin, and Klaus-Michael Schneider, 23 Oct 2014 |
It is a fairly typical Portuguese municipal flag, with the coat of arms centred on a field gyronny of eight, red and white (left image above).
António Martins-Tuválkin, 7 Mar 1999
Visiting Ourém on 26 September 2013, I spotted a white and red version in the local fire brigade station (right image above).
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 23 Oct 2014
![[Ourém municipality CoA]](../images/p/pt-oum).gif)
image by Sérgio Horta,
The arms are Argent, an eagle Gules, armed Sable, tongued Gules and gorged with a crown Argent, he is holding an inescutcheon charged with Portugal ancient (modern version — displaying five bezants in each escutcheon). Mural crown Argent with five visible towers (city rank) and white scroll reading in black upper case letters. "CIDADE DE OURÉM.
António Martins-Tuválkin, 7 Mar 1999
![[Ourém municipality]](../images/p/pt-oum1.gif)
2:3 image by Klaus-Michael Schneider,
It is a fairly typical Portuguese municipal flag, with the coat of arms centred on a plain red field (according to Sérgio Horta).
According to Sérgio Horta the old coat of arms had the same shield but different mural crown and scroll. The crown had four towers (town rank) and the scroll had the inscription "VILA NOVA DE OURÉM. The eagle was armed Sable and tongued Gules and was gorged with a crown Or (in fact a double coronet). That was exactly, what I spotted in 2013.
Old Coat of Arms
Sérgio Horta, 23 Oct 2001 and Klaus-Michael Schneider, 23 Oct 2014
Version without Coat of Arms
![[Ourém municipality plain]](../images/p/pt-oum0.gif)
2:3 image by António Martins-Tuválkin, Apr 2010
Flag and arms adopted and published in Diário da República: III Série on 19 June 1992, previous flag and arms adopted and published in Diário do Governo : I Série on 1 May 1936
António Martins-Tuválkin,
Oure’m is one of the municipalities of the Santarém district and of the old province of Ribatejo, covering 420 km km² in 18 communes where live 40 360 inhabitants (1992 data). Until recently, this city was a town, known as Vila Nova de Ourém.
António Martins-Tuválkin, 7 Mar 1999
![[Ourém unofficial flag]](../images/p/pt-oum!.gif)
2:3 image by António Martins-Tuválkin, 22 Aug 1999
My source, a friend’s friend some years ago, was not very interested in flags — but as a local she should have minimal reliability. The flag was described as being «blue and green with the logo on it» and I got all interested, assuming that "logo" would mean here "coat of arms" and a portuguese municipal flag background of green and blue would be something noteworthy (back then I didn’t knew the official flag). However, this source was quite insisting that there was a wider white stripe in the middle with the logo (not the coat of arms) on it.
António Martins, 22 Aug 1999
It is interesting to note that, in this almost unique case where the official coat of arms uses a charge seldom in portuguese civic heraldry, while the (unofficial) logo uses three motives almost ubiquous in portuguese civic heraldry: castle, grapes, and wave…
António Martins, 15 Aug 2001
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