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Reguengos de Monsaraz Municipality (Portugal)

Concelho de Reguengos de Monsaraz, Distrito de Évora

Last modified: 2014-08-02 by klaus-michael schneider
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[Reguengos de Monsaraz municipality] 2:3 image by Sérgio Horta and Klaus-Michael Schneider, 17 July 2014
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About the Flag

It is a fairly typical Portuguese municipal flag, with the coat of arms centred on a yellow and purple gyronny (city rank) background. The current flag has the usual modifications: gyronny of yellow and purple, the shield remained the same, the mural crown got five visible towers and the scroll's inscription turned to "MUNICÍPIO DE REGUENGOS DE MONSARAZ".
Source: this webpage
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 17 July 2014

Former coat of arms

[Reguengos de Monsaraz municipality CoA] image by Sérgio Horta, 25 Mar 2007

The arms are Argent between two bunches of grapes Purple leaved Vert a cork oak Vert trunked and eradicated Sable and fruited Or and debarked Gules. Mural crown argent with four visible towers (town rank) and white scroll reading in black upper case letters "VILA DE REGUENGOS DE MONSARAZ. ""Reguengo"" means ""crown land"" (i.e. royal property), though this is not shown in the arms, atypically so.
António Martins-Tuválkin, 25 Mar 2007

Flag and arms adopted and published in the official journal Diário do Governo : I Série in 1940.04.08.
António Martins-Tuválkin, 25 Mar 2007

Former flag

[Reguengos de Monsaraz municipality] 2:3 image by Sérgio Horta, 25 Mar 2007
It is a fairly typical Portuguese municipal flag, with the coat of arms centred on a yellow and purple quarterly (town rank) background.
António Martins-Tuválkin, 25 Mar 2007

Version without Coat of Arms

[Reguengos de Monsaraz municipality plain] 2:3 image by António Martins-Tuválkin, Apr 2010

Presentation of Reguengos de Monsaraz

Reguengos de Monsaraz municipality had 11 382 inhabitants in 2001 and consists of 5 communes covering 461,22 km². It is part of Évora District, traditional province Alto Alentejo, 1999 ref. adm. region and C.C.R. / NUTS II Alentejo, and NUTS III Alentejo Central.
Reguengos de Monsaraz was seat of a municipality since 1838, when the seat changed from Monsaraz, but definitely since 1851, perhaps because Monsaraz had already been a town. Reguengos de Monsaraz was upgraded to a town in 1840 and to a city on 9 December 2004. The flag was changed probably between 2007 and 2011.
António Martins-Tuválkin, 25 Mar 2007

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