Santo Tirso Municipality (Portugal)

Last modified: 2014-06-29 by klaus-michael schneider
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• About the flag
• Version without the coat of arms
• Previous flag
• Presentation of Santo Tirso STS

• Communes of Santo Tirso
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• Page about the municipal flag and coat of arms of Santo Tirso at Sérgio Horta’s website (in Portuguese).
  reported by Jorge Candeias, 29 Feb 1999
• Page about Santo Tirso 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 fairily typical portuguese municipal flag, with the coat of arms centered on a plain yellow background. These arms and flag were adopted upon the upgrade of the municipality seat to city status in 1985.08.14 (though apparently not made official yet) and are a trivial change of the former arms.
António Martins, 14 Mar 2007

Coat of arms

The arms are Azure a Lion Or statant and holding a crozier of the Same and on counterchief a fess wavy Argent semee of wavelets of the First. Mural crown argent with five visible towers (city rank) and white scroll reading in black upper case letters "Santo Tirso".
António Martins, 14 Mar 2007

Version without the coat of arms

Plain (monocolored) portuguese subnational flags are not allowed to have armless variations: plain flags always carry the coat of arms.
Jorge Candeias, 18 Jul 1999

Previous flag

The previous, town rank, flag and arms, were adopted and published in the official journal Diário do Governo : II Série in 1951.01.22. These included the usual town attributes, four visible crown towers.
António Martins, 14 Mar 2007

Version without the coat of arms

Plain (monocolored) portuguese subnational flags are not allowed to have armless variations: plain flags always carry the coat of arms.
Jorge Candeias, 18 Jul 1999

Presentation of Santo Tirso

Santo Tirso municipality had 72 396 inhabitants in 2001 and consists of 24 communes covering 135,31 km². It is part of Porto District, traditional province Douro Litoral, 1999 ref. adm. region Entre Douro e Minho, current C.C.R. / NUTS II Norte, and NUTS III Ave.
António Martins, 14 Mar 2007

Municipality of Santo Tirso had recently its western half made the new municipality of Trofa.
António Martins, 14 Jul 1999

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