Torres Vedras Municipality (Portugal)

Concelho de Torres Vedras, Distrito de Lisboa

Last modified: 2014-10-18 by klaus-michael schneider
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• About the Flag
• Version without Coat of Arms
• Presentation of Torres Vedras

• Torres Vedras Communes
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• Page about Torres Vedras 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 centred on a plain white field.
António Martins-Tuválkin, 30 Nov 1998

Gules, a castle argent, flagged and roofed of the same, with port and windows black, under an eschuteon of Portugal ancient between two stars argent. Mural crown argent, with five towers (city rank) and white scroll with black initials reading "CIDADE DE TORRES VEDRAS" (Torres Vedras city).
António Martins-Tuválkin, 30 Nov 1998

Meaning:

António Martins-Tuválkin,

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 Torres Vedras

Torres Vedras is located in the Lisboa District, old province of Estremadura, covering 406 km² in 13 communes with 67 420 inhabitants in 1998.
António Martins-Tuválkin, 30 Nov 1998

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