Santa Marta de Penaguião Municipality (Portugal)

Last modified: 2010-09-19 by antónio martins
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• About the flag
• Version without the coat of arms
• Presentation of Santa Marta de Penaguião SMP

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• Page about the municipal flag and coat of arms of Santa Marta de Penaguião at Sérgio Horta’s website (in Portuguese).
  reported by Jorge Candeias, 29 Feb 1999
• Page about Santa Marta de Penaguião 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 quite typical portuguese municipal flag, with the coat of arms centered on a quartely background (town rank) of green and purple. This flag and arms were adopted and published in the official journal Diário do Governo : I Série in 1934.02.01.
António Martins, 14 Oct 2007

The arms are Or a bunch of grapes purpure leaved Vert and stemmed Sable between two olive branches Vert crossed per saltire and stemmed and fruited Sable. Mural crown argent with four visible towers (town rank) and white scroll reading in black upper case letters "Vila de Santa Marta de Penaguião".
António Martins, 14 Oct 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 Santa Marta de Penaguião

Santa Marta de Penaguião municipality had 8569 inhabitants in 2001, and it consists of 10 communes, covering 69,98 km². It is part of Vila Real District, traditional province and 1999 ref. adm. region Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, C.C.R. / NUTS II Norte, and NUTS III Douro.

"Santa Marta" means Saint Martha and "penaguião" can be analysed to mean something like "he-eagle cliff". These elements are not found in the arms, however, which concentrate in the usual county fair lookout, showing off local agricultural produce.

António Martins, 14 Oct 2007

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