Carrazeda de Ansiães Municipality (Portugal)

Last modified: 2010-08-27 by antónio martins
Keywords: carrazeda de ansiães | coat of arms: grapes | grape bunch | wheat ears: 4 | olive branches: 2 | waves: 3 | waves: 5 |
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• About the flag
• Version without the coat of arms
• Presentation of Carrazeda de Ansiães CRZ
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• Page about the municipal flag and coat of arms of Carrazeda de Ansiães at Sérgio Horta’s website (in Portuguese).
  reported by Jorge Candeias, 29 Feb 1999
• Page about Carrazeda de Ansiães 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 green background. Flag and arms adopted and published in the official journal Diário do Governo : I Série in 1935.04.27.
António Martins, 05 Mar 2007

The arms are Argent a bunch of grapes fruited Purple and leaved Vert above two branches of olive with their stems crossed and four ears of wheat like wise all Vert and in counter chief three wavy fesses Azure. Mural crown argent with four visible towers (town rank) and white scroll reading in black upper case letters "Vila de Carrazeda de Ansiães".
António Martins, 05 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 Carrazeda de Ansiães

Carrazeda de Ansiães municipality had 7642 inhabitants in 2001 and consists of 19 communes covering 280,91 km². It is part of Bragança District, traditional province and 1999 ref. adm. region Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, C.C.R. / NUTS II Norte, and NUTS III Douro.
António Martins, 05 Mar 2007

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