Celorico de Basto Municipality (Portugal)

Last modified: 2010-07-10 by antónio martins
Keywords: celorico de basto | coat of arms (castle) | castle (black) | grape bunches: 2 | grapes (purple) | waves: 3 |
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• Page about the municipal flag and coat of arms of Celorico de Basto at Sérgio Horta’s website (in Portuguese).
  reported by Jorge Candeias, 29 Feb 1999
• Page about Celorico de Basto 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 quartered background (meaning town rank) of white and black. Arms and flag approved by law of 1948.02.24, a relatively late date.
António Martins, 01 Jun 2006

The coat of arms is argent between two bunches of grapes fruited purpure and leaved and stemmed vert a castle sable open and litten of the field and on a counterchief azure wavy a wavy wavy fess argent. Mural crown argent with four visible towers (town rank) and white scroll reading in black upper case letters "Celorico de Basto".
António Martins, 01 Jun 2006

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

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